Structure and Imagery

Above image photographed by this blog's author from an installation view of work by Kevin Finklea. On view at Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, 2011. The Art and Interview blog Gorky's Granddaughter talks with artist Kevin Finklea on the occasion of his current show @ Giampietro Gallery . In the video piece Finklea discusses his process as well as his ideas on color and form. View here . Kevin Finklea All the things that cannot be said Until May 25, 2012 Giampietro Gallery 315 Peck Street New Haven, CT 06513

Ron Gorchov Exhibition continues through April 28, 2012 Cheim & Read 547 W 25th Street New York, NY 10011 catalog available Hans Hofmann: Art Like Life is Real March 15 - April 21, 2012 Ameringer McEnery Yohe 525 W 22nd Street New York, NY 10011

Installation view courtesy of Hillsboro Fine Art. © John Daly Eamon Colman April 19 - May 19, 2012 Hillsboro Fine Art 49 Parnell Square West D1Dublin, Ireland

The cover of the first U.K. edition. Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination. Above: from The Moon and Sixpence by W.S. Maugham Portrait of Paul Gauguin the inspiration for Maugham's book. Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power...

Above: New Automaton (details), 2012, acrylic on canvas, 45 x 47 in. Images © Paul Behnke