Parables
Parable #14: While Driving Upstate
Michele said, “You can’t see me right now but I’m rolling my eyes. “ —Adam Simon
Year: 2018
What Meets the Eye
Rackstraw Downes: A Peek Behind the Curtain and Perspective (almost) without Orthogonal Lines
So, a raw sienna underpainting, possibly with a touch of burnt umber ? —scrubbed or is it scumbled onto the canvas, a grid of pencil lines—unfinished? A study or was it just so beautiful as […]
Bad Kitty
Chapter 9: Bad Kitty in the Dark
Bad Kitty was annoyed enough to get out of her hammock — her detested neighbor, a thug who ran the marina, had had the nerve to walk on to the pier again. He had […]
Featured Posts
Sketchbooks Number 2: Susanna Heller
I lived in Williamsburg for twenty years and every single time I walked or rode my bike on the Williamsburg Bridge I would meet this beanpole of a woman with big eyes and a […]
What Meets the Eye
Summer is not over until 9/23! : A Time Before We Were Born: Visions of Arcadia in Contemporary Painting
Do we still dream of Arcadia? A secluded pastoral idyll, idly herding goats and playing the pipes invented by Pan—and Arcadia invented Pan (really). We could frolic with the fauns and the nymphs in an […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
news on stasis
the crackerjack legal mind sentient sentinel panics: public lack ploughing into the jihad feed of feeling, the blow ups dried up snapshots storming the old promontory department store hoping to lift their heads in […]
The Pencil Review
Featured Posts
Sketchbooks Number 1: Don Doe
Don Doe’s playful, exuberant, mythological sketchbook — perfect for summer! ( it’s not over yet, right?)
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
crowned ass*—zero ground
growing, groping under the eagle sky dry spell … swiffing by puffing a lonesome fag … i will cry … can i find the batcher of the rye? star fever everywhere mouths passing by […]
Letters to the Editor
Comment on Painting Now and Forever III (but not if it goes on like this!)”
By the “painter friend” quoted in the review: What a shot of refreshing reality! I am so SO pleased you decided to write…. I’m honored that our conversation continued in the review… The review: It’s […]