Whereas I feel the photographs have a propensity to document, the paintings have no such obligation and as such they use the information in the photographs quite freely and make whatever is needed of the images. There is much re-drawing of the space, re-articulating, such as stepping back to get a slightly more distant view, […]

I have always been concerned with meaning, allusion and narrative – something outside “pure” painterly concerns. Barnett Newman made great “pure” paintings, but I have always felt that I was made of baser clay. I want to tell a story, even if that story is cryptic or fragmentary. Prior to 2011, the focus of my […]

I begin thinking about a site-responsive installation in terms of delineating discrete areas of sculptural marks hewing closely to the walls. These zones are constructed with simple synthetic materials—mosquito netting, fishing line, plastic tarps—that give my vocabulary physicality, but don’t weigh it down. Materials that can be manipulated into varied configurations help me navigate and […]

“I had a break-through in my painting when I began thinking metaphorically. It started with a vein in a forehead, then the realization that everything could be vascular. So tendrils of hair became capillary, as did tendrils of light, stripes in a shirt were arterial, a scrunchie hairband a thrombosis. This was a key for […]

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 […]

The patterning of stripes documents the journey along the trail, revealing the colors winter created in the landscape. For me, the painting also functions as a map, each color marking the location where it was found. Debra Ramsay, The colors of winter, 2014, acrylic on DuraLar, 33 x 40 in. Courtesy of the artist. When […]

For seventeen years I have made work that consists of sequences in order to talk about the passage of time while looking at things that don’t change much at all. For me, rhythm has always played an important role in photography. From the rocking of a developing tray, to a staccato exhibition installation, to the […]

That’s where the poetry comes in…finding the right word…to allow the viewer their own interior narrative. Daniel Levine, Bristol, 2012 – 2013, oil on cotton, 12 x 11 3/4 inches. Image courtesy the artist. (Larger) Daniel Levine’s paintings speak (sometimes quietly, sometimes less so) about color, surface, material and light. But mostly his monochromes—which is […]

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 […]

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. […]