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 [...]

New Film on Lucian Freud

Here is a link to the trailer for the new movie The God of Small Things, Lucian Freud Captured on Film by the filmmaker Tim Meara. His new film, with footage of Lucian Freud and his Holland Park studio and interviews with people close to Freud will begin showing in time for Freud’s 90th [...]

Interview with Sangram Majumdar

Sangram is a leading contemporary painterly representational painter who primarily paints from observation. He currently has two shows in New York City as part of the Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, current paintings showing until December 31, 2009 at the Schlesinger Gallery, 24 E 73rd St. NY, NY and a show of drawings up [...]

Stuart Shils – video on making a monotype

I just ran across this terrific brief video with Stuart Shils talking about his making a monotype from drawings. You can click on the video at the end to take you to youtube for part 2.
Stuart Shils’ website not only shows his paintings but also has a couple of clips from a documentary made about [...]

Philip Pearlstein

Philip Pearlstein Two models in a window with cast iron toys, oil on canvas 1987 72 x 72 inches

Video of Philip Pearlstein in his NY studio
A couple of Philip Pearlstein shows are going on that may be of interest. At the Betty Cuningham Gallery PEARLSTEIN/HELD: Five Decades
Works by Pearlstein and Al Held [...]

Antonio López García on YouTube

I found these videos on youtube and thought people would want to see these. Only the first video has the english translation, where he talks about his monumental show at the Boston MFA last year. The next video is in two parts of him talking about his work – make me want to pull out [...]

Interview with George Nick Part Six, On the Trojan Horse and thoughts on Teaching

George Nick Trojan Horse 2008 oil on linen 30 x 30 inches
Interview with George Nick Part Six, On the Trojan Horse and thoughts on Teaching
Larry Groff:
In your last show at the Gallery Naga, I heard you say that the still life of the painted horse in drapery, as being the strongest painting in [...]

Interview with George Nick, Part Five, On Drawing

George Nick drawing for a painting on site 2008 from the BostonZest.com
Interview with George Nick, Part Five, On Drawing
Larry Groff:
You often spend a great deal of time on the drawing for your larger, more complex paintings, sometimes spending weeks before starting to paint.
Do you work out the compositions by looking through the viewfinder before [...]

Interview with George Nick Part Four, On Cezanne and color

George Nick Punta Carena, Capri 1993 oil on linen 28 x 38 inches
Interview with George Nick Part Four, On Cezanne and color

Larry Groff:
You’ve often talked about Cézanne in color. You said something like, “Painting from nature is not copying the object. It is realizing one’s sensations.”
Can you speak about how Cézanne has influenced [...]

Interview with George Nick Part Three, On George Bellows

George Nick Rt 93 2005 oil on linen 36 x 60 inches
Interview with George Nick Part Three, On George Bellows
Larry Groff:
You’ve expressed affinity with the Ashcan School of Painters, such as George Bellows. What aspect of this work interests you the most? Is there such a thing as Neo-Ashcan, and if so, would [...]

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