by Millicent Young | Apr 26, 2016 | Artist Essays
A Sculptor Turns Her Eyes and Ears on the Big Ears Festival By Millicent Young As a New Yorker gone rural, I live and work in a relatively isolated way in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Winters are my deep rich studio time, and yet this past winter,...
by Ann Landi | Apr 2, 2016 | Artist Essays
Sanctioned Spaces Living with the most important legacy of a famous father and his equally famous wife: the studios Robert Motherwell, my father, purchased our home the year I was born. My earliest recollection of entering his studio is when I was a toddler. We lived...
by Ann Landi | Feb 5, 2016 | Artist Essays
Not-So-Still Life with Children By Christine Taylor Patten Without my four sons, I would be a different artist. They were born one right after the other—the oldest was four when the fourth was born—simplifying as many complications as were created. I dearly wanted a...
by Ann Landi | Jan 20, 2016 | Artist Essays
On the Shoulders of Giants By Annie Shaver-Crandell “If I have seen further (than you and Descartes) it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants.” Sir Isaac Newton, in a letter to Robert HookeI feel somewhat this way about being a painter after...
by Ann Landi | Dec 21, 2015 | Artist Essays
Josef Albers: Beyond Light and Shade By Mitchell Johnson Most of Josef Albers’s paintings are very unusual and far more complex than they initially appear; they are not about Op art, color theory, or Minimalism. They are about paying attention. Just as his famous book...
by Millicent Young | Dec 11, 2015 | Artist Essays
“How did you decide to become an artist?” Artist Essay by Millicent Young My father asked me this question during the last months of his life. As a young man he had made the decision to not pursue a life as a concert pianist, choosing a career that was both more...
