An Introduction by Elaine Sexton In the very early days of the pandemic, just before the call for all non-essential workers to stay at home, I was able to have a “studio” visit with artist Ro Lohin, whose work we featured in TQ15. For part of the year Lohin’s studio […]
JOHANNA GOODMAN’s Catalogue of Imaginary Beings with a micro-interview by Elaine Sexton ELAINE SEXTON: There’s something of the monumental, Mount Rushmore-like, in these collaged portraits, particularly the women in politics. Only with tiny heads and tiny feet, the narrative contained in massive bodies. In other pieces the “brain” matter is exaggerated. […]
ROBERT SCHULTZ’s RESURRECTIONS with a micro-interview by Elaine Sexton ELAINE SEXTON: You are part of that band of makers whose work in visual art follow careers in other media, in your case that of a poet and writer. On the surface, the literary reference, a nod to Walt Whitman […]
STEVEN EDGAR BRADBURY’S PLEIN AIR PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS with a micro-interview by Elaine Sexton ELAINE SEXTON: Your watercolors give the impression, somehow, that they have been painted on glass, or under glass, achieving a fluid and stained quality, surprisingly fresh for what one might expect of an arid climate […]
Vague Recollections of Specific Places: Louise Crandell with a micro-interview by Elaine Sexton Elaine Sexton: One immediate aspect of your work is the insistent climate, somewhere between cloudy and tense, the subjects being not quite discernible. The composition of these paintings, landscapes and other ‘scapes, on the edge-of-clarity, […]
“ALL CLEAR”: NEW WORK BY DIGBY BEAUMONT with a micro-interview by Elaine Sexton Elaine Sexton: I understand you came to painting after a life as a writer, learning from copying the masters. When you made the move from copies to original work, what drew you to portraiture, and the […]
KEVIN WIXTED: AT PLAY IN THE FIELD a micro-interview with Elaine Sexton Elaine Sexton: Your new paintings, the subject of an exhibit at the American University of Paris Fine Arts Gallery earlier this year, show a dramatic shift from grids and abstract patterns to the tropical and ecstatic, composed […]
MIRIAM ANCIS: BENDING THE RULES OF GEOMETRY a micro-interview with Elaine Sexton Elaine Sexton: I wonder if you would expand on something you’ve said of your recent sculptures, how the social and emotional charge of gender, religion and politics inform for your process. And, also, how your approach shifted […]
ELLEN MUELLER: ON SURVIVAL AS SUBJECT MATTER a micro-interview with Elaine Sexton Elaine Sexton: Something clicks when we learn movement and performance plays a role in your making of Survival Skills. Feasting, gathering, churning, evaluating, all titles of individual collages, mix history and whimsy in this new body […]
SPLIT SECONDS: THE LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS OF MICHAEL GOODWIN a micro-interview with Elaine Sexton ELAINE SEXTON: These landscapes have great presence. You seem to have stilled something fleeting, like memory, a moment in which the clouds in the sky looked spectacular or the light shaded the trees on a given day, something forgotten until […]
