Behind the curtain… The Rocks of Rhode Island

April 26, 2022

Behind the scenes creating The Rocks of Rhode Island paintings.

Man With A Mirror: Ian Ingram At artMRKT

April 10, 2017

 

Note: A version of this post was published earlier on the blog Venetian Red.

In 2011 at the first artMKRT, renegade spin off of the SF Fine Art Fair, I was...

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The Pity of War

January 02, 2017

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 tiny, fragile human life.

—Walter Benjamin

Through a...

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Rambling Through Diebenkorn Country

December 24, 2016

Mistakes can’t be erased but they move you from your present position. —Richard Diebenkorn, from “Notes to myself on beginning a painting”

Note: A version of this review of Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years 1953-1956 (De Young Museum, June 22–September 29, 2013)...

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A Painter’s Bookshelf: Bad Boy

December 20, 2016

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 that comes from a precise set of relationships—between forms on an abstract level and between people on an image level. Finding where to arrest the...

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