2014-10-02 22:44
Henri Rousseau (French, b. 1844-1910) worked as a toll collector, painting as a hobby until retirement. He painted in a flat, primitive style that invited much ridicule during his lifetime;… Read More
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2014-08-19 23:38
Caspar David Friedrich's (German, 1774- 1840) paintings usually intimate a sense of the earth's vastness, and are essentially metaphors for our deep and complex spiritual path through l… Read More
2014-08-12 22:45
John Marin (American, 1870-1953) is known as one of the first American modernists and a major influence on Abstract Expressionism. Alfred Stieglitz recognised his importance early on, showin… Read More
2014-08-08 14:15
April Gornik (American, b. 1953) has painted landscapes since the 1980s, at first working primarily from her imagination. After a trip to the American Southwest, she decided that some of the… Read More
2014-08-07 01:53
Fairfield Porter (American, 1907-1975) grew up in an intellectual household, and attended both Harvard and the Art Students' League. He became a well-respected art critic, but had to learn t… Read More
2014-08-07 00:20
Winslow Homer (American, 1836—1910) is best known for his marine paintings, so it's fitting that the new theme of "The Sea" begins with several of his works. His intense interest in th… Read More
2014-08-07 00:19
Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932- ) has long been fascinated with the relationship between photographic images and painting. In using photography as his primary reference, he says he ca… Read More
2014-07-23 23:50
Many people are passionate about Jenny Saville's work (British, b. 1970-), while others find it disturbing and quickly look away. In her paintings we see women as meat, their rolls… Read More
2014-07-01 01:37
Yvonne Jacquette (American, b.1934) grew up in a large family, and remembers looking up at the ceiling and down at the ground as a kind of escape from the chaos. She first be… Read More
2014-06-19 20:16
Roger Brown has recommended that we look at the work of Oswaldo Guayasamín (Ecuadorian, 1919-1999) for the current theme of the cityscape. Guayasamín's paintings often capture… Read More
2014-06-18 14:54
John Thornton filming the David Stephens show at the Center for Art in Wood (photo credit Willie Williams)John Thornton has a wide range of artistic talents and enthusiasms, and for the… Read More
2014-06-15 21:56
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Italian, 1290-1348) was one of the most important painters of the Sienese School. Sienese painting in the 13th and 14th centuries was less naturalistic than th… Read More
2014-06-11 13:59
Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988) used many different media in his visual works, including cartooning, oil painting, collage and murals. For many years Bearden was conflicted… Read More
2014-06-05 17:43
Camille Pissarro's (French, 1830–1903) bustling cityscapes with their shimmering sense of light and space are among his greatest works. He would often paint the grand boulevards a… Read More
2014-06-02 01:23
For the current theme of the cityscape, Kim Rempel has suggested that we look at the work of Canadian artist John Hartman (b. 1950-).John Hartman has been painting aerial views of… Read More
2014-05-27 15:12
John Dubrow (American, b. 1958) often spends years on his paintings. He isn't interested in capturing exactly what he sees, but instead works and then reworks the large, simplified shapes an… Read More
2014-05-21 19:11
Antonio López García (Spanish, b. 1936) gives his paintings a lot of time. In 1995 he was given the commission to paint the Spanish Royals King Juan, Carlos Queen Sofia an… Read More
2014-05-18 11:42
Ben Aronson (American, born 1958) is well known for his paintings of men on Wall Street, which could also be described as portraits of modern sophistication, stress and greed.Alchemist 67"x4… Read More
2014-05-11 19:16
Rackstraw Downes (born in Britain, 1932-) received an MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art, beginning as an abstract artist. After attending some lectures by Fairfield Porter he began… Read More
2014-05-05 12:02
Café oil on canvas 32" x 50" 2014Many painters seek to find visual beauty in the ordinary, but Philadelphia artist Larry Francis takes this pursuit a step further. His paintings of Ph… Read More
2014-04-30 15:32
Italian artist Matteo Massagrande's (b. 1959) paintings of room interiors in various states of decay are haunted by the past, yet mesmerizingly beautiful. The sizes are surprisingly sma… Read More
2014-04-15 21:51
72 N. Union Street, Rochester gelatin silver print 1958Minor White (American, 1908-1976) often photographed mundane subjects with the intention of creating an emotional and spiritual s… Read More
2014-04-15 21:49
Wolfgang Tillmans (German, 1968- ) often photographs mass produced objects such as Tupperware, cigarette lighters, magazines and newspapers along with the more typical still life subjects of… Read More
2014-04-01 23:50
Doug Ferrin has suggested American painter Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000) for the current theme of strange beauty, and says he's a huge admirer of his work.Night Garden mi… Read More
2014-04-01 13:41
Labyrinth at my Table gelatin silver print 1967Labyrinth at my Table is from the Labyrinths of Paper series by the Czechoslovakian photographer Josef Sudek (1896-1976). Two-t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Canadian artist Peter Rotter finds his inspiration in the landscape of rural Ontario, and I find his large paintings of trees especially compelling. He is able to pull graphically… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Still Life with Gun oil on linen 14"x18" 2004This gun and the battered ashtray, that goopy-looking oil painting medium and globs of paint, all resting on a paint-splattered table- who would… Read More
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