John Wilson spent decades wielding charcoal and bronze to insist on Black dignity in a culture determined to erase it, creating art so confrontational that his 1952 lynching mural couldn’t be shown publicly in America even seventy years later.
Euan Uglow found that oxymoronic sweet spot to which Degas aspired: to be famous and unknown.
Art school was for me a dreamlike place that I never imagined existed, because it was full of people who, like me, were just trying as hard as they could, all day, to make the best picture possible.
Art in general isn’t nearly as fun or powerful in this age. You could say there’s a positive side to all the access we have to art, as well as the exposure, as artists, we can get outside of the traditional structures. But I wonder if it’s worth what we gave up.
Notable works from the classes of Dan Gheno and Gregg Kreutz
Ephraim Rubenstein is one of four painters exhibiting work in The Naked & The Nude: Contemporary Masters of the Human Form.
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Jerry Weiss Solo Show at John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts
Sep 4, 2017, 10:23 AM
Twenty paintings and drawings by Jerry Weiss will be on view in People and Places.
Max Ginsburg’s solo exhibition The Realities of Our Times opens on September 24, 2016.
Steven Assael is one of twenty painters selected to exhibit in a survey of realistic painting at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
How to understand flesh is the most absorbing and complex endeavor I know.