by Ann Landi | Oct 30, 2017 | Features
Since I am the sort of person who damn near weeps when she sees a great Degas pastel (like Waiting, 1882, above), it’s not surprising that drawings are perhaps the medium closest to my heart. I love the spontaneity, the economy of means, and the sense that one is as...
by Ann Landi | Oct 10, 2016 | Features
In which a writer and critic goes back to class Please note that this story is reprinted from the ARTnews issue of October, 1995. But 20 years later, the New York Studio School “drawing marathons” still continue along the same lines, under the expert...
by Ann Landi | May 8, 2016 | Under the Radar
Marc Baseman The world according to Marc Baseman is a strange, crowded, and mysterious place. In his tiny drawings—usually less than three inches on a side—a cast of odd characters and objects competes for our attention: birds and rodents, guys in business suits, a...
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 22, 2016 | Under the Radar
Mark Sheinkman When I first met Mark Sheinkman nearly 20 years ago, he was making drawings with limited means—graphite, charcoal, erasers, and paper—and that choice of the most basic of tools has not changed much in two decades. His works are still predominantly black...
