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)
Years ago, I had this idea that I wanted to make a painting about excess. I am not a big Rolling Stones fan, but one song, Shattered, came up when I was listening to iTunes. That ending part where Jagger sings, “Pile it up/Pile it high on the platter!” stuck in my head. It was like… (read more)
Painting is a way to see if something is possible. In a real way, exploring a motif is an investigation to see if it is possible to be painted. I wonder sometimes if something cannot be painted. Wondering is pointless, however, because the only way to know is something is paintable is to try to… (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)
I have been making watercolors for almost a year now. I started by accident really. It was around my birthday and my friends Susanna and her sister Jane invited me to come to their place in Connecticut for a few days to hang out. My friend Linda came too. Jane even made me an incredible… (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)
I have a lot of things to remember. That is why I started making these monuments. I didn’t know that they were monuments when I was started, but, like most artists, I don’t immediately know what the subject of the work is when I am making it. As I continued to make them, it was clear… (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)
A lot of what I understand visually is structured by the screen; specifically the movie screen. I watched a lot of television as a child, but the experience of seeing movies was deeply affecting. I didn’t really learn about film as an art form until I got to college. I took a film… (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)