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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.
Kyle Staver on Janice Nowinski
The staccato of the surface gives me the mph of the wind on the beach that day.
Kyle Hackett on Du Bois' Double Consciousness and the Freedom in Portraiture
I have spent about a decade studying W.E.B Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness: the sense of looking at one's self through the lens of others.
Barbara Friedman on Merging and the “Extreme Middle”
He makes the “I” out to be “a resting zone … a meeting place.”
Camilla Fallon on the Intimate in Isolation
I thought of the Intimists... and how they make ordinary objects, including cats, absolutely transcendent.
Maria Porges on Looking for the Lodestar
I have everything I need, except the lodestar that has gotten me this far, in a life that has revolved around art.
Anne Harris on Nowinski and Williams: Looking In and Out
These two artists represent my dilemma: private vs. public, personal vs. political.
Peter Williams on George Floyd and Art Not in Isolation
I never felt in isolation; there was a life I needed to address.
Ellen Harvey on the Disappointed Tourist | Art in Isolation
It was intended as an exploration of nostalgia, to create a conversation across many different types of loss.
Judy Glantzman on Obituaries and Shadows | Art in Isolation
I have been painting portraits from obituaries on poured plaster/acrylic plaques since the pandemic began.
Letters from Helen O'Leary | Art in Isolation
While googling 'how to fertilize tree peonies and will they grow in the shade' I for a minute linger on the Washington Post main page and get enough in two seconds to know the world is bad.
Haley Josephs on Alice Neel
I felt the awkward little girl in me stirring, a sense of vulnerability recognized and transformed into a different kind of power by this painting.
Mariel Herring on Chuta Kimura
Imagine if de Kooning and Matisse painted a landscape together, and maybe Bonnard was their professor/mentor? That’s ya boi Kimura.
Lydia Pettit on Henry Taylor's "I became . . ."
Overall there was chaos in his figure, strokes sometimes lining up with the form, and sometimes going against the logic of the body.