It doesn’t matter if it is painting, sculpture, drawing or photography. They all unravel in time. The work is about temporality and ways to relate to it. A durational temporality that is exposed to light. Nazafarin Lotfi, papier-mâché and wood, 2015. © Nazafarin Lotfi. Courtesy of the artist. I am drawn to sculpture as a […]

How can one, with any seriousness or sense of commitment, create a painting and take it through its life, and it doesn’t involve a loss as you develop it. Ruth Miller Forge, “Enamel Jug Still Life,” 2001 (reworked 2013), oil on linen © Ruth Miller Forge. Courtesy the artist and New York Studio School. Photo: […]

This painting happened at the end of a work session on a summer day, when sweatiness, general mess and frustration let mind barriers fall. I was on a pink jag, thinking about Wendy Davis’ filibuster Mizunos and the image of Malala Yousafzai making her speech at the UN, clothed in Benazir Bhutto’s sari.” Marianne Gagnier, […]

My own personal, most dominate, influence as an American painter from the beginning has always been de Kooning and to this day I don’t think I have ever gotten over “Pink Angels” simply for the way in which de Kooning uses line as an articulating, overlapping depth element and for the way he plunges that […]

Each of us will have a unique compilation of remembered sensations and it is how this material shapes our work that will distinguish my paintings from those of the next painter. We really don’t have all that much control over what we produce when we work from within. What unfolds on the canvas evolves slowly. […]

In working, I try to crystallize all of my ideas, observations and impressions about line, architecture, color and geometry. At the same time, I try to keep the result open ended, so that the viewer can bring their own thoughts, and reinterpret their own experiences, to find that sensation of place that we hold in […]

When I made this painting it felt as if it was taking shape in my peripheral vision. It took a gentle act of will to keep it there long enough to finish it, like one of those dreams in which you’re flying but you know not to think about it too much or the dream […]

Eventually a structure that pleases me starts to emerge. Sometimes shallow space, sometimes deeper space reminiscent of a landscape or an interior. I want imagery in my work to be difficult to pin down…I want the viewer to be able to enter into an open-ended dialogue with the work, the same process that brought me […]