I like to discover myself little by little ... a little every day ... every instant ... in the time following the time … following the moon with my feet ... following the most distant planets with my black gloves. Every collage is a journey in and out … [Read more...]
Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest
Now Now is not past, but will be soon, With everything that is to come Under the stars and the white moon. An argued choice we make at noon By midnight sees us drained and dumb. Now is not past, but will be soon. If Armagnac absorbs the … [Read more...]
Alec Clayton: Abstract Paintings from the Retrospective
Alec Clayton will have a retrospective exhibition at the gallery at Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA, from June 28-August 10, 2017, representing 44 years of painting both abstract and figurative paintings. The paintings below are a selection of the … [Read more...]
Icarus: Paintings by Joost de Jonge
daredevil it felt as if he was made out of gold his head rested upon his shoulders weightless, his father called for him but Icarus seemed hypnotised lost in a curve of endless blue the sun in his eyes as if he was made out of gold … [Read more...]
Not Exactly Real: New Paintings by Ricker Winsor
My new paintings are taking an honest direction home. My early work was both naïve and primitive. My early heroes were people like “Le Douanier” Henri Rousseau and Horace Pippin, an American painter. Now I find myself coming back to that, just trying to … [Read more...]
The Mists of Youth: Oil Paintings
Artist's statement: The series of works presented here portrays the state of alienation as a pervasive human condition, in particular, the one that engulfs parents and children during the long battle with drug addiction. Books have … [Read more...]
Plein Air Painting in Surabaya, Indonesia
Artist Statement: I am working outside again in the same way I have for much of my painting life, setting up my easel and reacting to what I see with emotion and energy. I only want to be free and spontaneous and hope for the best. I never know what I am … [Read more...]
Follow the Paint: Paintings by Ricker Winsor
In painting, I don’t want to know what will happen, how it will turn out, ahead of time. I want to be surprised and delighted and I keep changing things until I come to that place. It is about “following the paint” in my way of thinking. Francis Bacon … [Read more...]
Dearly Beloved, Part I
In San Francisco, a handsome old Lutheran Church is for sale. My "Beat Generation", progressive, bohemian, intellectual, Jewish, left-leaning, scholarly, non-conformist, art professor parents, Leonard and Helen Breger, are deeply devout prolific artists. … [Read more...]
Mixed Media Paintings by Tina Garvin
Artist's statement: This collection of mixed media paintings is inspired by the tension between the nature that surrounds us and our own inherent natures.These paintings are a series of communications. The symbolism, color, and movement in each artwork … [Read more...]
The Rift in Time: Paintings by Rodica Miller
Introductory note: “The Rift In Time” series of works is a journey that starts from our inner world and continues onward to the stars. With delicate care, I try to render the ghostly energy waves reaching our senses, and the nostalgia of perishable things … [Read more...]
Rik Lina Art Exhibit: Selva Tropical – Canto de Pássaros, May 16-July 31 2015
Rik Lina sends an announcenent of his new exhibition, Selva Tropical - Canto de Pássaros (Tropical Jungle - Singing Birds) which runs May 16 through July 31, 2015. The location is: Fundação Dionisio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro AGUEDA - … [Read more...]
En Plein Air: Landscape Painting
Artist's statement: This is a condensed survey of the plein air landscape I have done over many years in locations from Vashon Island, Washington, Vermont, Spain, and Bangladesh.They are oil paintings about 22 x 28 inches more or less. RW … [Read more...]
In the Jungle: Abstract Paintings of Life in the Wild
Artist's Statement: These are abstract paintings through which I have attempted to capture the feel, but not necessarily the look, of movement of animals and people in nature, combining the gestures of abstract expressionism with patterning, and with an … [Read more...]
Eight paintings by Tom Melsen
Artist's statement: What is important to me, is what I like to call "the art of destroying." I destroy a lot of my works. Most paintings I make feel like crap to me and only a few of the many paintings I make survive. I have no specific way of working; … [Read more...]