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A Conversation: Sam Reveles
Sam and I sat in a coffee shop a day before he left from his residency at the University of Texas at Dallas residency program, CentralTrak. His residency produced new paintings and drawings for his solo show, Aran, currently on view at Talley Dunn Gallery. Speaking of his early years in LA, Reveles recalls an […]
Don't kill Bill: Powhida at Charlie James in LA
The crudely amped-up art market built by the likes of Gagosian, Zwirner, and the auction houses has overwhelmed critical dialogue. But are they the only culprits? In "Bill by Bill" a solo exhibition at Charlie James Gallery, WilliamShow More Summary
Plein Air and Airplanes
Plein air painting can get rather exciting if you are being buzzed by an airplane over and over. Peggy Immel, Coni Grant and I went painting along the Rio Grande River while my hubby and Steve Immel were flying around so that Steve could use his photography skills to get some great shots from the plane. Show More Summary
A Day in New York: Jenny Zoe Casey
Running into friends at openings isn't that unusual, but every now and then I see Jenny Zoe Casey, the artist who organized and invited me to speak at TedXOrlando a few years ago. She was in town for the day (!) and so I invited her to write a post about her hardcore hit-and-run visit. Show More Summary
Stacey Rozich: Within Without me
Stacey Rozich’s Within Without Me opened May 2 at Roq la Rue Gallery in Seattle. The 22 watercolor and gouache paintings on display cast the artist’s trademark colorful, convivial monsters in a new light—or new darkness, rather. The series is about “the light and the shadows of faith, devotion and the power of lies” and illustrates […]
Return to Campobello Island - and the Traveling Palette
"Lake Shadows" 9x12 oil/panel - $150 unframed + $12 shipping We've been back on Campobello Island for about a week now, and things are quiet. It's always quiet in May, but I enjoy that because it's my time to clean the dust out of the studio, take stock of my painting supplies, get the gallery set up and even paint a little. Show More Summary
EMAIL: Rebecca Morris on that pink painting at Frieze
Curious about her odd, uncharacteristic pink painting (image above) on display at Frieze last week, I wrote LA artist Rebecca Morris and asked her about it. Here's what she told me:
"Thanks for asking about that painting! It was nice for me to have it up at the fair. Show More Summary
Effervescent Requiem
Mixed a few colors and changed up the background. Working wet on wet, placed the circles and ovals of the fabric pattern, indicating colors. It’s a sketch of a map to the final goal, but it will get me there. Instant effervescence. It made the jump I hoped for, changing from the somber mood of [...]
CURATE: The tired and poor at Frieze
If I were going to curate a show of painting-objects, without a doubt the exhibition would include a section on rumpled, badly stretched canvas and wrinkles. In the following pieces, all on display at Frieze last week, wrinkled, lumpy...Show More Summary
May Newsletter from Michael Chesley Johnson
"Mabel's Gate" 9x12 oil - $300 unframed, contact Michael A view of Mabel Dodge Luhan's historic front gate in Taos, New Mexico May Newsletter from Michael Chesley Johnson May, 2013Campobello Island, NB, Canada We logged another 3600 miles on our cross-country trip from Arizona to Campobello Island, New Brunswick. Show More Summary
Painting, You’re Doing It Wrong
Don’t bother asking Mark Gottsegen – founder of AMIEN, author of The Painter’s Handbook, teacher, artist, and all around art materials guru – what’s the best type of paint to use? “I get asked this all the time,” said Gottsegen, who took time out from writing to speak to me last week. “And I say, […]
A Conversation: Judy Glantzman
To know Judy, a wonderful and generous artist and teacher, one has to reconcile her kind spirit with her absolutely gruesome work. Body parts, heads (so many heads!) and objects of destruction are rife throughout her recent solo show at Betty Cunningham Gallery. Glantzman’s raw imagery, what Peter Plagens of the Wall Street Journal called […]
Weekend Warriors
At the shared edge of Hollywood and Los Feliz, across from La Luz de Jesus Gallery / Wacko / Soap Plant, down a block from Cheetah’s gentlemen’s club, and next door to a tattoo place, lies the residence of artists Jay Erker and John Mills. The front room of their place is also Weekend, described […]
Bilious Green Begone
Chugging along on QWERTY. Meanwhile, the tweaking continues on QWERTY- I’m planning to alter the background color, so expect that bilious green to be gone shortly.
Frieze: Unprimed immediacy
Since the early days of Color Field painting, working on unprimed canvas or linen has given the impression of a certain unfinished immediacy--more like the page of a sketchbook than a finished painting. At Frieze this weekend, unprimed...Show More Summary
The Big Hoot: A Twisted Comic Landscape of Epic Proportions
The Big Hoot is the result of a fruitfully epic collaboration between Albuquerque-based artists David Leigh and Larry Bob Phillips that draws on the persuasive power of comic-inspired renderings to convey themes of nature, violence, death, beauty and the absurd. The floor-to-ceiling fun-house of expertly rendered grotesquery not only serves to overwhelm the viewer with […]
Surprise appearance at Frieze: Bernard Piffaretti
At Frieze New York yesterday, in the densely hung Galerie Frank Elbaz booth, I stumbled upon two fantastic paintings by Bernard Piffaretti, a French abstract painter who wasn't included in Frieze's list of participating artists. In 2010, readers may recall that Piffaretti (b. Show More Summary
SNAPS: Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Open Studios
Since 1991 the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program has been granting free studio space to visual artists to create new work. Phong Bui, Rochelle Feinstein, Chris Martin, Harriet Shorr and Don Voisine selected the sixteen 2013 residents from more than 1000 applicants. Show More Summary
Interlude in Castine: 2013 Castine Plein Air Festival
On our way back to Campobello Island, we decided to stop in historic Castine, Maine, for a night. If you've not been to Castine, it's a wonderful town with beautiful old buildings and a historic waterfront. It's also going to be the location for the juried 2013 Castine Plein Air Festival, in which I will be participating. Show More Summary
SNAPS: Open Studios at ISCP
Founded in 1994, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in East Williamsburg is a residency-based contemporary art institution for emerging to mid-career artists and curators. Although many of the artists' practices comprise...Show More Summary
