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 [...]

Notes from Rome and Siena, Italy

Critique with Stuart Shils at the Certosa
 
I’d like to offer a glimpse into my recent trip to Rome for a couple of weeks as well as my 4 weeks at the Certosa
Jerusalem Studio School Summer Art Program in Siena, Italy. Hopefully I will avoid boring anyone by having this post be less of a travelogue [...]

Elizabeth O’Reilly

Elizabeth O’Reilly, Rock Crusher and Canal 2009 Watercolor and Collage, 11½ x 15½ inches

Elizabeth O’Reilly is an Irish-American painter making watercolor and collage paintings of industrial areas such as the Gowanus Canal area of Brooklyn. She cuts out shapes with an x-acto knife from her palette of tinted watercolor papers that she [...]

Bill Murphy

Bill Murphy ALONG THE ARTHUR KILL 54 x 62 inches 2010 Watercolor on Paper
 
Bill Murphy is a Staten Island based realist artist working primarily in printmaking, drawing and painting. His website holds a dizzying array of works done since 1995 but I’m particularly drawn to his Staten Island waterfront images of urban decay, ship [...]

Jeffrey Reed

Jeffrey Reed Ballyglass Hill oil on canvas, 13 x 14 inches
Jeffrey Reed is a landscape painter showing at the Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia as well as the George Billis Gallery in New York. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, MFA and The Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA. Many of these exquisite paintings [...]

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. [...]

Langdon Quin at the University of New Hampshire’s Museum of Art

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Langdon Quin La Bottega: A Family Portrait III, 1996, 52 x 104 inches
I was lucky to get the gorgeous catalog for Langdon Quin’s current show at the The University of New Hampshire’s Museum of Art: Acts & Memory: Paintings by Langdon Quin, 1990 – 2010. This show features 35 paintings [...]

Marc Bohne continued- some questions answered

Marc Bohne just got back to me with some interesting answers to the questions I asked him previously. Rather than add these to the end of the previous post I am putting them in a new one so people will be less likely to miss it.
Larry:
Many of your smaller paintings appear to be made [...]

Marc Bohne

Marc Bohne Clearing Sky, oil on panel, 6 x 7 inches
Marc Bohne is a landscape painter from Seattle, Washington who shows at the Craig Krull Gallery in LA and will be having a show there this May. He also shows at the Meyer East Gallery in Santa Fe and a few other venues. [...]

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 [...]

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