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The Stoopio Visit: 4:00 pm, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, with Don Doe, Cecilia Whittaker-Doe and Cathy Nan Quinlan

April 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Like addicts seeking a fix, we met on the stoop, each carrying a painting we had made in the last two weeks. We stood well apart as if we didn’t care for each other. It [...]

Sketchbook Number Nine: Judith Simonian

April 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

The first Simonian I ever really saw was Fleshy Pink Room. (see below) It has a marvelous sense of space. At the same time, the elements that define the space are quite [...]

Sketchbook Number Eight: Clintel Steed

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Steed’s paintings have a unique surface—interlocking shapes of color that somehow produce a powerful sense of space and depth. Except for a sassy drawing that [...]

Sketchbook Number Seven: Liza Phillips

February 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

It seems uncannily appropriate with China so much on our minds to show, among others, a few sketches that Liza Phillips made at a residence in Taohuatan China last October. [...]

A Christmas Present from Talking Pictures: “Observando El Cielo” by Jeanne Liotta

December 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Christmas, 1958, Tampa, Florida. I was sure Santa would bring a pony, but he brought a tent. My brother, eleven at the time, was supposed to spend the night with me in it in [...]

Successes in the Garden for Native Plants: the Monarch and the American Lady, in Brooklyn!

September 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

A Monarch caterpillar feeding on a Milkweed in our treebed in Bed Stuy. Two caterpillars ate almost the entire plant in a couple days. So I moved them to another milkweed in [...]

Sketchbook Number Six: Michele Araujo

August 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Playful offbeat minimalism. Monumental at 10”x 8”. Effortless spatial inventiveness. Or—it does look effortless, right? —CNQ [...]

Sketchbook Number Five: Cecilia Whittaker-Doe

August 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

I love the city in the summer. So many people leave–good riddance to them! The Rockaways, the public pools, tables in restaurants, parking spaces, open hydrants to bike [...]

Happy Father’s Day from Talking Pictures! “Suffering” (2010)—a film by Keith Sanborn

June 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

There is no catch and release in this beautifully spare “instructional video.” Life, Death, Danger, Love and an Existential Question⁠—or two⁠—captured in [...]

Talking Pictures presents (a two day event): Six Paintings # 8: Kerry Law

May 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

Please note that the opening is on Thursday this time! Talking Pictures invitation to a two day event: Six Paintings#8: Kerry Law Opening Thursday, May 16 from 6-9. Talking [...]