Group show: Long Island City Winter Show, Diego Salazar Art Gallery (21–25 44th Avenue, LIC), December 6, 2012–March 30, 2013.
Vortex, a recently completed painting, will be included in Sharon Sprung’s solo show at Gallery Henoch slated for the fall of 2013.
Timothy J. Clark’s solo exhibition, The Artist and His Process, will be on view at the Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA), November 4–February 17, 2013.
Solo Show: Romancing New York: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen, South Street Seaport Museum (12 Fulton Street, NYC), September 24, 2012–January 5, 2013.
An artist makes art, and he demands the credentials of art. He’s investigated art, and he knows what art is. It’s not anatomy; it’s not proportions; it’s not brilliant execution; it’s not photographic likeness; it’s not journalism; it’s not individual pain. It is opening up the elements that make those pieces of art perpetually fresh, timeless.
What factors make a painting worthy of the term “great”? A video presentation by painters David A. Leffel and Sherrie McGraw about “abstract realism.”
Mary Beth McKenzie has a newly-designed website: marybethmckenzie.com
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Gloria in Excelsis Deo Catalogue of Frank Mason’s Interpretation of Christ
Dec 25, 2012, 9:00 AM
Now available: Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Frank Mason’s Life of Christ, a collection of sixty-eight paintings and 139 preparatory drawings and studies by Frank Mason that interpret the life of Christ.
There are some paintings I have thought about a lot and with which I have long relationships. The recently rediscovered Velázquez Portrait of a Man at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of them.
How to paint the city: Wander around a lot. The more aimless, the better. Buy a good camera and always carry it with you. Take many, many photos. When wandering look for the common, the unexciting, the ordinary. Take note of these scenes knowing that you will make them extraordinary. Look for the contrasts: bright…