Chuck Close – New Work, New Show, New York
I’ve written about Chuck Close before. He’s amazing, in short. He has worked with really large portraits of peoples’ faces worked in different kinds of grid treatments since the 60s, really playing with the line between theory and craft. It’s…
Scott Conary
Scott Conary is a painter originally from the east coast but now living & working in Portland, OR. It seems like every American painter I’ve noticed over the last year lives in Brooklyn or Portland. In any case, I was…
Kevin Peterson, Painter
I was checking out the Juxtapoz website (as I often do) and they had a feature on a pretty cool artist named Kevin Peterson who, judging by the thumbnails, took photos of people in front of graffiti in urban settings….
Meghan Howland
Checking out the ever-excellent art blog, I Need A Guide, I saw a bunch of work by Meghan Howland. Howland is a Massachussetts native who now works & lives in Portland, ME. Howland is one of those artists who does not…
Martin Wittfooth – update
A while ago I wrote about Martin Wittfooth, but to recap: Martin Wittfooth is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in Toronto, Canada in 1981 but spent most of his childhood in Finland. He’s a…