Artists who have appeared in profiles, reviews and interviews in my blog 2010-2014
Eduardo Alvarado:
Eduardo Alvarado at Galerie d'art Anne Broitman Biarritz
Eve Ascheim:
Eve Aschheim: "Recent Paintings" at New York Studio School
William Bailey:
Skill and Subtlety: A Conversation With William Bailey
Bo Bartlett:
Bo Bartlett: "Love and Other Sacraments" at Dowling Walsh Gallery
Jean-Michel Basquiat:
Driving Mr. Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat: 80 Percent Anger and 20 Percent Mystery
Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Reply to Robert Hughes
Edith Beaucage:
Edith Beaucage: "hurluburlu" at CB1 Gallery
Christopher Benson:
Christopher Benson: 'INSIDE AND OUT' at Paul Thiebaud Gallery
Suhas Bhujbal:
Suhas Bhujbal: Peace and Quiet
Sandow Birk:
Don't Fear These Oil Rigs: They Are Just Works of Art
Margaret Bowland:
Margaret Bowland: They Say it's Wonderful
Lisa Breslow:
Seven Questions for Painter Lisa Breslow
John Brosio:
John Brosio: Tornadoes, Twisters and a Jerk in a Road
Joan Brown:
Joan Brown (1938-1990): Towards Unexpected Joy
William Theophilus Brown:
Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration
Remembering William Theophilus Brown (1919-2012)
Fatemeh Burnes:
Fatemeh Burnes: Living in the Present:
Pedro Campos:
Pedro Campos: A Bright and Shining World
Bruce Cohen:
Bruce Cohen: A Hint of Something Else
Matthew Couper:
Matthew Couper: A Devotional Painter in Las Vegas
Gustave Courbet:
Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish
Dominic Cretara:
Dominic Cretara at the Triton Museum of Art
John Currin:
John Currin's Silly Porn-Inspired Portraits Somehow Work
Robert Davidson:
Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse at the Seattle Art Museum
Eugene Delacroix:
In Santa Barbara: A Masterfully Presented Delacroix Exhibition
Robert De Niro Sr.
Robert De Niro Sr: Painter and Poet
Vincent Desiderio:
Vincent Desiderio: Painter and Theorist
Kelly Detweiler:
Kelly Detweiler at the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts
Richard Diebenkorn:
Appreciation: Richard Diebenkorn
A Visit with Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-66
Saying Goodbye to Diebenkorn
Guy Diehl:
Guy Diehl: A Dialogue with Tradition at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Grant Drumheller:
Grant Drumheller: New Paintings at Prince Street Gallery
James Doolin:
Remembering James Doolin (1932-2002)
Ten Paintings by Jim Doolin
Rob Evans:
Rob Evans: "Mystery and Metaphor"
Alan Feltus:
Alan Feltus at the Lux Art Institute
Eric Fischl:
Eric Fischl: From Bad Boy to Good Man
Edwige Fouvry:
Edwige Fouvry at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
John Frame:
John Frame: The Intuitive
Sam Francis:
Basel Mural I by Sam Francis: An Artist at the Height of his Powers
Joseph Goldyne:
Joseph Goldyne: Waterfalls
April Gornik:
April Gornik: Recent Paintings at Danese/Corey
Brenda Goodman:
Brenda Goodman: Paint Into Emotion
Philip Guston:
Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing
Kim Frohsin:
Kim Frohsin: Portraits of Numbers and The White Dahlia Series
Lawrence Gipe:
Lawrence Gipe "Salon" at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
Anne Harris:
Anne Harris: They Start With Me...
Anne Harris: "Phantasmatical: Self-Portraits" at Alexandre Gallery
Julie Heffernan:
"Boy, O Boy" at PPOW Chelsea
Julie Heffernan: "Sky is Falling"
Israel Hershberg:
Israel Hershberg: Fields of Vision
F. Scott Hess:
Feral Venus: F. Scott Hess and Giorgione
F. Scott Hess Paints a Portrait
F. Scott Hess: The Perfect Hess-Storm
Los Angeles Artist F. Scott Hess Walks the Tightrope
Damien Hirst:
When Appreciating Works of Art, Being There is Always Best
When Fame Replaces Art
Mark Innerst:
Mark Innerst at DC Moore Gallery
Keith Jacobshagen:
Keith Jacobshagen: A Golden Year
Mitchell Johnson:
Mitchell Johnson: "Are You Going With Me?"
