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 [...]

Catherine Murphy at Peter Freeman Inc, April 2013 (from Gorky’s Granddaughter)

Catherine Murphy at Peter Freeman Inc, April 2013 from Gorky's Granddaughter on Vimeo.   Fascinating video by Zachary Keeting who interviews Catherine Murphy for the Gorky’s Granddaughter blog. Catherine Murphy talks about her recent work currently showing at the Peter Freeman Gallery (3/14 – 4/27/13) Great video footage of her paintings which show the paintings close up [...]

REVIEW: PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA AT THE FRICK

Piero della Francesca | Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels (1480-1482) Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute click here for a high resolution view By Xico Greenwald (Painting Perceptions thanks Xico Greenwald for his generosity in allowing us to print his review here.)   The Frick Collection owns four panels by Piero della [...]

Galvanized Truth: A Tribute to George Nick

click here for a larger view George Nick’s peers and colleagues, former students/mentee’s honor him through an exhibition of his work and their own. at The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA May 20 – September 9, 2012 Curated by Kim Alemian. Galvanized Truth: A Tribute to George Nick One of my favorite essays on George [...]

Giorgio Morandi, The Essence of the Landscape

Morandi’s Viewfinder click here for a larger view   A few months ago I found out about a rare show in Alba, Italy of Giorgio Morandi’s Landscapes where some 70 landscape paintings were shown back at the beginning of this year. There was also a catalog for the show with many excellent reproductions of the [...]

Wayne Thiebaud at the Morandi Museum

THIEBAUD VIA MORANDI THIEBAUD VIA MORANDI from Victor Loh on Vimeo. The Morandi Museum in Bologna is continuing its program of exhibitions that show affinities between Morandi’s painting and the work of leading contemporary artists. In 2005 they had a homage to Josef Albers and in 2009 exhibited the work of photographers Bernd and Hilla [...]

Gabriel Laderman 1929-2011

Gabriel Laderman, View of Kuala Lampur with Birds, 1982   Gabriel Laderman passed away from Leukemia this past Thursday. Here is a link to the New York Time Obit. He was a significant representational painter and teacher and was instrumental in the revival of figurative art in the 1960s. He studied with a number of [...]

Lucian Freud: Portraits DVD and Book

Lucian Freud with Martin Gayford. Photograph: David Dawson (from a Guardian.com book review)   There is a DVD (currently only able to get in the UK) of film-maker Jake Auerbach’s Lucian Freud: Portraits. I have a 3 part, relatively long youTube excerpts that give an excellent sampling of the movie after the break.   Also, [...]

Inspirations for 2011 – Studio Visits with Wolf Kahn

Wolf Kahn Order in Disorder 2010 Oil on canvas 52 1/2 x 66 inches   Happy New Year! Last New Year Painting Perceptions celebrated with a post of various web links of sources of interviews, videos and imagery of Wayne Thiebaud. This year I decided that we would look at a few Wolf Kahn quotes, [...]

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 [...]

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