Pursuing Humanity: An Interview with Simon Dinnerstein

A, 1992, detail   Simon Dinnerstein is a Brooklyn-based painter and graphic artist. He has a B.A. in history from the City College of New York, and continued his studies in painting and drawing at the Brooklyn Museum Art School.  Dinnerstein is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany, the Rome Prize for living and [...]

David Campbell Interview

David Campbell, 36 Years Old, 13×16″ 2011 click here for a larger view   David Campbell Is an emerging Pennsylvannia based painter who graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2007. He has shown in a number of venues including a 2007 solo show at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia. David is [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Alex Kanevsky

Alex Kanevsky Interview with Neil Plotkin Alex Kanevsky J.F.H. 48″ x 48″, oil on board, 2011 click here for a larger view   Many readers are familiar with Alex Kanevsky’s work but perhaps not all of his details. The internet offers a great deal of information about Mr. Kanevsky but unfortunately much of it is, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dan O’Connor

Breadstuffs 51” x 54” 2009 oil on linen click here for a larger view   While surfing the web I recently ran across Dan O’Connor’s terrific paintings and wanted to know more about him and this intriguing work. He agreed to an email interview.   Larry Groff: Can you tell us a bit about your [...]

Euan Uglow

Part Three in a series of articles about the Slade School Artist by guest writer, Neil Plotkin. Euan Uglow, Curled nude on a stool 1982-3 Oil on canvas 30 x 39 in “Most people who have the opportunity to look for hours at one painting by Uglow find their eyes traveling over the surface, perplexed [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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