Sharon Yates
The Heifer, oil on paper on panel, 8 x 10 inches
Sharon Yates is an amazing painter whose primary subject for many years has been small paintings of cows done completely from life. Out of curiosity, I made a Google image search on “cow paintings” to see what other contemporary painters were doing with the subject. There are many, perhaps too many, paintings of cows done in almost every artistic style and genre and level of skill imaginable. But what I didn’t see was paintings made, not from photos, but made while being out in a field actually looking at the cows. Rarer still are cow paintings made from life where the subject isn’t just the cow but also about the act of painting and the paint itself.
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William Barnes
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Video interview with Michael Kareken
Interview with Michael Kareken from Painting Perceptions - Larry Groff on Vimeo. Painting Perceptions is pleased to present its first video production; an interview I made with Michael Kareken at both his studio and his show "Scrap" at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which is currently on view until January 24, 2010. Click image for larger view Michael Kareken Scrap Bottles, 2009, Oil on canvas, 108 x 168 inches HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
“The Common Object” still-life show with the Zeuxis group
Richard Baker 31 artists either members or guests of the Zeuxis association of still-life painters, agreed to paint a still-life that somehow included an ordinary dish towel ("The Common Object") that was sent to each artist. It is fascinating to see the wide range of interpretation from being the central focus to barely noticeable. Some of my favorites are the works by Lucy Barber, Anthony Martino, Sydney Licht, Mark Karnes, Elizabeth Geiger, Catherine Kehoe and William Barnes. Zeuxis is an association of still life painters that was started in 1994 in NYC. They have held over forty exhibitions around the country. ...
Marc Bohne
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Henry Finkelstein interview at the Jerusalem Studio School blog
Henry Finkelstein The Greenhouse III, oil on canvas, 34 x 46 inches Fascinating interview with Henry Finkelstein on the Jerusalem Studio School blog by Rebecca Harp, he is currently teaching a landscape painting workshop there. Henry Finkelstein graduated from the Cooper Union and the Yale School of Art and is a former Fulbright fellow and has taught drawing and painting at the National Academy of Design in New York. A 2003 Art in America article stated; "... he renders the landscape in a loose, lyric manner that makes him heir to the abstract-leaning, nature-based esthetic of his much-admired parents, ...
Interview with Sangram Majumdar
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Neil Riley
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Mark Karnes
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Interview with Eric Aho – Part One
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Interview with George Nick – Part One, On Edwin Dickinson
George Nick 1 Feb 2009 2009 oil on linen 14x10 inches George Nick hardly needs an introduction; he is one of the most respected contemporary realist painters working today. George Nick's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Hirschhorn Museum; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., as well as many other important collections. He shows at the Gallery Naga in Boston and shows in many other leading galleries in New York and around the world. He paints exclusively from observation, often works on large ...
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