An Interview with David Kassan

David Kassan, Self Portrait in Motion Oil/Panel, 40 x 28 inches

David Jon Kassan (Born 1977) is a contemporary realist painter best known for his life-size realist portraits. The paintings combine figurative subjects with abstract background textures he says are inspired by such painters as Franz Kline and Robert Rauschenberg. Kassan says, “my effort to [...]

David Graeme Baker

David Graeme BakerSolstice, 2008, oil on linen, 28 x 40 inches
 
David Graeme Baker is a Maine-based painter primarily painting figures and interiors but also still life and landscape. Many of his works suggest story telling on some level and often revolve around family life, presumably his wife and two sons. These delightful paintings [...]

Jerome Witkin

Jerome Witkin January 2006 (photo from a flickr Syracuse University PhotoStream)
 
Painting Perceptions is incredibly fortunate to have talked at length with Jerome Witkin recently, thanks to Bill Murphy, who suggested the idea of an interview and helped me get in touch with Mr. Witkin. I’d again like to express my gratitude to Professor Witkin who [...]

Carolyn Pyfrom

Carolyn Pyfrom Da Settignano with Seltzer Can and Paper Under Flourescents 22 x 19 inches 2010 Oil on linen
Carolyn Pyfrom, an emerging Philadelphia based artist, is showing her work this May at the Artists’ House Gallery in Philadelphia: from May 5 to May 30, 2010. I was struck by her tonal sensitivity and [...]

Interview with Gideon Bok

Gideon Bok King of Nails 2006-2010 oil on linen, 70 x 79 inches
Guest Post and Interview by Erik Halvorsen
Throughout art history, the traditional perception of a painter’s studio is one of tranquil solitude. A space where things remain rather constant, save for the quiet accumulation of canvases in various states of completion. Gideon Bok’s depictions [...]

Elana Hagler

Elana Hagler Hallway 2005 oil on linen, 21 x 16 inches
Elana Hagler is a young emerging Pennsylvania based painter whose work I ran across in a link from her past comments on PaintingPerceptions. Her strongest figures, interiors and still-lifes transcend just demonstrating adept skills of verisimilitude and goes further to add a compelling personal [...]

David Shevlino

Reflection 2008 Oil on Panel 8 x 10 inches
David Shevlino paints a wide range of subjects but lately appears to focus on the figure and urban scenes. In many of his works, especially the landscapes, there is a wonderful balance between slow careful observation and the mad rush to capture fleeting light situations. In his [...]

Dean Fisher

Dean Fisher New Cupboard 26″ x 42″ Oil on Panel
Dean Fisher is a Connecticut-based still life and figure painter who has been included in 3 group exhibitions at the Hirschl & Adler Modern in Manhattan. He has also exhibited with the Tatistcheff Gallery. Recently I got the chance to see a few [...]

Sean Cheetham

Sean Cheetham Front and Door
Sean Cheetham (32) teaches at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art and studied with Mike Hussar at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. His classical but edgy paintings of the figure is attracting attention as new important figure painter to watch. There is an interesting article [...]

Philip Geiger

Philip Geiger Favorite Words Oil on canvas 24 X 32 inches 2006
Phillip Geiger is a noted painterly realist often painting figures in interiors. Philip Geiger received his MFA from Yale University in 1980 and shows at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NYC. He has exhibited widely and has been the recipient of numerous [...]

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