Painting for me acts as a pressure release valve and I feel fortunate to enjoy it thoroughly while making a living at it. To do so, I find it requires regularly striving for freedom from my own expectations. This helps me to keep my mind open and my work fresh. While evolution as an artist […]

On November 11, 2001, J.D. Wilkes, Leslie Paterson-Marx and I opened The Plowhaus Artists’ Cooperative in a 700 square foot storefront in Historic Lockeland Springs, East Nashville. We were three artists trying to find a way to help our community heal after the devastating events of 9/11. Our goal was to provide a venue for […]

I am very interested in the materiality of painting. The possibility of a blob or drip of paint becoming a tree, face or anything else is central to my practice. By emphasizing the “painted-ness” of the work, I hope to get the image to exist in a somewhat precarious state, where it is constantly on […]

To some, my work appears simple. It’s about sex. On a superficial level, this may be true. Whether my work inspires deeper contemplation is dependent upon the viewer. My interest in portraying sex is more about the feelings that linger after people have shared an intimate moment together rather than the act itself. We all […]

I’ve always regarded myself as a musician first, then an artist. I was always very hands-on with my band: writing the songs, playing guitar, singing, producing, drawing, painting, photographing the album cover and designing and printing the shirts. Back in Australia in the early 80s, I was considered “too weird” while I was looking for […]

In the process of their creation, my paintings do not have any declared beginning. The canvases are often covered with traces of the studio even before the final format or subject matter has been determined. Often, the finished pieces are bipartite and consist of separate works that have been combined right in the middle of […]

Douglas Rosenberg is an EMMY nominated director and the recipient of the Phelan Art Award in Video.  He is well known for his collaborations with choreographers including Molissa Fenley, Sean Curran, Ellen Bromberg, Joe Goode, Li Chiao-Ping, Eiko and Koma and others. He is the Director and Curator of Dancing for the Camera: Dance Film […]

In the belief that my own words would be just marginal notes upon the truth within the canvas, I decided to approach the composition of a text about my personal relationship to my work in a way similar to the process of creating a painting. Surrounded by invented or found text fragments, I reorder and […]

Viewed from a distance, Kim Keever’s large photographs are of moody, damp environments—mist hovers over boggy ground, tropical plants crowd the embankment, streams snake across the dirt—and everything is oppressed by an uncommonly active sky with thick clouds that stretch for miles and then close off the view. Yet there is something disquietingly artificial about […]

It was in Buenos Aires one year ago that I had a surprise encounter with Vito Campanella’s work at the MALBA Museum. Although surrealist art is in my bailiwick, I was glimpsing for the first time the work of a major artist—an entirely imaginary and fantastic world of creation crafted over more than half a […]