Ross Bleckner, Crocodile Tears, 1985, oil on linen, 48 × 40 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery.
Ross Bleckner, Untitled, 1985, oil on linen, 48 × 40 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery.
Paintings that embody a love of materials.
The painter looks back on five decades of experimentation and how that’s generated new levels of confidence and clarity in her art.
Alphabets are limited; it’s the arrangement of letters that produces meaning.
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Graham Swift, Horton Foote, Ping Chong & Pablo Vela, and David Deutsch.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
Kara Walker
