Mar 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
April Gornik, Light After the Storm, 2012, Oil on linen, 78″ x 104″ My brain puts the paintings of April Gornik together as landscapes; I mean they have all of the obvious indicators of landscape. But, as I dig further, I see repeated complex structural...
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...
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 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...
Jul 5, 2018 | Contemporary, Modern, Uncategorized
Maria Lassnig, Woman Laocoon (Woman Laocoön), 1976. Oil on canvas, 193 x 127 cm While researching paintings of snakes for a recent body of work, I was reminded of Maria Lassnig’s painting entitled Woman Laocoön, 1976. For nearly seventy years, Lassnig, an Austrian...
May 28, 2018 | Contemporary, Uncategorized
Hans Hartung, T1983-E20, 1983, Acrylic on canvas, 55 7/8 x 70 7/8 inches Hans Hartung was born in 1904 in Leipzig Germany; he died in 1989 in Antibes in the south of France. I recently had the pleasure of a studio visit by friend and peer David Ebony. Besides giving...
