I feel this show of my paintings represents a personal revelation—and a kind of public exposure, too. It is risky to present work that has been developed privately and held close for so long.
In Christopher Gallego’s drawings, it is as if you are underwater, and all of the usual sounds, shuffles, and animation of life goes silent, and you find yourself in this sensorially pared-down but visually heightened world.
For painting landscapes en plein air, Frank Vincent DuMond taught his students a method of pre-mixing color strings in stepped values, moving from light to the dark value by creating color “notes” analogous to musical keys.
Kollwitz’s art was both a response to the suffering of others and a processing of personal experience. For Kollwitz, character born of hardship was indistinguishable from—lo, was the necessary source of—beauty.
Notable work by students in the classes of Jeff Buckland, Cliff Dufton, Hak Sul Lee, James Little, Fran O’Neill, Ephraim Rubenstein, Dana Parlier, Wendy Shalen, Anne Stanner & Natsuki Takauji