Interview with Judith Green

Judith Green, Mulberry | Oil & Graphite on Linen laid on Panel | 25 x 40cm
 
Painting Perceptions is again very fortunate to have a guest interview from Neil Plotkin who has been living in London for the summer. In this first of a few articles about perceptual painters in the UK he [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Stuart Shils at the JSS blog

Rebecca Harp has a long interview with Stuart Shils on behalf of the Jerusalem Studio School as a prelude to a Master Class workshop in monotype that Stuart Shils is giving there. The interview questions are very thoughtful and get Stuart Shils to open up with many inspired thoughts on painting and perception.
This was one [...]

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 [...]

Wayne Thiebaud – some inspirations for the new year

More than any other painter, Wayne Thiebaud makes me smile when I see his work. He is not only one of the world’s greatest living painters but he also seems the best way to start the new year. There is an affirmation of life in his obvious joy of paint and color together with his [...]

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.
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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 [...]

Interview with Eric Aho – Part Three

Larry Groff:
You’ve touched, actually, on this question, on some of the other things, but you might find something new to say here. My question is, in many of your earlier paintings, many times I see a brighter, more naturalistic feel. You would often include more specific, recognizable forms, such as houses, barns, more obvious signs [...]

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