I began thinking that something else was happening, and that something else had to be brought into my thinking as a social realist painter — how the hell can I bring that into my thinking as an image maker? Arnold Mesches, “Eternal Return,” 2013, acrylic on canvas and paper on canvas. 50 x 60 in. […]

…I started to make portraits of artist friends in their studios. I had a curiosity and need to observe how they were setting up their workspaces and what they were surrounding themselves with. I wondered how they spent their days. @ Laurie Lambrecht, Roy with Reflections on the Prom, 1990. Image courtesy of the artist. […]

Jessica Auer Brett Baker Roger Ballen Andrew Baren Steven Baris Uta Barth Paul Behnke Richard Benari Siri Berg Katherine Bradford Farrell Brickhouse Patrick Burns Jennifer Colten Clayton Colvin Guy C. Corriero Michael David Emilia Dubicki Sharon Etgar Alan Feltus Katie Ford Nobu Fukui Marianne Gagnier Ilya Gefter Ellen Goldsmith Brenda Goodman Elizabeth Gourlay Gary Green […]

Paint is so mutable, the moment evanescent, the light flickers thru catching form and flotsam, revealing moments of specificity in almost near random ways, it will change in the next blink of the eye. Farrell Brickhouse, The Sparrows (Ship Of Fools Series), 2014. Oil on canvas, 22 x 28 in. © Farrell Brickhouse. Image courtesy […]

Aspiring to express subtler layers of reality in his art, he gradually liberated himself from the limitations of an overt political agenda. Arnold Mesches, “Shock and Awe 23,” 2012. A/c, 80 x 104 in. © Arnold Mesches. Courtesy of the artist. The shock of his first encounter with Franz Kline’s paintings back in the fifties […]

I feel the work in my body. I feel it. I don’t know how to exactly express that, how to translate that into language. But most people confuse emotions in art with sentiment, and I’m out to crack that one. Dorothea Rockburne, “Scalar,” 1971. © 2014 Dorothea Rockburne / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. […]