Jim Lyman, gallerist at Lyman-Eyer Gallery in Provincetown, getting help hanging “Golawon” from Stephanie Hobart I have a friend who can paint a complete show over a summer and still have lots of time to go to the beach and hang out with her pals. I’ve always been a bit envious of her art making […]
Warburg and the Bruins
Aby Warburg, unconventional and still controversial art historian all these years later, made a trip to the Black Mesa in Arizona in 1896 and encountered the Hopi Indians. An expert on Florentine Renaissance art, he had his aha moment in realizing how similar the highly ritualized Hopi dances were to the elaborate court festivals held […]
- Aesthetics
- ...
Raccoons and Uncertainty
Markings on wood, from the African art collection at the Brooklyn Museum: Beautifully ambiguous Poems, poets and poetry provide a parallel universe that sometimes helps make a little more sense of my own huddled world of paintings, painters and art. A good example is this excerpt from an essay by Joel Brouwer that appeared on […]
Resonance is Real
Our minds and eyes are editing and practicing selective neglect on a daily basis, so what each of us sees creates our customized version of reality. One of the most stimulating aspects of traveling to a new venue is watching that process happen with fresh material. My visit to California was full of that selective […]
Taking a Break
Latin American art from the Brooklyn Museum. Finger puppets! I’m in California for a week. I will return on June 12.
Scale it Up, Scale it Down
“System 4, Hummingbird”, by Richard Tuttle Notes from a few days in New York City: Richard Tuttle’s current show at Pace Gallery, What’s the Wind, consists of significantly larger scale works than his show at Sperone Westwater in June of 2007. (I wrote about it here.) Intimate and miniaturized, the wall pieces have now been […]
Provincetown Show
Golawon, mixed media on linen, 54 x 72″ A show of my new work opens this month at Lyman-Eyer Gallery in Provincetown. In that mysterious way that work emerges, these latest pieces began with some of my signatory themes and then headed off in a whole new direction. Form, color, surface and size have all […]
Boston Gallery Update
Jessica Straus at Boston Sculptor’s Gallery I am sharing a few highlights from my recent visit to some Boston gallery shows. Without intention, the majority of work that I saw that spoke most directly to me was 1) 3D and 2) made by women. I have no explanation for either. (BTW, I made this trip […]
- Aesthetics
- ...
Stella, He Da Man
The way I prepare for a show is to go into hermit mode: Sequester yourself in the art cave and don’t come out until the work is ready. That also means that most of the conversations I am having these days are with non-sentient beings (i.e., my paintings). It is in a small way like […]
The Art Healer
Melamid in front of his “Art Healing Ministry” An article from the New York Times provocatively titled Can a Picasso Cure You?, went viral as soon as it was published. References to it were appearing repeatedly on Facebook and Twitter all day. First of all, the title is just too delicious to not stop and […]