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Matt Bollinger on Gregory Gillespie
In Self-Portrait on Bed, made in 1973-74, Gregory Gillespie paints himself as a not-quite young man, some years older than I am as I write this. He sits on a mattress that sags toward the floor.
Meena Hasan on Robert Gober
I recently visited Robert Gober’s The Heart is Not a Metaphor at the MoMA, and at the core of the exhibition was a dark room with Gober’s Slides of a Changing Painting.
Barbara Friedman on Lisa Yuskavage and “Harnessing Shame”
“Okay, go ahead and look all you want, but it's going to be unpleasant for both of us.” - Lisa Yuskavage in an interview with Mónica de la Torre in Bomb magazine[i]
Anoka Faruqee on Bridget Riley
Bridget Riley described the experience of viewing her paintings as an “active, vibrating, pleasure,"[i] and was surprised and annoyed that others considered her work painful to look at.
Margaret Atkinson on Louise Fishman
In my memory the painting is titled, “Me and Joe.” It is small, maybe ten by fourteen inches. I am looking at the painting from behind the backs of several classmates who stand clustered around it.
Ford Crull on Paul Klee, The Magician
For me the truly amazing thing about Paul Klee was his incredible ability, constantly, to search out new pictorial ideas and yet simultaneously to create a unique, individual expression
Lauren Britton on Edvard Munch
I’d never seen a Munch in person before I went to visit the Munch Museum in Norway this past September. Walking its halls, I saw many of Munch’s famous works.
Doron Langberg on Jess
When I saw “The Enamored Mage” in person I was completely transfixed. Painted with heavy impasto, the protrusions of paint gush out of the surface, some following the image, some swelling under it.
Carolee Schneemann on Arthur B. Carles
How did I manage to get to the great museum on the parkway, perched like a castle above the two rivers?
Ellen Harvey on Rogier Van der Weyden
This rather battered old reproduction hangs in my studio. I’ve owned it since I was five, which is when I first and last saw the original.
Austin Furtak-Cole on Duccio di Buoninsegna
I was introduced to this painting in an undergraduate art history survey class and didn’t think much of it.
Virginia Wagner on Wangechi Mutu
It was a Lord of the Flies summer. I was coming from an undergraduate art program that served only to nurture the special seed...
Elaine S. Wilson on Sandra Stone
A small painting: 12 inches wide by 16 inches high. Thin, lightly touched scrapes and dabs of paint in ochres, viridian greens, and a flurry of blues.
