Jul 1, 2019 | Contemporary
Paul Caranicas, Ozone 46 (Mickey’s Gun Shop), 2018, Oil and acrylic on wood, 10 x 50 inches The balance between content and execution in the paintings of Paul Caranicas is a playground for his humorous and sophisticated sensibility. A wry nonchalance belies the saga...
May 17, 2019 | Contemporary
Karen Kliminik, me — I forgot the wire cutters getting the wire cutters from the car to break into stonehenge, 1982, 1998, water soluble oil color on canvas, 20 x 16 inches I learned about Karen Kliminik’s work in 2000 from Philadelphia curator Sid Sachs,...
Apr 17, 2019 | Contemporary
Andrea Belag, Sunday Painter, 2018, Oil on linen, 66 x 72 inches I’ve known Andrea Belag for 25 years, since she taught my second-year painting class in college. We found out then that we both like talking on the phone and painting in daylight. I had forgotten...
Apr 7, 2019 | Contemporary, Modern
Louise Bourgeois, The Birth, 2007, Gouache on paper, 23 1/2 × 18 inches The word birth suggests a physical act, a material process, whereas creation engages the notion of manifesting something into the world without it necessarily connoting physicality. These...
Jan 23, 2019 | Contemporary
Brenda Goodman, Impending, 2018, Oil on Wood, 80 x 72 inches Looking back at my work over a 53-year span, I sometimes think that I could do this or that passage of a particular painting better now, but I have never gone back into a piece once it was done. I always...
Jan 10, 2019 | Contemporary
Folkert De Jong, The New Deal, 2012, Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam and pallet What constitutes a painting? Is it possible to create a “painting” that occupies space, has actual volume and is made with unconventional materials? These questions point to an...
