by Ann Landi | Sep 24, 2016 | Features
A Major Abstract Artist of the 20th Century Begins To Get Her Due I first stumbled upon the paintings of Dorothy Hood about five years ago, in the home of collector and artist Dora Dillistone. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that I was completely blown away....
by Ann Landi | Jul 22, 2016 | Under the Radar
“Not everything has to shout,” Jan Marie Sessler said to me during a studio visit a couple of years ago. And indeed in her prints, paintings, and sculpture she shows a reticence and delicacy that would seem to belong to a bygone era—if not for the wit and spontaneity...
by Ann Landi | Apr 2, 2016 | Under the Radar
Don Porcaro Don Porcaro has described his sculptures as occupying a psychic space somewhere between that of “the monster and the child.” They have strange appendages resembling toy-like plumbing, monstrous clumsy “feet,” and odd garments that could at any moment morph...
by Ann Landi | Feb 27, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Kathy ButterlyAmazing Feats of Clay on a Diminutive Scale SoundCloud Facebook One of today’s most imaginative artists working in clay, Kathy Butterly makes small sculptures that are engaging, comical, disturbing, and wholly unexpected adventures in this tricky...
by Ann Landi | Jan 13, 2016 | Under the Radar
Elisabeth Condon “I never wanted to be a flower painter. I wanted to be a tough, cool painter,” says Elisabeth Condon in her fifth-floor studio on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where she is surrounded by several large canvases that incorporate, yes, flowers—lush...
