What Meets the Eye
Jennifer Bartlett and Me
Now on top of everything else, Jennifer Bartlett is painting my paintings for me. As I learned courtesy of Raggedy Ann’s Foot (*) a couple weeks ago—do you see? And it pained me. Fearing […]
Year: 2016
Letters to the Editor
Letter about “Nice Weather”
weather/whether is white open or blindingly blunt? is black shut or sharp dreaming? when black helpers are green & purple & white helpers are as yellow as they are blue whom do we woo? […]
Parables
Parable # 5: Bowl
I came to NYC when I was 17 to go to the New York Studio School. It was a little crazy because the school was unaccredited and most of the students were much older […]
The Pencil Review
Cathy Nan Quinlan draws Butter, Bishop and Descarfino at the Buggy Factory
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What Meets the Eye
What’s Behind the Papered-over Windows at Outlet Gallery: NSFW | Male Nudes by Female Painters
OK, the women are finally getting their day, turning the objectifying tables and whatnot, and now we’re going to see some female subtlety and range of emotion. However, when I take a hard look (haha), […]
The Pencil Review
CNQ draws Deborah Brown at Art 3
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What Meets the Eye
“Nice Weather” on the Upper East Side at Skarstedt
I was considering going to the Met Breuer “Unfinished…” when I walked into “Nice Weather”, and that is probably why I started wondering if these paintings were finished. The Met has pitched a curveball at […]
What Meets the Eye
“Darkness of My Life”, too. George Condo in “Nice Weather” at Skarstedt Gallery
Do you ever experience a dream that’s like falling down steps in the dark? And one time I fell off a country road down a wooded hill because I was looking at the moon, which […]
Bad Kitty
Parables
Parable # 4: Busy
Back when industry first abandoned New York and there was a glut of available loft space, we rented what had been a tie factory in Hoboken for $300 a month. There was a business that […]