Video of a lecture given by Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in September 2013 at the de Young Museum. One of several lectures given in a daylong symposium during the exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953—1966
Some thoughtful commentary on the influences and visual conversations between these painters. Details such as her description of Wayne Thiebaud making careful schematic drawings of every painting hanging in a major show of Diebenkorn during the 60’s helps make this video a worthy viewing.
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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