Instructor news, a history painting for the twenty-first century, and more
The question that seems to be posed in this exhibition is whether the Lyme Art Colony’s interest in landscape, light, and color can be enjoyed at face value, or is complicit in whitewashing the area’s history.
While a good abstract painting is an event on the canvas, I strive in my figurative work to do the same.
People will always need something created by the hand of an individual, which no one else can do and which offers a unique experience when one is actually in front of it. So a work of art becomes more special, more necessary as so much else is turned into a few gigabytes flashing across a screen.
For about a week I was hospitalized due to overwork, the whole time laying in bed, thinking about my next piece.
Instructor news, a Seeds of the League update, and a glimpse of the Art Students League before the American Fine Arts Society building
I want to make my work and feel connected to, at least, some people, sometimes. The process is the point.
Q: What do you do when you are feeling uninspired? A: Uninspired? Do something I think is awful and not give a shit.
Solo shows for James Little, Bruce Dorfman, and Knox Martin, a new book on ASL alumnus Emilio Sanchez, a Seeds of the League update, and more
I used to devote days on end to a Velázquez, Houdon, Vermeer, or Corot. I couldn’t say which I looked at the most. Yet for the last twenty years, I find myself more captivated by the natural world as well as by the built environment.
An exhibition of works created in the pandemic that testify to the indomitable nature of artists and to art’s ability to communicate a spectrum of emotion that may be difficult to convey in any other modality.
In this time of “great pause,” I am seeing a flourishing of creativity. People are responding to the pandemic in innovative ways. I am suddenly seeing all kinds of new models for cultural production.