I lucked out with Elaine Reichek. She was in town for the unveiling of her facade project for the Gardner Museum. It’s taken from the correspondence between Mrs. G. and Henry James. David and his crew had just finished installing the piece when I met up with Elaine for a talk in the Living Room…. (read more)
I was so glad that I got the opportunity to reconnect with Dr. Jennifer Hall. She has long been an inspiration and a touchstone for me in my artistic practice and my teaching practice. Jen was recently made Professor Emerita of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she taught for over 30 years. She… (read more)
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives I went on… (read more)
Steve Locke: I have been following your work since we met at Skowhegan 2009 (and I’m lucky enough to have one of your works on paper). I have always felt an affinity for your work not just because of the subject, but because of the qualities of the paintings themselves. You have a way of… (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 have a tremendous love for the work of Kerry James Marshall. So I was completely thrilled when I heard that the Harvard Museums had acquired Untitled, his 12-panel woodcut and installed it at the Sackler Museum. The first time I saw this piece was in New York at Jack Shainman. It seemed to big… (read more)
It’s been raining for the past three days here in Sào Paulo. I have just finished installing my exhibition at Mendes Wood, a wonderful gallery here in the Jardins area. The show is called companions and it’s my first solo show with the gallery. The work is in a beautiful irregular polygon gallery with one… (read more)
Imaging Lazarus: The Undead in Contemporary Painting Steve Locke I want to avoid the obvious discussion of painting being dead. It’s not. Rather, painting has been killed several times and has been brought back to life by a certain kind of belief, or faith in it. This faith sustains painting as a practice, but recently… (read more)