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Sketchbook #16: Jessica Weiss
If you grew up in the time of ubiquitous wallpaper, either at home or in the houses of stuffy and stern relatives, you were already a painter in your mind. You could “see” other […]
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Magic! William Basinski at Le Poisson Rouge “The Last Symphony”
In October 2018 Basinski played On Time/ Out of Time as a fundraiser for The OutPost*. He presided as an almost motionless High Priest (he says High Priestess) and led the audience into deep space. […]
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Don’t Go Back to School!: “High Heel Beloved” a film by Leslie Thornton
If you have never seen Peggy and Fred in Hell, Leslie Thornton’s “lifetime project,” as she puts it— at 20 plus episodes and counting—then you have never seen anything like High Heel Beloved which […]
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Sketchbook #16: Margie Neuhaus
“I’m aware of a push and pull, between a kind of structural logic and more spontaneous gestures. The drawings are all records of decisions at various levels of awareness. My weavings and sculptures share […]
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Sketchbook #15: Jacque Rochester
“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 […]
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“Lucky Breaks” and a daily update of life in Kiev: THE WAR DIARY OF YEVGENIA BELORUSETS
In Lucky Breaks, Yevgenia Belorusets documents Russia’s war on Ukraine (that began in the Donbas region in 2014), in a series of fictional vignettes that are very sad, also very funny and right now, uncomfortably […]
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Check Out the agadmator!
Of course you don’t want to waste time in the studio watching chess videos.. but then again cognitive fixation impedes creativity in chess and presumably in painting too, so… The agadmator (Antonio Radić) is known […]
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Sketchbook # 14: Thaddeus Radell
Good Morning, Mr Radell! I’m wondering if Bonjour, Monsieur Corbet was the first iteration of this theme and we know Van Gogh did see it because he visited the Bruyas Collection (as he mentions […]