Wolf Kahn:
Six Decades in Wolf Kahn's Landscape
Duane Keiser:
Duane Keiser: A Painting A Day
Mike Kelly:
Mike Kelley (1954-2012) and Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012) Have Gone Home
Thomas Kinkade:
Mike Kelley (1954-2012) and Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012) Have Gone Home
William Leavitt:
William Leavitt: The Peculiar, the Particular, the Familiar
David Lenz:
David Lenz: The Egalitarian Realist
David Ligare:
David Ligare at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Frank Lobdell:
Frank Lobdell: "Nothing worth anything is easy."
Romualdo Locatelli:
Romualdo Locatelli: The Artist Who Disappeared
Minjung Kim:
Minjung Kim: Predestination
Leonard Koscianski:
Leonard Koscianski: Fierceness is Useful
Lucinda Luvaas:
Lucinda Luvaas: Loving the City from a Distance
Mari Lyons:
Mari Lyons: Every Object Rightly Seen
Sangram Majumdar:
A Conversation with Sangram Majumdar
Sam Maloof:
Sam Maloof: Surrounded by Friends
JeanPaul Mallozzi:
JeanPaul Mallozzi: Emotional States
Arman Manookian:
Arman Manookian: Fragile Paradise
Rare Manookian Paintings Removed from the Hotel Hana-Maui
The Other Armenian: Arman Manookian's Short Life and his Art
Henri Matisse:
Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish
Margaret McCann:
Margaret McCann: A Painter's Vision of Atlantic City
Dan McCleary:
Dan McCleary: The Mentor
Sarah McKenzie:
A Nation of Builders and of Artists
Michael C. McMillen
Michael C. McMillen: Every Dream is New
Michael C. McMillen's "The Entropic Taxi; Final Destination" at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Hans Memling:
"Face to Face: Flanders, Florence and Renaissance Painting" at the Huntington
Adam Miller:
Adam Miller: Towards a Contemporary Mythology
Justin Mortimer:
A Painter Who Cuts Up Figures with "Knife Edge-Stuff"
John Nava:
John Nava: The Timelessness of Now
John Nava: Selected Portraits at the Vita Art Center
Royal Nebeker:
Royal Nebeker: "Life is but a dream..."
Robert Neffson:
Robert Neffson: "The City Reflects Us"
Odd Nerdrum:
An Update and Commentary on Odd Nerdrum's Harsh Prison Sentence
Odd Nerdrum: Scrotum and Taboo
When Art Worlds Don't Collide: TRAC 2014 and the Whitney Biennial
'Pupils of Apelles' at Copro Gallery: One Cult, Two Masters
Janice Nowinski:
Janice Nowinski: Naughty Postcards and the Man by the River
Manuel Ocampo:
Manuel Ocampo: Manila Vice
Georgia O'Keeffe:
Georgia O'Keeffe: "Modern Nature" at the Hyde Collection
Nathan Oliveira:
In Memoriam: Nathan Oliveira, 1928-2010
Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration
Nathan Oliveira: A Mentor and a Friend
Nathan Oliveira's Final Visions
Nathan Oliveira: Forgetting the Self
MASKS and Other Spectral Presences: Prints by Nathan Oliveira, 1952 – 1972
Eric Orr:
Eric Orr and Elizabeth Orr: Crazy Wisdom
Inside Eric Orr's "Zero Mass" at MCASD La Jolla
Sandy Ostrau:
Sandy Ostrau: "Improvisations" at Thomas Reynolds Gallery
Siddharth Parasnis:
A Conversation with Siddharth Parasnis
Hearne Pardee:
Hearne Pardee and Gina Werfel: [ he said, she said...] at Adler and Co.
David Park:
A David Park Drawing: A Gift
David Park: A Painter's Life
Edith Park Truesdell: David Park's Mentor and Ally
Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration
Michael Pearce:
Michael Pearce: Rescuing Beauty
Rod Penner:
Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass
Rod Penner at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe
Pablo Picasso:
Picasso and Braque: Cubism Revisited in the Age of the iPad
Picasso's Recession Proof Harem
Jennifer Pochinski:
Jennifer Pochinski at the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts
Jackson Pollock:
Selling Iowa's Pollock Mural: A Zen Buddhist Perspective
What Makes a Jackson Pollock Painting Worth Millions?
