by Ann Landi | Mar 14, 2021 | Features
There were times, when he was younger, that Bob Richardson felt a pull toward art. As a teenager in South Orange, NJ, he attended the Art Students League in New York, where he took drawing classes with a painter named Tom Fogarty, who taught him that “line has...
by Ann Landi | Feb 28, 2021 | Features
For most of her 40-year career, Susan Chorpenning has in one way or another been involved with light, and “with the sensual experience of looking and the perceptual experience of seeing,” as she puts it on her website. In one of her early “Light Rooms,” a temporal...
by Lee Albert Hill | Feb 28, 2021 | Features
By Lee Albert Hill As a painter myself I am drawn to the work of other painters first and foremost. Especially those who demonstrate a dedication to a lush, hands-on, painterly approach and an emphasis on refined craft and detail. For this curation I have chosen...
by Ann Landi | Feb 14, 2021 | Features
Need an affordable but impressive gift? Got empty shelves and wall space? Artists come to the rescue…. These are tough times for everyone, but especially for artists who have lost teaching gigs, commissions, and gallery shows. Small wonder some are turning to...
by Ann Landi | Feb 14, 2021 | Features
No doubt there are those who are familiar with the paintings of Maria Lassnig, the Austrian-born artist who kicked off Kate Petley’s round of fantasy curating on the site two weeks ago. But I had never heard of her before and was beguiled by Lassnig’s You or Me...
by Kate Petley | Jan 31, 2021 | Features
By Kate Petley Contemporary portraiture is so diverse that creating a comprehensive list of artists is futile. I selected these particular works for their power, humor, cleverness, rawness, and beauty. Reflecting a broad interpretation of what qualifies as a portrait,...
