Structure and Imagery

I am very happy to have work included in this upcoming exhibition curated by Karen Levitov. Form and Facture: New Painting and Sculpture from New York Rachel Beach   Paul Behnke   Matthew Neil Gehring   Osamu Kobayashi   Rebecca Murtaugh    Fran O'Neill curated by Karen Levitov Opening: Saturday, November 1, 7 -9 PM November 1 - December 13, 2014 Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery Staller Center for the Arts Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794

Portrait of Joan Didion ©1972 Julian Wasser Also applies to painting . . . .  INT :  You have said that writing is a hostile act; I have always wanted to ask you why. JD :  It's hostile in that you're trying to make somebody see something the way you see it, trying to impose your idea, your picture. It's hostile to try to wrench around someone else's mind that way. Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.   From "The Paris Review"/The Art of Fiction/Number 71/

Andrew Seto , Rigor Mortis , 2014, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40x30 cm. London Calling works selected by Erin Lawlor Andrew Bick   Katrina Blannin   Dragica Carlin   Clem Crosby   Vincent Hawkins   Erin Lawlor   Caterina Lewis   Katie Pratt   Andrew Seto Opening: September 20, 6:00 PM public talk w/ Erin Lawlor: 5:30 PM Look & Listen La ville de Saint Chamas 13250 France

  EC , Defeating Silence , 2014, household paint, acrylic, oil, and collage on canvas, 102x104 cm. As Wide As A Door Is Open: Material Images Dominic Beattie   Stephen Buckley   John Bunker   EC   Christopher McSherry Opening: Friday, September 5th, 6 - 9 PM September 5 - October 11, 2014 Fold Gallery London 15 Clerkenwell Close London EC1R 0AA Deborah Zlotsky, Senetto , 2014, oil on canvas, 48x48 in. Deborah Zlotsky : It happened, but not to you Opening: Friday, September 12, 6 - 8 PM September 11 - October 11, 2014 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts 529 W 20th Street, 6W New York, NY 10011   Todd Bienvenu, Backseat , 2013, oil on canvas, 47x37.5 in. Todd Bienvenu : Borrowing Tomorrow's Fun Opening: Friday, September 5, 6 - 9 PM September 5 - September 30, 2014 Life on Mars Gallery 56 Bogart St. Brooklyn, NY 11206 Georgina Pollard, 2014, Yesn' no , acrylic house pai...

Robert Otto Epstein in his studio, Maplewood, NJ 2014 I recently had the opportunity to visit the Maplewood, NJ studio of painter Robert Otto Epstein . Epstein's colorful and meticulous grid-based work draws from a variety of surprising sources and often employs color placement strategies related to chance or more formal systems devised by the artist. In Epstein's case, however, the conceptual elements and source material can be seen as a means to an end that enhances the work but does not encompass it. The finished paintings move beyond their sources and become something all together different. Many times transcendent, the compositions and colors seem in flux and flow along the channels of their boundaries seeming at first abstract, then a mandala or landscape and then a ball player all within the borders of the same piece. Epstein is very active in the Bushwick art scene and recently his work has been featured in  exhibits at Mulherin +...

Bite Me , 2014   Installation view w/ Painted Pony , 2013  Installation view w/ Knot , 2013   Installation view w/ Knot , 2013 Last Saturday I took a drive up to Hudson, NY to meet with Brenda Goodman and view her current show of new paintings at John Davis Gallery. A resident of New York's Bowery for just over thirty years, the Detroit native now lives and works in Pine Hill, NY. The work featured in Brenda Goodman is a tour de force weaving together figurative elements and abstraction into a seamless cloth. The result is equal parts personal narrative, metaphor and formal, hard won, painterly elements.  Stunning and pictorially inventive, this new body of work joins Goodman's previous efforts in setting her apart from her contemporaries as a painter willing to do the hard, long work of mining the private and public spaces she inhabits. She then translates these into a unique and powerful visual language. Brenda Goodman is on vi...