history As many of you know I have had studios all over the city of Boston. This also means that I have moved around a lot over the course of my career here. I had a studio I loved in Hyde Park for many years, a condo I bought into. The developer was, well let’s… (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)
SL: As I have watched your work over the years, I am truly stunned by your painterly invention and your use of material. With a complete embrace of differing and often competing painterly and artistic styles-from still life, to appropriation, to expressionist mark making-you consistently and surprisingly create complex painterly fictions based on what you… (read more)
PAINT THINGS: Beyond the Stretcher at deCordova (Full disclosure: I was in this show.) Andrea Fraser: Andrea Fraser: Men on the Line, KPFK, 1972 at ICA/Boston (Full disclosure: I bought Andrea a bicycle while she was an artist-in-residence when I worked at Skowhegan. Also, one of my heroes, Gregg Bordowitz, did the Q and A… (read more)