Structure and Imagery

Cuts, Shapes, Breaks and Scrapes  at Seventeen   Mali Morris  Hannah Lees, Merlin James and Elizabeth Murray   Merlin James  Merlin James  Betty Parsons   Painter, Karl Bielik , taking in an incredible work by Mali Morris info Tom Wesselmann: Collages 1959 - 1964 at David Zwirner info David Shrigley: Drawings and Paintings at Stephen Friedman Gallery info Dropping the Guru at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery  Two works by David Roeder  Stefanie Heinze   Installation view of works by Ana Prata   Clem Crosby displayed in the back room at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery info  Grabbing a pint or two with Karl where Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach caroused.   Hackney Road near the hotel.   Albert Memorial   Albert Memorial  Royal Alber...

A Tree for Peter , 2013, oil on panel, 12 x 11 inches. Into December: Red Hook, Brooklyn , 2014, oil on panel, 12 x 11 inches. October's End, Red Hook, Brooklyn , 2014, oil on panel, 12 x 11 in. Late Winter: Red Hook, Brooklyn , 2014, oil on panel, 15 x 20 inches. David Pollack is a Brooklyn based painter and musician. From his studio in Red Hook he paints encrusted works that are much more sublime than that adjective implies.  His surfaces can be gemlike or move towards the monochrome but both evoke the light and élan found in the  glistening  seasons and environments that inspire them. Framed Winter Paintings , 2014 Into September: Red Hook, Brooklyn , 2014, oil on panel, 9 x 8 inches. From the Artist's Statement: If an artist comes to nature quietly and humbly, he will always walk away with the answer. To me, that is the secret of painting (and making any kind of art for that matter).  So, ...

"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing." Head of J.Y.M., 1969 J.Y.M. Seated, 1986-87 To The Studio, 1982-83 Frank Auerbach , London 1962,photograph by  Lord Snowdon (c) "To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination." Figure on a Bed, 1969 E.O.W. Half-Length Nude, 1958 Railway Arches, Bethnal Green II 1958-59 Frank Auerbach in his studio holding his picture of the building site on Earl's Court Road in 1953 Maples Demolition, 1960 Frank Auerbach  Portrait of Catherine Lampert  (1981-2) Head of E.O.W. 1955 (c) Photograph by Bob Collins "It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning....