Gary Green, Elm City © 2015

If we can see the grace in quotidian landscapes and our everyday routines then perhaps we can begin to make better choices. Gary Green, Elm City, 2015. All images: © & courtesy the artist. BEN LISLEOne of the things that strikes me first when looking at these photos is this tension between a thoroughly human […]

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Roger Ballen, "Show off," 2000. Courtesy of the artist.

During this period, 1995 to 2000, that I created “Outland,” my work gradually shifted from documenting the world to transforming it through the camera and the deeper parts of my mind. At the same time I began to view myself as an artist/photographer rather than a photographer. The photographs came about as a result of […]

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John Zinsser. "Ideographic Picture," 2015, Enamel and oil on canvas, 30 x 30." Courtesy Graham Gallery.

What was it that launched our own painting out of the issues of abstract expressionism? For me, it always means making paintings that are event-driven, something where you’re looking for an image that will emerge out of the painting process itself. A discussion of Re-Irascibles: Theodoros Stamos and John Zinsser, an exhibition at Graham Gallery […]

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© Joan Waltemath. Detail from Hionas Gallery installation. Courtesy of Hionas Gallery.

“…[M]y work has always been concerned with a physical relationship with the body and how the body negotiates the world and receives a painting – through movement,” Joan Waltemath said in conversation with painter Gordon Moore. Joan Waltemath’s paintings and drawings proceed from a deep understanding of how the body engages art—how their surfaces trigger […]

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"Bilateral Silhouette-092012B," india ink, polymer, acrylic on panel, 11x14."

The more successful paintings for me are the ones in which the figure-ground relationship is less stable; your eye can’t completely fix on a specific area, and the surface is in constant flux. For me it keeps the painting from becoming too easily read. The work of painter Patrick Burns is elegant and seductive with […]

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Daniel Levine at Churner and Churner 2014

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 […]

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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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I feel the work in my body. I feel it. I don’t know how to exactly express that, how to translate that into language. But most people confuse emotions in art with sentiment, and I’m out to crack that one. Dorothea Rockburne, “Scalar,” 1971. © 2014 Dorothea Rockburne / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. […]

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Arnold Mesches, "Eternal Return 3" Featured Crop ©Arnold Mesches, courtesy: the artist & Life on Mars Gallery.

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. […]

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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: […]

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