Jul 10, 2017 | Contemporary, Modern
Jack Levine, Welcome Home, 1946, Oil on canvas, 40 x 60 inches I’ve been thinking recently about Jack Levine. How as a young artist I loved his work. My dad used to say, when people would see my work hanging in our house, “My son’s copying Jack Levine.”...
Apr 15, 2017 | Contemporary
Gerard Garouste, Le théâtre de Don Quichotte, 2012, Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 102 3/8 inches Gerard Garouste, one of the most famous contemporary French artists you have never heard of, has created an oeuvre of jarring and enigmatic paintings. A prolific artist, he...
Mar 31, 2017 | Contemporary
Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as Hiveminder, 2016, Oil on canvas, 60 x 84 inches The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end when I learned that Julie Heffernan’s LSU Museum of Art exhibit would be titled When the Water Rises. Just a few short months ago, an...
Mar 9, 2017 | Contemporary
Mike Cloud, Dialogue of Growth, 2014, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 30.5 inches There are many things I admire about the painter Mike Cloud. Besides Cloud’s bigheartedness, his work is funny, unrelenting, energetic, remorseless, and bold. 1.) Cloud’s paintings are...
Feb 14, 2017 | Contemporary, PoP Highlights
Louis Sloan, Frost Valley, 1995, Oil on canvas, 54 x 70 inches The snow would be waist high and the temperature freezing or below. Lou would be Eskimo-like with his easel and brushes ready for action. This was a dedicated landscape painter, one of the best on the...
Dec 5, 2016 | Contemporary
Billy Al Bengston, Gearbox, 1961, Oil on canvas, 36 x 34 inches “Stud”, an exhibition of Billy Al Bengston’s paintings at Venus over Manhattan Gallery this past November, afforded a unique opportunity to see the legendary West Coast painter in New York City. It is...
