Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
PoP Highlights
Trenton Doyle Hancock on Kerry James Marshall
The cool confident stare of Marshall’s “Nat Turner” speaks directly to me as a painter, saying to accept without regret the task at hand and rewrite the master script of possibility.
Barkley Hendricks on Louis Sloan
The snow would be waist high and the temperature freezing or below. Lou would be Eskimo-like…
Carolee Schneemann on Arthur B. Carles
How did I manage to get to the great museum on the parkway, perched like a castle above the two rivers?
Recent Articles
Lara Allen on Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Die Ordnung der Engel’
It once hung in the Chicago Art Institute but now is a blurry electrical field full of crackles and pops behind my eyes.
MaryKate Maher on Marlene Dumas and Maja Ruznic
It’s red like memory is red or how, when you close your eyes because the sun is too bright, your eyelids create that deep red shadow.
Virginia Wagner on Guadalupe Maravilla: Hearing from the Inside Out
Some invite you to climb onto their backs like beasts in ancient stories. Some invite you to kneel at their altar of corals and hanging wax hides.
Barry Nemett on a Random Trinity
A trio of disparate inspirations that helped me wait out the quarantine as I sheltered in place.
Elizabeth Johnson on Celia Reisman
Her aloof houses are challenging, seem to have their backs turned to me, the viewer, and transform me into an interloper.
Lincoln Perry on Frank Auerbach and Marino Marini
This wasn’t a decapitated head, but a self-sufficient object, as autonomous as a meteor.