Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
PoP Highlights
Melissa Meyer Remembers Jean Dubuffet at the Jeu de Paume, 1991
These paintings by Dubuffet are currently up at Pace Gallery!
Matt Bollinger on Gregory Gillespie
In Self-Portrait on Bed, made in 1973-74, Gregory Gillespie paints himself as a not-quite young man, some years older than I am as I write this. He sits on a mattress that sags toward the floor.
Doron Langberg on Jess
When I saw “The Enamored Mage” in person I was completely transfixed. Painted with heavy impasto, the protrusions of paint gush out of the surface, some following the image, some swelling under it.
Recent Articles
Brendan Carroll on Kamrooz Aram
He has skirted being defined by tradition, modernism or post-modernism by replacing theory and ideology with personal expression.
Tom Levy on Hans Hartung
But with Hartung it felt different. He did what I am currently trying to do.
Claire Scherzinger on Kelly Richardson
…Her work is a portal for the viewer to step into as the room transforms into a theatre of the mind.
Alan Feltus on Susan Yanero
…her cast of characters played out dramas on a stage that is both circus and life as she knows it…
Elizabeth Neel on Francis Bacon
Regarding the Other in horror and finding that Other in myself, it’s impossible to look at “Study of a Baboon” and not be sucked into a vortex of abjection and a struggle for empathy.
Construction and Erasure: Matt Bollinger on Narrative in Catherine Murphy and David Byrd
While both Murphy and Byrd use form as a means to make narrative works, they also create paintings that exist on a spectrum between solidity and erasure.