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Brett Baker, Night Table, 2013-2014, oil on canvas, 10 x 16 in. © Brett Baker. Courtesy of the artist.

To aim for a more complete expression of reality is not at odds with abstraction. Reality in abstract painting exists where what is seen impacts the body physically… Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-81 (Phillips Collection, Washington D.C). Included under the fair use exemption. (Click to enlarge) Renoir’s vision for painting was as […]

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© Brenda Goodman, Breakthrough-60x84-oil-on-canvas-1985 230w

I had never before or after felt this anxiety so intensely. The jump would mean letting go of that precious section and I would have to TRUST that something else would appear — and that something would resolve and complete the painting. Brenda Goodman, Breakthrough, 1985, oil on canvas, 60 x 84 in. All images: […]

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December (5), 2014, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 62 in. ©Zachery Keating

I felt then, and still feel now, that the best art is internally complex. Even though my technique at the time was essentially reductive (flat colors, clean edges), I was trying my best to avoid simplicity. Minimalism was not, as I saw it, boisterous or contradictory enough to be of life. Maximalism was my chosen […]

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Jay DeFeo, "Untitled (White Spica)," 1973. Gelatin silver print 8 3/4 x 7 3/8 in. (22.2 x 18.7 cm.) MI&N 11792 ©The Jay DeFeo Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY.

The exhibition is a stunner, mostly because it’s DeFeo’s unremitting investigatory impulse and deft handling of (sometimes-) antagonistic media — rather than the handful of forms and objects that became both cast and crew in her work — that’s really the subject here. Jay DeFeo, “Untitled (White Spica),” 1973 Gelatin silver print 8 3/4 x […]

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