Landscape — Page 4

Gregory Amenoff: Mind's Eye

New York Sun Arts

Xico Greenwald reviews Gregory Amenoff: New Paintings at Alexandre Gallery, New York, on view through October 29, 2016. Greenwald writes that Amenoff's "landscape-based abstractions teeming with organic shapes that suggest trees, caves, plant cells, soil, sky and water. But the forms here are not based on careful observation of the natural world. Rather, these are

Ying Li: Interview

Painting Perceptions

Larry Groff interviews painter Ying Li on the occasion of her exhibition Geographies at Haverford College, on view through October 7, 2016. Li comments: "I think these two are really one thing; they’re so tied together, looking out and then looking in on the canvas. I try to make that switch as short as possible

Gregory Amenoff @ Alexandre Gallery

Artdeal

Addison Parks blogs about the work of Gregory Amenoff on the occasion of Amenoff's exhibition of new paintings at Alexandre Gallery, New York, on view through October 29, 2016. Parks writes that "[Amenoff's paintings] are a noble quest, a torch taken up from the likes of the Arthur Doves of this world, along with his

John Walker at Alexandre Gallery

John Walker's recent paintings, on view at Alexandre Gallery, continue to revitalize abstraction through intense, prolonged immersion in nature.

Ying Li: Foreign Terrain

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

Justice to Pissarro

Cezanne himself was right in maintaining, “We are all derived from Pissarro.”

Bernard Chaet (1924 - 2012)

Best known as the author of the seminal book The Art of Drawing, Chaet influenced thousands of artists as a teacher and a painter.

Dazzling Darkness

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