“My God, What Happened to David?”
A look at the dramatic shift of an abstract painter who later became one of the founders and most prolific practitioners of the Bay Area Figurative Art Movement.
Emergence
"For me, painting is synonymous with seeing. I have always got great pleasure through the eyes." Coming out of our teachers, the places we loved, and how we find ourselves now...
My Favorite Painting: A Willem de Kooning Landscape
How cabaret singer and actress Lynne Charnay scored a Willem de Kooning landscape painting at an auction where ...
Painting Every Possible Sunset, and More
A spotlight on contemporary painter Kelly Micca: “I tried painting landscape for the first time in the Roman Forum. After that, it’s hard to return to a normal lifestyle.”
Artist to Watch: Lucas Bononi
This LA-born and NYC-based artist has been creating art full-time since 2014, a pursuit that entailed several sacrifices to make his dream a reality.
My Favorite Painting: “Children at Ice Cream Stand”
This collector grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, yet he always felt the cultural pull of the uptown neighborhood of Harlem. “When I was little, Harlem was already on my mind. It is the center of African American culture, and ..."
What It Was Like to Paint the Queen of Photorealism
"On the day of the photoshoot, we went to Audrey’s Upper West Side studio ... I was so nervous I can barely recall what anyone said. Later, I knew which shot I wanted as my reference for the painting, but would Audrey pick the same one?"
Marguerite Louppe: On Her Own
Alas, Louppe did not date her works, although she signed them with a confident flourish in a distinctive lowercase imprint. Because of this ...
Sculptor Spotlight: Susan Wakeen and a Revelation of Character
In the bronze sculptures of this artist, one finds a fullness of expression that moves beyond mere description of form to achieve ...
One-Hit Wonders in Art
As far as we can tell, neither painting was exhibited publicly, yet both are superb examples of 20th-century American social realism.