My painting is rooted in a place…but as a general matter I am not a faithful copyist of the everyday. “Yellow Skirt, Brooklyn, 2014,” oil on linen, 52 x 78 inches. © Elisa Jensen. Image courtesy of the artist. A young woman walks at a rapid clip. It is a winter day and she is […]

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. […]

A limited palette lends itself to the method of working from inside out: from the center of a color scale towards its poles. A painting starts within a narrow range of color-values and expands outwards, as I grope to overcome the limitation of the resources and broaden the range of tones, temperatures and color sensations. […]

Def Louise Nevelson ‘Untitled.’ 1981. © Louise Nevelson Foundation, courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York. Remnants: Louise Nevelson & Aaron Siskind 19 September – 2 November ’13 Bruce Silverstein 535 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 212.627.3930 Thirty-two works by Nevelson and Siskind, most of them from early in the artists’ careers, are now […]