Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
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Virginia Wagner on Doron Langberg
We know that, under those rough, hasty marks, the scene exists in all of the intricacies of life.
Adam Cvijanovic on Thomas Cole
He was not a particularly remarkable painter. There is no dazzling brushstroke or consummate gesture. They are paintings that get the job done and punch the clock.
Carrie Moyer on Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray, Southern California, 1976, Oil on canvas. 6’ 7 1/4″ x 6′ 3 1/2″ Museum of Modern Art, New York NY For the past year or so I’ve been thinking again about Elizabeth Murray. I started following her paintings in the early 1980s, after...Recent Articles
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.
Altoon Sultan on Piero di Cosimo
There I was, standing in front of this beautiful, tender, poignant painting, unable to stop weeping.
Michelle Stuart on Maya Art
They are simple yet complex, erotic yet spiritual, wildly designed yet perfectly rendered to fit both the scale of the object and the place in architecture.
Between Her Garden and the Studio: Jessica Stockholder on Laura Letinsky, Part II
Like art, the garden represents an insertion of personal idiosyncratic thought into a campus landscape designed to represent power, prestige, order, unity and corporate structure.
Between Her Garden and the Studio: Jessica Stockholder on Laura Letinsky, Part I
The gap between gazing through the window that turned the yard into something picturesque, and being in the yard with dirt under my fingernails, can be understood as one subject of my work.
Painting is Undead: The Iconography of Anne Imhof, By Dil Hildebrand
…when performing actions they do so with zombie-like disaffection like flies stunned by a bug lamp, jerking sporadically into and out of states of repose.