...and I both seem to love to paint patterns, round things like cups and jade plants. Therefore it would seem I love his work and that would be true.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Happy 100 Degrees!
In honor of this unbearable heat, I will share with you a painting I have hidden in my favorites collection, the collection of a few pieces I hoard all for myself. But this heat wave is so miserable, I figure I have to pull out anything that will make others happier and cooler. I would love to be at the beach in this Mitchell Johnson painting...what a fantastic composition and bridge between his love of color, form and subject.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Drawing Show
Haverford Backyard II, charcoal on paper, 18 X 24 inches
Nice drawing by Martha Armstrong in group show at Gross McCleaf through July 29th.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
New York in July
If you find yourself in New York, on the weekend, in July, don't expect to go to galleries. Even though their websites, the gallery guide and all other stores would lead you to believe you are not crazy for trying...you are. I found this out with two friends when we tried to hit some shows closing this weekend (which were never open this weekend).
The good news was, we were in New York. So there were still things to look at. Shops and markets and people. Actually, the Wolf Kahn show at Ameringer was open by some freak accident too and it was worth the trip in itself. The other gallery which we found open,
showcasing the Joan Mitchell MFA recipients, was not.
But the best thing I learned about on this trip was Strand Bookstore. At 14th and Broadway with 'over 18 miles of books' I would guess 15 miles were art books. Good art books, including probably the best I have ever seen in terms of good color reproductions; the expanded edition of Diebenkorn by G. Nordland. It wasn't expanded by one page just to sell more copies either, looked like double the original from what I remember of it.
And so through these few things I got what I needed from New York again: don't be trendy, don't be indulgent, make a lot of work, struggle with it, work from a place of that's honest, work from formal picture-making questions, even if you don't know how to say what they are. Thanks NY.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Mary Fedden's Purple Painting
Thanks to a reader, I looked into the work of Mary Fedden and couldn't have been more pleasantly surprised! This painting is just delicious. I would love to see it in person...of course she's another Royal Academy grad so just another reason I have to get to London! Please continue to send artists my way!
