Feb 18, 2020 | Contemporary, Uncategorized
Alice Neel, Isabetta, 1934/35, Oil on canvas, 43 x 26 inches In some dark times a few years past, I was blowing in the wind like a tumbleweed. Fresh out of graduate school, feeling more vulnerable and insecure than I had before entering, I found myself in a cold...
Dec 5, 2019 | Contemporary
Chuta Kimura, Landscape at Pagoma in Provence,1984, 31.5 x 31.5 inches, Collection of Mr. Akira Yoshida, London. At times when I feel lost, stuck, or unmotivated, I go to my art books and pull out my heroes. I’m like a kid feeling encouraged by their faded pulp comics...
Nov 23, 2019 | Contemporary
Henry Taylor, I became . . . , 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 71 7/8 x 71 3/4 inches I had never been to the Venice Biennale before. I expected it to be like any art fair, a mild cacophony of work stuck up on walls creating visual white noise that prevents me from properly...
Oct 23, 2019 | Contemporary, Uncategorized
Benjamin Edwards, Ramble, 2003, Lithography, ed. 30, 26 1/4 by 35 1/4 inches, Printed at Tandem Press In the spring of 2003, my printmaking class at the University of Wisconsin took a field trip to Tandem Press, on the Madison’ east side. At the behest of our...
Oct 13, 2019 | Contemporary
Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 1955, 75 1/4” x 31 1/2 x 8”, MoMA, NYC A fantastical take on a fantastical work: in the following riff on Robert Rauschenberg’s bold, brilliant Bed there’s far less analysis and direct eyeballing than in my previous articles for Painters on...
Oct 4, 2019 | Contemporary, Uncategorized
Martin Kippenberger, Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1988, oil on canvas, 94 1/2 x 78 3/4 in., Private collection, © Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne In February of 2017 when I returned to painting, a particular work by Martin Kippenberger arrived...
