Jul 19, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
Steve DiBenedetto, REworked, 2019-2020, Oil on linen, 25 x 19 inches In April, John Yau wrote a piece for Hyperallergic on Steve DiBenedetto’s work during isolation: “What Do Artists Need to Make Their Work?” Everything looked fantastic in situ. I wanted more and,...
Jul 12, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
Raoul Middleman, Recent sketch The Pandemic has shut down museums and for the time being we’ve lost that kind of first hand visceral experience we get looking at art. I already miss the oomph and goop of oil paint escaping from the pores of the canvas: brushed,...
Jul 1, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
Much has changed since I wrote a short Art in Isolation piece for Paintings on Paintings. Now, not only are we in a global pandemic that will change our lives forever, we witnessed the callous murder of George Floyd on video and Black Lives Matter mushroomed into a...
Jun 26, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
I wrote this letter to Julie on May 23rd. It represents my frame of mind during the first months of quarantine, when the most difficult problems I was encountering were being able to buy what we needed and having to stay away from other people. On May 25th, George...
Jun 21, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
What art are you looking at during this time? How has your studio practice shifted? A month ago, PoP sent me these questions. It’s taken me a while to sort out my answer, because “this time” isn’t just now. Four years of political pounding has wrecked my studio...
Jun 11, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary, PoP Highlights
Peter Williams, The Death of George Floyd, 2020, Oil on canvas, 48 in. x 60 in. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES. Making things allows one to be a member of a group: of ideas, forms, awareness, sensitivities, none of which is ever in isolation....
