Tuesday night Drink & Draw 7-10 at Tribes Gallery at 285 E 3rd St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10009. The space is occupied and owned by a retired blind professor, and can get mildly rowdy and smokey at times. We’ll use the big living room, where there are ongoing art shows,...
The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya at the Frick October 5, 2010, through January 9, 2011 Spanish draftsmen of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries created works of dazzling beauty and inventiveness. Though often well versed in the traditions of Italy and Flanders, artists on the Iberian Peninsula developed their...
Malcolm T. Liepke, The Wild One, Oil on Canvas, 20" x 29" How does Liepke do it? I am clearly jealous of his work. I am jealous of his ability to paint such perfect features and lifelike hands. He can depict the moisture in eyes and lips, capturing, no, enhancing...
The New York Academy of Art, Summer Exhibition opened on Tuesday. I hadn't been to a NYAA opening in ages, so I was happy to see several people I knew, even though most people there were more recent students. Each year the NYAA churns out more talented artists. Below are some...
Richard MacDonald seems to be the figurative artist of Las Vegas. I hadn't anticipated finding much figurative work in a place where abstract art is so prominent, but I was pleasantly surprised to come across Richard MacDonald's gallery (both of them). In the picture above, I am standing in front...
I heard about this exhibition on NPR the other day. The show sounds fascinating! Unfortunately it is at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA and won't travel to any other cities in order to preserve the work. What is interesting is that they show you the...