Mar 27, 2022 | Contemporary
Guadalupe Maravilla, Luz y fuerza Installation at MoMA, Photograph by Virginia Wagner I attended Guadalupe Maravilla’s exhibitions of sculptures and sound baths in Socrates Sculpture Park this September and at MoMA in November. MoMA’s exhibit Luz y fuerza is up...
May 5, 2021 | Alone Together, Contemporary, Medieval
The world is tentacled. Take a trio of disparate inspirations that helped me wait out the quarantine as I sheltered in place. Besides my wife and children, and painting and writing, three seemingly unrelated gifts—the genius of a singer, the bravery of an eight-armed...
Nov 22, 2020 | Contemporary
I’m an oil painter and I try to be interested in social media, I really do. But I’ve got a tiny problem with monitoring local online real estate. (I could stop any day, really!) Red hearts applied to photographs of paintings don’t thrill me like scrolling though...
Oct 28, 2020 | Contemporary, Modern
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.” – Edgar Degas The crucial words here may be “no longer.” This implies that Degas knew at one point, or thought he knew, a way of working that he subsequently came to question. This...
Sep 20, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
I get up very early in the morning. Feed the cats, fish and tortoises. Make my first cup of coffee. With my cup in hand, I tour my “collection” of art acquired over the years. I read somewhere that Frick would wake in the middle of the night to roam his collection...
Aug 27, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary
The material act of painting is, for me, a conversation with the past, that contends with the material present (it has to be made), and future — all the possibilities each painting opens up. I am critical of these simultaneous understandings, their complicated...
