A comprehensive 2018 interview with Rackstraw Downes and Sharon Corwin, chief curator, and director of Maine’s Colby College Museum of Art. The interview discusses his evolution, practice, and insights as one of our greatest living contemporary landscape painters. This talk includes a concurrent slide show with some fascinating examples of lesser-known early work.
Colby Museum presented artist Rackstraw Downes with the 2018 Cummings Award for Artistic Excellence. On July 14, 2018, as part of the Museum’s annual summer luncheon, Sharon Corwin, the Museum’s Carolyn Muzzy Director, and Chief Curator, sat down with Rackstraw Downes to discuss the creation process of his works, his career trajectory, and his connections to Maine.
Painting Perceptions was started in 2009 by Larry Groff to promote the ideas, practice and experience of painters working from observation in a modernist vein from around the world through interviews, essays, videos and community. It later evolved to include imagination-based and abstract painting as well.
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