I still remember the first Phil Geiger painting I ever saw. It made a gentle but immediate impression on me and has stayed with me all these years. It was a medium-sized painting of a beat-up, under-maintained suburban athletic field […]
Even now, several years after she died, I still see Juno curled up in her chair when I first walk in the room. I still smell her; that warm, doggie smell- sometimes leathery, sometimes something riper. But always the smell […]
It was at The League that Francis Cunningham met the artist whose teachings hit him with the force of revelation- Edwin Dickinson. Dickinson introduced him to the tool that would consume Cunningham for the entirety of his career; the color-spot. A […]
Christopher Gallego’s Tenth Avenue drawing series I could give all to Time except – exceptWhat I myself have held. But why declareThe things forbidden that while the Customs sleptI have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,And what I would not […]
Lennart Anderson: A RetrospectiveThe New York Studio School, October 18 – November 28, 2021 I distinctly remember my high school painting teacher, Francis Cunningham, criticizing a student’s still-life painting, and the question came down to choice of objects. He said […]
Walking through the landscape, your eyes unconsciously register the broad visual characteristics of the day: the color harmonies proffered by the weather and the season, and the general note of the vegetation. It also notes the big relationship of the […]
The model sits within the frame with the formality and elegance of a Pollaiuolo. They both have elegantly coiffed headdresses—each, very much of its time. Ralph’s massive, spongey dreadlocks place him as the latest in a line of men going […]
In the painting, a single ocean wave rolls gently towards the shore. It is a murky greenish-blue, as if it arose out of the misty background of a Leonardo. The wave is briny and heavily laden with sand as […]
A drawing like this involves seeing, reacting, and remembering. With the pen in continual movement, the drawing embodies a seamless coordination of hand, eye, mind, and heart.
Renowned for his figures, an artist turns to the geometric bodies of cities and nighttime shadows.