…I started to make portraits of artist friends in their studios. I had a curiosity and need to observe how they were setting up their workspaces and what they were surrounding themselves with. I wondered how they spent their days. @ Laurie Lambrecht, Roy with Reflections on the Prom, 1990. Image courtesy of the artist. […]

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 […]

I was tired of feeling so disconnected from my life and myself. As I was cutting up strawberries to serve with lunch I noticed that one of the berries stood out from the rest. I tried to stay on task but I couldn’t take my eyes off this single piece of unripe fruit. @ 2014 […]

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 […]

This is when I love photography; when the medium born to tell a story, doesn’t. No other art form is capable of producing this kind of exchange—giving an expectation of an exact record, only to strip that preconception away, leaving form in its place. In 2012, I saw an exhibition of platinum/palladium prints by master […]

Because it’s really that place which is unreachable, or mysterious, at which the poem becomes ours, finally… A personal note. For all of what seemed, between 2001 and 2007, the ugliest of hate feuds, I turned to four poets—not for solace, but for connection. I was in Jerusalem then, a city that too often gives […]

The transformation of dirt on a surface into a world of light, air, weight, space, movement — that’s art. That’s the beginning and the end. That’s not to be avoided. Georges Seurat, the Artist’s Mother, 1882-83, conté crayon on paper. Images in this article are included under the fair use exemption. This Seurat, Giacometti and […]

The more I understand the backstory of what I’m looking at, the more I know what’s significant and how to use visual language… This is the fourth installment in a Tilted Arc ongoing feature, Women in the Landscape—conversations between women photographers whose work focuses on the land. This conversation is with Karen Halverson, an artist […]

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 […]

One would think that, in making paintings about pattern, there would be a defined beginning and end, an image that’s certain and void of breathing room. But that’s wrong. I feel as if I never know the ending. “Nocturne II,” graphite, oil and venetian plaster on panel, 7.5 x 9.5 inches, 2013. © Alison Hall. […]