Available for Purchase.
"*" indicates required fields
This submission is an inquiry of availability and details but does not guarantee a sale. Thank you for your understanding.
Creative Briefs
Liz Hager
Artist
Creative Briefs is a collection of ideas and creative work that inspire me and inform my painting practice.
Jacob Lawrence: The Power of Pictorial Narrative
"I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe...
Fly Free
What do The Beach Boys have to do with painting?
Is an artwork complete if nobody sees it?
Does an audience complete an artwork?
Behind the curtain… The Rocks of Rhode Island
Behind the scenes creating The Rocks of Rhode Island paintings.
Man With A Mirror: Ian Ingram At artMRKT
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...
The Pity of War
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...
Rambling Through Diebenkorn Country
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...
A Painter’s Bookshelf: Bad Boy
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...
A Painter’s Bookshelf: Daily Rituals
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...
Notes from the Studio: Wise Athena
Note: A version of this post originally appeared on the blog Venetian Red. For the past several months Athena, the Greek goddess of war, civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, crafts, justice and skill (a versatile goddess if ever there was one) has been much on my...
True Nature
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...
Harry Potter & The Fires of Ignorance
Books have always occupied a special place in my world, both as repositories of idea and aesthetic objects. Thus, it was a great honor to be invited to participate in the 2008 exhibit "Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship." The exhibit was first mounted...
Santos y Milagros: “Santa Bernadeta”
Santa Bernadeta is an imaginary saint, whose creation was inspired by the magical blend of indigenous, religious, and colonial Spanish influences that uniquely defines Latin and South American culture. I invented Santa Bernadeta through my own photographs of the rich...
