There cannot be a verbal appraisal of my paintings as, in the final analysis, each is its own self-referential statement, and if it could be written down then the work becomes immediately superfluous. Journey of Discovery Keith Morant Keith Morant, Dreamtime. Courtesy of artist. There cannot be a verbal appraisal of my paintings as, in […]

Transmigrating Images," the most recent exhibition of Grzegorz Sztabinski at the Studio Gallery in Warsaw, presents works including paintings, drawings and installations, spanning his career. The names of his cycles are characteristic, thus allowing us to infer the horizon of the author’s interests, for example "Logical Landscapes," "Inter-Things," "Self-Quotations," "Cuts and Castoff Parts." Painting as […]

The recently deceased Scott Barber is being honored with a handsome survey exhibition at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas. The show reveals an artist refining his art into a body of very accomplished paintings. As a fixture of the Texas art scene, Barber’s art is often contextualized by descriptions of pictorial flatness and an […]

Johann Faust gave his soul to Mephistopheles in order to acquire knowledge of the world. Jerry Foust gave up all his possessions in order to paint. Foust lives and works in a huge, abandoned studio on Greene Street in SoHo. By all accounts, he is a homeless man, but he has made a home of […]

On weekends when I was a child, my father would roam around greater Atlanta looking for interesting things to photograph. I happened to be with him the day he discovered the artist Nellie Mae Roe. Hell Yes Scott Weiland Kinya Hanada, Untitled, 2006. Courtesy of the artist. On weekends when I was a child, my […]

Kathy Feighery: I think that’s what a lot of my art is about, teetering on the edge between abstract and representational. There’s a landscape quality, especially any time you draw a horizon line. Solving the Problems of the Painted World   Kathy Feighery, Dress #1. Oil on canvas 36″ x 48″.   Kathy Feighery: I […]

It was late. Inside my loft studio surrounded by images of various circus freaks, a pair of war machines, blue organ meat, canvases and simian bones. Meat Craig Larotonda Craig Larotonda Craig Larotonda, The Meateaters, courtesy of artist It was late. Inside my loft studio surrounded by images of various circus freaks, a pair of […]

Walking through "Lure of the Lore" is like daydreaming out loud. Not surreal so much, but secret-real or sub-real. The kind of real where inspirations, ideas and thoughts get stuck, reoriented and then distilled; chain reactions that slip and slide around the real or supposed real where seconds become hours, hours infinite. Lure of the […]

Hyperrealism, so popular in its recent gruesome version, is a broad attitude, a big trend that traces back to the beginning of the 20th Century. We must not forget that Marcel Duchamp’s Etant Donnèe laid the basis. Predators Emilio Corti Josè Molina, Hombre Mono. Courtesy of artist. Hyperrealism, so popular in its recent gruesome version, […]

>You’re in Venice. It’s 1292–the Grand Council has decreed that all glass-making houses are to be confined to the island of Murano. Only the Italians are to know the secrets of glass…In fact, Venetian glass makers are forbidden, by punishment of death, to leave Venice or to even teach their trade to foreigners. Glass Exposed […]