Gathering thoughts for one of the biennial Re-presenting Representation exhibitions that I curated at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York, I found paintings by Judith Belzer at a gallery on Newbury Street in Boston. Her paintings at that time were intimate examinations of the landscape that inspired the desire to develop a closer relationship with nature itself. As a New Englander I identified with her landscapes as well as with her philosophy and included one of her paintings in an exhibition in 1997.
Her world and world view were reoriented when her husband, writer Michael Pollan, was appointed to the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. She, Michael and their son, Isaac, moved from bucolic northwest Connecticut to the hills of Berkeley, California. When I visited in 2004, Isaac happily told me his mother was painting in one of the bedrooms and, indeed, she was. Her work had changed. She had stepped back and was examining the structure of live oaks and eucalyptus and considering the fact that the beautiful eucalyptus was thought to be an invasive species and a known water guzzler while, at the same time, being a fire risk. I included the new tree paintings in an exhibition at John Pence Gallery in San Francisco in 2004 and in my final Re-presenting Representation exhibition the following year.
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.