YouTube Video of Antonio Lopez Garcia painting in Madrid – Aug 2010

Painting urban views is hard enough but I can’t imagine the added frustration of “crowd control” while painting! Being famous clearly has its down sides… Thanks to Dean Fisher who just emailed this link to this new video of Antonio Lopez Garcia painting this month on the street in Madrid.

Neil Plotkin

Cherry Pile 2c 42 x 54 inches Oil on mylar 2008
Neil Plotkin’s still lifes are a fresh take of a familiar theme, fruit and vegetables on a table. The emphasis is more on pictorial organization and expression than simply making an inventory of visual components that make fruit look familiar. The cliche of fruit on [...]

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 [...]

Constance LaPalombara

Constance LaPalombara is a New Haven, Connecticut based painter making urban landscapes, landscapes and still-life. A Sept 2009 Artist’s Magazine article about Constance LaPalombara urban landscapes titled “Everytown, USA” by Tamera Lenz Muentei said:
“While she paints scenes of New Haven, Connecticut, the absence of anecdotal details and the metaphysical quality of light universalizes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Shalom Flash

Shalom Flash Tel aviv Panoramic view 7/16, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches
Shalom Flash is an Israeli painter I had the pleasure of getting to know when he was a grad student with George Nick in the mid 80’s. I also shared a window where we painted the same view of Kenmore Square in [...]

Seymour Remenick and Stuart Shils show at Steven Harvey Fine Art

From the steven harvey fine art project promotional email that was forwarded to me from Christine LaFuente who studied with Seymour Remenick in Philadelphia.
This is the first New York exhibition of former Hans Hofmann student Seymour Remenick (1923-1999) since the 1970s. It examines his work alongside that of well known contemporary painter Stuart Shils. [...]

Diana Horowitz

Diana Horowitz South View from 7 World Trade 20 x26 inches oil on linen, 2009
Maureen Mullarkey in her excellent essay on Diana Horowitz’ painting said
“DIANA HOROWITZ’ ART is one of restraint and modulation. The appeal of it lies in her retreat from self-display in service of her motifs. Behind the work is a [...]

Cindy Tower

Cindy Tower Allis Chalmers 2008 Oil and enamel on canvas 48×48 inches
This week I’m posting yet another extreme in perceptual painting – this time on the opposite end of the spectrum from my previous post on David Ligare Classism which is Cindy Tower’s blend of performance art, post-modernism and neo-expressionist ashcan school plein air painting! [...]

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