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Aaron Zulpo on Anthony Cudahy
One man is found pulling leaves from a stem, as if counting down time. Another man stares longingly at a pile of petals.
Brian Alfred on Jo Baer
Its minimal linear elements raced around the side of the canvas and played with my expectations of where paint would normally be.
Raoul Middleman on Paul Cezanne
There is almost a metaphysical postponement of finish throughout these portraits, a hesitation as if waiting for an informant of the future to complete them.
John Michael Byrd on Kelli Scott Kelley
To my eyes, this is a love letter to the maternal archetype—the maternal ideal.
Carol Diamond on Al Held
Each hue resonates as cool or warm, deep or shallow, allowing the eye and the sensibility to soak in energy, light and form as pure color sensation.
Yvette Gellis on Katharina Grosse
Then there is the color itself - the purity of color and the psychological effects that pure color can have not only on the eye, but also on one’s emotional states and well-being.
David Humphrey on William John Whittemore
I like thinking, though, that the painting makes a complete body out of dispersed heterogeneous parts, a complicated body constrained and subdivided by guardrails, pedestals, canvas edges, bowler hats and neckties.
Johanna Robinson on Maria Lassnig
... she only painted the parts of her body that she could physically feel in the moment...
Suzanne Stryk on Maria Sibylla Merian
Most alluring to me is her enviable touch—the delicately notched antennae, chomped and curled leaves, or gooey-pale larvae casting shadows as they inch along.
Sam McKinniss on Aaron Zulpo
...the evidence of his happiness made me happy, and for that I was grateful.
Brandi Twilley on Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
... Even as invented portraits, they have that quality that “someone is home.”
Brendan Carroll on Kamrooz Aram
He has skirted being defined by tradition, modernism or post-modernism by replacing theory and ideology with personal expression.
Tom Levy on Hans Hartung
But with Hartung it felt different. He did what I am currently trying to do.
Claire Scherzinger on Kelly Richardson
...Her work is a portal for the viewer to step into as the room transforms into a theatre of the mind.
Alan Feltus on Susan Yanero
...her cast of characters played out dramas on a stage that is both circus and life as she knows it...
Elizabeth Neel on Francis Bacon
Regarding the Other in horror and finding that Other in myself, it’s impossible to look at “Study of a Baboon” and not be sucked into a vortex of abjection and a struggle for empathy.
Construction and Erasure: Matt Bollinger on Narrative in Catherine Murphy and David Byrd
While both Murphy and Byrd use form as a means to make narrative works, they also create paintings that exist on a spectrum between solidity and erasure.
Trenton Doyle Hancock on Kerry James Marshall
The cool confident stare of Marshall’s “Nat Turner” speaks directly to me as a painter, saying to accept without regret the task at hand and rewrite the master script of possibility.
Altoon Sultan on Piero di Cosimo
There I was, standing in front of this beautiful, tender, poignant painting, unable to stop weeping.