Interview with Tim Kennedy

Tim Kennedy Jane and Rose 34″ x 48″ oil on linen click here for a larger view   I pleased to present a telephone conversation I had recently with Tim Kennedy, a Bloomington, Indiana painter who teaches at Indiana University and shows at the First Street Gallery in NYC where he is currently having a [...]

JSS Benefit Auction

  Several members of the Jerusalem Studio School faculty, visiting artists and friends have generously contributed their thoughts and experience with interviews and articles on Painting Perceptions over the past couple of years. The Jerusalem Studio School was founded by Israel Hershberg in 1998 where it not only pioneered figurative art training in Israel but [...]

Scott Noel: A Life in Paint

Scott Noel, Enceinte, oil on linen, 34 x 46 inches courtesy of the Gross Mccleaf Gallery   Scott Noel: A Life in Paint By Elana Hagler (Guest Writer for Painting Perceptions)   As I enter through the door in the side of the large industrial building in Manayunk, a slightly run-down but vigorous town of [...]

Barnet Rubenstein 1923-2002

  I recently received a wonderful essay from a former student of Barney Rubenstein who is generous and kind enough to share some of his experience studying with Barnet Rubenstein. Barney (as he was known) was an important figurative painter in Boston, painting primarily still-life, often painting take-out food containers, cardboard boxes, jars of cookies, [...]

Nicole McCormick Santiago

Nicole McCormick Santiago Nap Time No. 2, oil on canvas, 48 x 63 in.   click here for a larger view   Many thanks to Nicole McCormick Santiago, a terrific young painter who was gracious to agree to an email interview. I was intrigued by her paintings when I first saw them posted here in [...]

Stephen Magsig

Stephan Magsig Shadows at 53 Greene St, oil on linen, 60 x 42 inches 2007 click here for a larger view   I have been following Stephen Magsig’s realist cityscape paintings for several years and was very pleased that agreed to an email interview and want to thank him for spending the time to share [...]

Interview with Ken Tighe

Ken Tighe Salt Springs 2009 38" x 48" oil on panel click here for a larger view   I am fortunate to have known the extraordinary painter Ken Tighe since the late 80′s in Boston when several former students of George Nick as well as George himself would meet every few months for a number [...]

Brian Rego

Brian Rego, Poles and a Parking Lot, 11×11 inches   I plan to occasionally post articles where I ask one or two questions to emerging perceptual painters who explore inventive possibilities to an old tradition. The first artist in this series is Brian Rego, a painter living in South Carolina whose work impressed me by [...]

Peter Van Dyck

Peter Van Dyck, corner of ripka and wilde streets 18” x 24” oil on linen 2010   Peter Van Dyck was classically trained in the The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy 1998-2001 and now is an adjunct Faculty at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He shows at the Artists’ House [...]

Michael Kareken – new drawing and TV interview

  Michael Kareken emailed me recently to show me some exciting new drawings of wrecked cars at a salvage yard he’s been working on, exploring a possible new body of work that grows from his incredible exploration of his recycle series subject matter. These drawings are all works in progress but I find that all [...]

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