Interview with John Dubrow

John Dubrow in his studio Interview with John Dubrow by Xico Greenwald   John Dubrow has been making ambitious figurative paintings of New York City scenes since he moved to Brooklyn in the mid-1980s. His light-filled canvases are often years in the making—ragged, impastoed surfaces the result of the high standard Dubrow holds himself to. With a [...]

The Civita Experience

Corot’s view of Civita from Terrano   I’m finally able to post about my experience this past summer at the Jerusalem Studio School Summer Art Program in Civita Castellana, Italy. As many readers may know I’ve been helping the JSS with their blog and in promoting their summer program. I also asked a few other [...]

Planning for the JSS Master Workshop in Civita Castellana this summer

Corot, Rocks at Civita Castellana, 1827,   A few days ago I made my decision to attend the Jerusalem Studio School Master Class Workshop in Civita Castellana, Italy this summer. I had previously been planning a trip to Jerusalem to attend the JSS landscape painting marathon where Antonio Lopez Garcia had been invited to teach [...]

Fairfield Porter – “Mystery that is Essential to Reality”

Fairfield Porter, Painting Materials 1949   Fairfield Porter has been on my mind recently which led me to finding some interesting articles, books and links related to Porter’s paintings that I’d like to share. A recurring theme that often reverberates back and forth inside my head is the notion about painting nature the way you [...]

Interview with Stuart Shils

Stuart Shils 2010   “If the painter is open to the world, everything becomes grist for the mill, even things one doesn’t expect or even doesn’t consciously like or want. It’s not a matter of what is “important” in the terms of the “real” world – money, new car, Armani suit. Maybe painters, poets and [...]

JSS blog article on “Seymour Remenick, An Appreciation” by Stuart Shils

Seymour Remenick   Excellent post by Rebecca Harp over at the Jerusalem Studio School Blog, “Seymour Remenick, An Appreciation” by Stuart Shils” where she posts an essay written by Stuart Shils about his former teacher, Seymour Remenick, 1923-1999. There was a recent show at the Lancaster Museum of Art. The show is no longer up [...]

Lennart Anderson Slide Talk Video

Lennart Anderson, “Self Portrait with Hammer and Nails”, 1986   “All things are understood by means of comparison. For in comparison, there lies the power that states that which is more, that which is less and that which is equivalent” Lennart Anderson from his Painting from Nature essay   “Lennart Anderson is not only a [...]

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 [...]

Slade School of Art, Part Two – William Coldstream

William Coldstream, Reclining Nude 1974-6   This is the second post in a series of posts where Neil Plotkin, who has been living in London for the summer, looks at a some significant painters coming out of the The Slade School of Art in the UK. This article introduces William Coldstream and points to where [...]

Jerome Witkin

Jerome Witkin January 2006 (photo from a flickr Syracuse University PhotoStream)   Painting Perceptions is incredibly fortunate to have talked at length with Jerome Witkin recently, thanks to Bill Murphy, who suggested the idea of an interview and helped me get in touch with Mr. Witkin. I’d again like to express my gratitude to Professor [...]

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