Erin Raedeke

Still life with birdhouse oil on board 2010 24 x 24 inches
 
Erin Raedeke’s still lifes of domestic detritus bring to mind the cliche of when life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Of course, having a child is an event to be celebrated but all too often it can slow or halt the work of even [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Susan Lichtman

Visitors 2006 Oil on Linen 60 x 66 inches
If you are anywhere near Philadelphia this April, a must see is Susan Lichtman’s current show of stunning oil and gouache paintings will be part of a two-woman show with Celia Reisman at the Gross McCleaf Gallery. She is also in a group show, Tenets, at 106 [...]

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 [...]

Neil Riley

Neil Riley Bexley Interior 2009, oil on Panel, 10 x 8 inches
I am often drawn to the intimacy and freshness of small alla prima paintings where you more directly follow the artists path in the brushstrokes and marks that translate their visual experience of that moment. Getting up close with small works allows you to [...]

Mark Karnes

Mark Karnes Interior With Sugar Bowl 2000, acrylic on board, 25 x 26 inches
Over the past 30 years Mark Karnes has been painting and drawing in his Baltimore home using his familiar daily surroundings as a starting point of his subject matter. He paints neighborhood views through the many windows of his home or interiors [...]

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 [...]

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