by Ann Landi | Dec 11, 2015 | Under the Radar
Ted Larsen For the first decade or so of his career, Santa Fe-based artist Ted Larsen had been working successfully in a style he describes as “abstracted landscape.” Then in the late 1990s came a period of profound searching and dissatisfaction. “There were a...
by Ann Landi | Dec 11, 2015 | Artists Choose Artists
Annell Livingston on Joanne Mattera Joanne’s work is about color first, “color beyond color,” color that resonates somewhere deep within me, somewhere beyond the eye. For me, it is to see color from the heart. Usually we see color with our eyes, but with...
by Ann Landi | Dec 11, 2015 | Did You Know?
Frank Stella Meets Jasper Johns “The artist who launched Minimalism was Frank Stella (b. 1936), who was still a student at Princeton when he saw Jasper Johns’s 1958 show at Leo Castelli Gallery. He liked the repetition of the flags, so many stars, so many...
by Ann Landi | Dec 9, 2015 | Features
Artists and Critics: Part Two Zombie Formalism and the Incredible Shrinking Art Press Not to sound like too much of a fogey, but there was a time when the art world abounded with publications devoted to art—Art in America, Studio International, Arts magazine,...
by Ann Landi | Dec 7, 2015 | Features
Should You Have a Contract with Your Dealer? Whether you have a piece of paper in hand or not, it's still a question of trust. Given the increasingly litigious nature of all aspects of our society, it comes as a surprise to find that many galleries and artists...