by Ann Landi | Jan 13, 2016 | Artists Choose Artists
Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines “The Brown Dot Project (TBDP),” a series of mine from 2015, has been deeply influenced by the renowned Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines, whose works investigate the way rules-based procedures construct order and meaning....
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...
by Ann Landi | Jan 13, 2016 | Did You Know?
Alex Meets Ada Alex Katz first met his wife, Ada, at an opening at the Tangier Gallery in 1958. She immediately became one of his favorite models. “I’d been painting these all-over landscapes, and then I decided to paint details like eyes and noses and mouths,”...
by Ann Landi | Jan 11, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Deborah BrownA pioneer painter in Bushwick SoundCloud Facebook After earning an undergraduate degree from Yale, painter Deborah Brown moved to New York to launch her career. Her wildly expressionist works have taken her from depictions of scrap heaps in Brooklyn...
by Ann Landi | Dec 22, 2015 | Did You Know?
The Secret of Venus Seeing Mona Kuhn’s subtly erotic nudes in the slide show that accompanies our podcast with her this week (and especially the photo titled Morgane from 2010) made me think of a book proposal I worked on more than a decade ago. I had...
