February 4, 2009
“Lives of the Artists”
Lives of the Artists, by Calvin Tomkins, is a fun easy read that offers significant insight. Tomkins writes about meetings and interviews with several well known contemporary artists. These are not the stuffy pretentious interviews that we often find in magazines. The artists often let Tomkins into their home, into their studio, and into their [...]
The Line
A contemporary artists that I recently came across and really like is Elizabeth Silver. I found her in a magazine, I believe Art News may have reviewed her, and I was struck by her work. Her work is figurative and very gestural, using line and color to create form and interest in a very gestural [...]