Aug 15, 2020 | Alone Together, Contemporary, Uncategorized
I’ve noticed in myself and among my friends that keeping yourself locked up at home encourages every kind of rumination, especially on the condition of being alone and what it was like to be around other people and when that might happen again. So it’s not surprising...
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...
