Tag Archive: painting

Everyday Abstraction, A Conversation With Jason Willome

Stacy Elaine Dacheux: I would like to talk abut your work: A Questionable Surface (above) and Visible Inclusions In An Obscure Plane (below). What is your process for pieces that are done in… Read More

Painting As Engagement, A Conversation with Jennifer Jarnot

Stacy Elaine Dacheux: I recently read in The New York Times Magazine about an art student named John Powers who worked in the studio for Jeff Koons in 1995. At one point, Powers… Read More

California, Will You Take Me As I Am?

I want to talk about Southern California and what it promised us, historically, and culturally. Off the top of my head, there is the gold rush. Then, there is cinema, moving pictures. Fiction.… Read More

Soothsayers

Abstract artists are such tragic and romantic figures, akin to preachers or soothsayers, conjuring up spirits, reaching for ghosts buried deep within the body. This is the mythology. Franz Kline’s paintings are spontaneous… Read More

Alcatraz Prison & Miro

When visiting Alcatraz Prison, I snapped the above photo of a particular crack and rip on the cell wall, which reminded me of  Joan Miro. “I felt a deep desire to escape. I… Read More

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