Abstraction — Page 16

Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann interviews artist John Bunker about his work.

Goodman explores powerfully personal narratives animated by a visual language that moves that moves freely between abstraction and representation.

Ying Li's recent paintings, on view at the College of Staten Island, fuse natural phenomena and the act of painting.

Geoffrey Dorfman discusses the life and work of painter Milton Resnick.

Three artists exhibiting side-by-side at the Painting Center are presenting refreshingly straightforward abstractions.

Gisholt paints timeless, poetic worlds where the everyday and the grand tradition of painting merge.

Interview with painter Paul Behnke, curator of the exhibition Eight Painters at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York.

James Panero reviews an exhibition of recent paintings by Joan Thorne at Sideshow Gallery, on view through November 10, 2013. Panero writes: "One of abstract painting’s earliest interests was the depiction of sound... Joan Thorne explores this legacy with a finely tuned suite of work.Like the recent sculptures of Frank Stella, which visualized Scarlatti, Thorne’s

John Bunker interviews painter Frank Bowling on the occasion of the exhibition Frank Bowling: The Map Paintings 1967-1971 at Hales Gallery, London, on view through November 23, 2013. Bowing discusses his early figurative work and his transition to abstract painting. Asked about the orgin of the Map Paintings, he comments: "I was just laying the

Six abstract artists push out the edge of the painting. The work, verging on sculpture, clearly comes from a painter's mind.

DeShawn Dumas prefers materials that possess troubled pasts in addition to their aesthetic qualities.

Carrie Moyer describes her process, which begins with small black and white collages, and discusses her influences - including Miro's The Farm (1921–1922) and paintings by Christian Schad and Alexej von Jawlensky.

Courtney J. Martin writes about the paintings of Frank Bowling on the occasion of the exhibition Frank Bowling: Paintings 1967 – 2012 at Spanierman Modern, New York, through April 20, 2013. Martin writes that Bowling's "poured paintings were often a combination of action painting and compositional devices, like vertical lines, that were used by the

As our ability to sense individual moments is being destroyed, George Hofmann paints what amounts to a collection of instants.

In his Theory of Colors, Goethe observes that “the greatest brightness short of dazzling acts near the greatest darkness."

Michael Rutherford discovers a great trailer for the documentary film Sean Scully: The Bloody Canvas, produced by Yellow Asylum Films for RTE, directed by Alan Gilsenan with photography direction by Richard Kendrick. The film mixes audio interview with footage of Scully working in his studio. As the film begins, Scully remarks: "In my kind of

The new exhibition Re-Generation “traces the regeneration of thought in painting and art education."

A new video on the life and work of painter Julian Stanczak.

A student of Hans Hofmann, Perle Fine’s artistic circle included the most accomplished New York School and European painters.

In a recently posted audio recording, Milton Resnick speaks about painting and his work.