Last November, on one of those perpetually cool yet cloudless Bay Area autumn afternoons, I had the good fortune of finding myself at the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco's emerging DoReMi arts district (comprised of the Dogpatch, Potrero Hill,...
When I walked into the unassuming entrance of the Eleventh Street Arts gallery in Long Island City, Queens, I was expecting a tense scene: competitors sitting in dead silence around a table, wringing their hands and anxiously awaiting their fate; the...
While New York City’s renowned Fischbach Gallery may have closed its physical doors for the season, its online exhibition The Endless Summer continues to serve up an aestival e-feast for hungry eyes. “After 50 plus years, the Fischbach Gallery became a...
The moment Barbara Ernst Prey applies a brushstroke to paper, the swath of color she leaves behind is something simultaneously brand new and old. “I paint every day with my mother’s brushes,” the artist says from her bright third-floor studio in the...
Portraiture is an ancient and durable genre. The vanity of patrons and the circumstances of official image-making play important roles in the tradition, of course, and much first-rate work—from the Roman Empire, Diego Velázquez, Anthony Van...
Peter Polites’s oceanscapes and landscapes are measured responses to phenomena never at rest.
When Peter Polites sells one of his water-themed paintings to someone, he often likes to tell them with a bit of humor, “Batteries are included with the canvas...
Tony Curanaj’s (b. 1973) exhibition (November 19–December 19, 2015) at Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City is titled “Echoes and Endeavors.” The second part of that rather enigmatic title acknowledges the masterly control and patient craftsmanship of...
A visit to the East Harlem shared studio of Michael Klein and Joshua LaRock revealed the current work on the artists’ easels and some of the thoughts and plans on their minds.
On a recent summer morning in mid-August, I travelled to East Harlem in New...
I have attended enough summer writing workshops, most of them hosted by universities eager to fill their empty dorm rooms off-season, to recognize traits among my fellow students. I recently completed a weeklong poetry course in Taos, sponsored by the...
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