Sketchbooks Number 1: Don Doe

  A few weeks ago at Linhares’ show at PPOW, I was looking at recent still lives and wondered if she sketched and miraculously she appeared in the gallery and I was able to ask […]

There is an unsettling lack of inhibition in Doe’s paintings. They are overloaded with sexual symbols, tropes and innuendos and it’s not a comfortable mix—they are hot and bothered—I don’t find in them the ironic […]

  “Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented.” Chaim Soutine I love that quote and maybe charcoal should be added, too. Jacque Rochester’s work is luscious and generous but she’s awfully sparse with her […]