Robert Neffson is exhibiting in Cityscape Paintings: Part 1.
“I’ve found that the meditative process of layering the thin, delicate brushstrokes that make up the surface of a tempera painting has the effect of imparting an intimate stillness to even the most active composition.”
Two current exhibitions feature notable painters of the urban scene, Richard Estes and John Dubrow.
The ability to remove the cerebral assumptions of what you think you know and just respond honestly can be key to developing authentic work.
In New York: New Paintings by John A. Parks opens at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel on March 27, 2015.
An ode to artistic friendship and the serendipity of plein-air cityscape painting.
The cityscape painter needs a thicker skin than other kinds of painters.
You have to make a choice each time you draw. It is striking how different artists will be attracted to different landscape elements. That is one of the exciting aspects of landscape drawing and painting.
Circadian Rhythms of the City is a solo exhibition of Joseph Peller’s paintings, works on paper, and sculpture that opens at ACA Galleries on March 13.
Ephraim Rubenstein’s gouache cityscapes will be part of the group show Seeing the City: Artists’ Views of New York City, at the George Billis Gallery (521 West 26th Street), July 23–August 17, 2013.