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Sketchbook # 29: Judith Linhares
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 […]
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Sketchbook #27: Laura Newman
The three sets of drawings below, Orient, Rome, and Pont Blanc show what a startling effect a change of scene makes in Newman’s work. This is what she writes about them: “ I think of […]
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Sketchbook #22: Cathy Diamond
To draw the forest is to study complex relationships. Below are a few of the direct studies Diamond has made that indirectly underlie and inform her complex and dynamic paintings. This is how she describes […]
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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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Sketchbook Number Eight: Clintel Steed
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 stays right on the surface of a dollar bill, […]
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Sketchbook Number Seven: Liza Phillips
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. Here are her descriptions: Lucky […]
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Sketchbooks Number 1: Don Doe
Don Doe’s playful, exuberant, mythological sketchbook — perfect for summer! ( it’s not over yet, right?)