Dushko Petrovich, Regionalism, Installation in Parque El Ejido, Quito, Ecuador, 2013 Steve Locke: It’s weird because I knew you before I knew your work. I think it was the Yvonne Rainer/Rob Storr talk at BU. Afterwards, we had a bit of a chat and you told me about PAPER MONUMENT and were sweet enough to send me a few… (read more)
Steve Locke: I think you are making some very challenging and gorgeous paintings, they were a high point of the last DeCordova Biennial. The ones that Lexi Lee Sullivan chose for that show married a haptic and almost brutal paint handling to elegant and bravura drawing. The result was spell binding. Like Vija Celmins, you… (read more)
Like a lot of artists, particularly painters, I’ve made my share of self-portraits. I did these paintings to teach myself about myself, to mark time, to solve a painting problem, a variety of reasons. Not all of them are art, but the ones that are have a special place in my practice. I look at… (read more)
For those of you who missed the conversation that I had with the divine Evan Garza of FIAR at ICA/Boston about my work, the museum has created a new web cast of the lecture. The Artist’s Voice will be a regular feature of the ICA. See below: THE ARTIST’S VOICE: STEVE LOCKE WITH EVAN GARZA Thursday, September 19,… (read more)
I just finished reading Sebastian Smee’s review of the current Foster Prize show at ICA. I usually love reading him, and I usually agree with him, but this review really didn’t sit right with me. Because of the discomfort, I started to write. Increasingly, I think its vitally important for artists to actually talk and… (read more)
Armory weekend in New York. So much to see. Here’s some things I liked. Gran Fury: READ MY LIPS at 80WSE Gallery, Steinhardt School Department of Art and Art Professions at NYU. An amazing show of powerful and desperate work that spoke to a desperate time. It makes me realize how close we were when… (read more)