Astrid Preston:
Astrid Preston: New Territory at Craig Krull Gallery
David Prifti:
David Prifti (1961-2011): In Memoriam
Nadine Robbins:
An Alluring Woman with Fries and McDonaldization in Art
Mark Rothko:
At the Rothko Chapel: Art, Meditation and Reverence
Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin:
A Conversation with Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin
Julia Schwartz:
A Conversation with Julia Schwartz
Peri Schwartz:
Peri Schwartz: "Painting is Like Breathing for Me."
Steve Sas Schwartz:
Insanity: The Story of a Painting
Richard Serra:
On Taste, Richard Serra and the Green Eggs and Ham Syndrome
Hassel Smith:
Hassel Smith: A Free Spirit Remembered
Hassel Smith: The Painter of Persistent Challenges
Timothy Robert Smith
Timothy Robert Smith: "Kaleidoscopic Realism" at Copro Gallery
Daniel Sprick:
When is a Nude OK on Facebook?
Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works at the Denver Art Museum
Kyle Staver:
Kyle Staver: A Brother Honored
Kyle Staver: Into the Mythological Zone
Vonn Sumner:
Vonn Sumner: Somewhere Else
Jon Swihart:
Jean-Léon Gérôme is his Master
Sadegh Tirafkan:
In Memoriam: Sadegh Tirafkan (1965-2013)
Wayne Thiebaud:
Wayne Thiebaud: Memory Mountains
David Tomb:
David Tomb: The Art of Saving the Great Philippine Eagle
Marc Trujillo:
Fast Food Art vs. Slow Food Art
Marc Trujillo: North American Purgatory
Rogier Van Der Weyden:
"Face to Face: Flanders, Florence and Renaissance Painting" at the Huntington
Nicola Verlato:
Nicola Verlato: "Pagan Pop" at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Tim Vermeulen:
Tim Vermeulen: Speaking to Shared Experience
Nathan Walsh:
Nathan Walsh at Bernarducci Meisel
Conor Walton:
Conor Walton: Contemplating Higher Things
Andy Warhol:
The Ghosts of Chairman Mao and Andy Warhol Haunt a Hong Kong Art Auction
Robert Hughes and the Warhol Faultline: Where do you Stand?
Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans and the Decline of Connoisseurship
Ai Wei-Wei
Ai Wei-Wei's "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold" at MCASD Downtown
Gina Werfel:
Hearne Pardee and Gina Werfel: [ he said, she said...] at Adler and Co.
Aron Weisenfeld:
Aron Weisenfeld: Solstice at Arcadia Contemporary
Robert Hughes and the Warhol Faultline: Where do you Stand?
Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans and the Decline of Connoisseurship
Ai Wei-Wei
Ai Wei-Wei's "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold" at MCASD Downtown
Gina Werfel:
Hearne Pardee and Gina Werfel: [ he said, she said...] at Adler and Co.
Aron Weisenfeld:
Aron Weisenfeld: Solstice at Arcadia Contemporary
Jerome Witkin:
Jerome Witkin: Painting History, Memory and Fantasy
Paul Wonner:
Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration
Liu Xiadong:
Liu Xiadong: "Hometown Boy"
Adolf Ziegler:
Artists Respond: Can a Nazi Painting Be Seen With Fresh Eyes?
Peter Zokosky:
Peter Zokosky: The Shock of the Weird
Unsettled: Portraits by Peter Zokosky at Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles
John Zurier:
John Zurier: "Once I get there, I know where I am."
Paul Wonner:
Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration
Liu Xiadong:
Liu Xiadong: "Hometown Boy"
Adolf Ziegler:
Artists Respond: Can a Nazi Painting Be Seen With Fresh Eyes?
Peter Zokosky:
Peter Zokosky: The Shock of the Weird
Unsettled: Portraits by Peter Zokosky at Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles
John Zurier:
John Zurier: "Once I get there, I know where I am."