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Diego Rivera: The Hammock
A perfect picture of summer? Maybe, but then it is always summer-like in Acapulco. Still a vacation is welcome at any time of year: sunshine, ocean breezes, a hammock, a good book, and a good friend....
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Henri Matisse: The Yellow Chairs
"There were very many wanting to be doing what he was doing that is to be one clearly expressing something." - Gertrude Stein, from "Matisse" (1912)There is nothing extraneous in a painting by Henri...
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Horace Pippin: Scenes From A Childhood
"Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead." - Horace Pippin"Pippin would paint for as long as seventeen hours at a stretch, holding the wrist of his injured right arm in the fist...
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Francis Ponge: Babillage
"The boat pulls up its tether, shifts its body from one foot to the other, restless and stubborn as a colt.It is however only a rather crude receptacle, a wooden spoon without a handle: but, dug out...
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Time For Bridget Riley
"In the next country over, the lotusis chocolate brown and grows tallas maize. The sole religion seemsto be bread, any kind, includingone similar to rye, but made of lotus." - excerpt from "East of...
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The Heart of the Matter
3."Every day I go to earn my breadIn the exchange where lies are marketed,Hoping my own lies will attract a bid. 4.It's Hell, It's Heaven: the...
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Elsewhere, Paradise: Patricia Chidlaw
The light in southern California - whether direct, diffused, ambient, incandescent, or fluorescent - is different than the light I grew up with in the east. We associate California with intense...
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Seraphine de Senlis: Art as Ecstatic Confession
"I realized that if, subsequently, I encouraged Seraphine de Senlis, it was not for the primitive or surrealist character of he paintings but because she belonged to the great immortals who go beyond...
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Fred Wilson: Beautiful Trouble At The Museum
"I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented n the way I want to see them" - Fred WilsonI....
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Lady Of The Beasts: Nancy Spero
"I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it." - Nancy SperoSpero believed that archetypes, exemplified in the goddesses of mythology, reverberate...
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Sheila Goloborotko: Janaina, A Yoruba Goddess
"In Rio de Janeiro they go at midnight to welcome the new year.Fresh in white garmentsbearing white candlesthey assemble by the sea.To toss old year's errorsgriefs and mistakesinto the accepting...
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Dream Life And Real Life: Olive Schreiner
Her friends described her in capacious terms, shy but warm, intellectually fearless but often overwhelmed by the difficulties of relationships with men. Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) used her dreams of...
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Beatriz Milhazes: You Never Really Arrive
"Once in a while poetry comes slinking by to be possessed. later she slips away disappears as if her home were on the far side of the moon." - Li Po& Company" by Salgado Maranhoa, translated from...
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Angela Prati: Sudden Light
"Glory of expanded noonwhen the trees give up no shade,and more and more the look of thingsis turning bronze, from excess light.Above the sun - and a dry shore;so my day is not yet done"the finest hour...
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Jozef Czapski: A Not So Empty Train Station
"Each time it is almost nothing. But that 'almost nothing' signifies everything." - Jozef CzapskiSeven large empty baggage carts cluster on a platform. In back is a train that is also empty. We...
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Get The Message?
This is an artwork based on the infamous butterfly ballot from the 2000 Presidential election that threw the Florida ballot count into question. Those holes, the ones that are punched through, were...
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Eva Hesse: An Ear In A Pond
"Don't ask what it means or what it refers to. Don't ask what the work is. See what it does." - Eva Hesse.Lucy Lippard, art critic and Hesse biographer, called the colors used in An Ear in a Pond...
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Evening, Canoe Lake: Tom Thomson
"Because we love bare hills and stunted trees/ we head north when we can,/past tiaga, tundra, rocky shoreline, ice.Where does it come from, this sparse taste/ of ours?/ How long/ did we roam this...
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All Blues: Impressionism or Gentle Realism?
I. When the Russian-born artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid created their series People's Choice paintings in the 1990s, to no one's surprise, blue was the favorite color in countries around...
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Little Houses
The poet Christina Rossetti asked rhetorically "Who has seen the wind?" Look at Ash Houses, a ceramic ensemble by Chris Rupp, and see the wind made visible through the artist's imagination. And why...
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