If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a color must speak volumes.
There are some paintings in the history of art that break free, just as some human beings do, from the confines of the particular little world into which they were born. They leave home—they escape from the tradition in which they were formed, and which seem at first...
What do The Beach Boys have to do with painting?
Does an audience complete an artwork?
Behind the scenes creating The Rocks of Rhode Island paintings.
In 2011 at the first artMKRT, renegade spin off of the SF Fine Art Fair, I was instantly (and blissfully) seduced by the mighty sirens of Ian Ingram's monumental self portraits. The two on display—Forgotten Offerings and Pierrot—were startling achievements in the...
A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar stood under the open sky, after WWI, in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of forces of destructive torrents and explosions, was the...
Mistakes can’t be erased but they move you from your present position. —Richard Diebenkorn, from "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" To me there is no painter who more evocatively captures the essence of the California landscape than Richard Diebenkorn. Through...
Working toward that moment—what painters call the frozen moment—led me to a new way of narrative painting. Painting is about trying to get to that instant that is pregnant with some special kind of energy. Done right, there's an exquisite tension in the painting...
Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action—and consequently accumulate grain on grain of wilful choice like a very miser—never forgetting how one link dropped undoes indefinite number. —William James I...
True Nature is a collection of nine folios printed on copper sheeting, each measuring 8 x 12." The sheets have been folded vertically and stitched down the fold with copper wire, emulating pages removed from a "found" book. Emulating the practice of elevating...
