The title came to mind while I was painting. I envisioned North Truro on lower Cape Cod, wandered to Mykonos, followed by thoughts of Matisse’s Morocco paintings which led me to recall Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky, soon I was hearing Dylan’s Tangled Up in Blue… Emilia Dubicki ‘White Curtains @ the Blue Motel’ 2013. […]

Different from his anyway knock-out show at Pace’s uptown gallery in 2010, Robert Ryman: Recent Paintings at Pace on 25th Street is all the more knock-out because daylight is let in. And this being Ryman, light–its kind and quality–is the whole shebang. Here, natural light makes the six small oil on cotton canvas paintings (2010-’11) […]

Aaron Siskind’s photographs from the post-Photo League years feel at first crowded with big, familiar names: Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman. But Siskind, who understood that paint is paint and the camera is different, made pictures that remain wholly his own. Never mind the pervasive sense of Abstract Expressionist gesture in […]

“Once a book is written, I feel that I have said what I had to say… So I decide that it might be best for me to do something else. Lately, this “something else” has been the making of collages…which now seems to have become a fixed daily activity, and one that I have no […]