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http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-frank-bowling
Painter Frank Bowling discusses his work in a new video filmed in his studio.
Bowling remarks: "In my youth I tended to look at the tragic side of human behavior an try and reflect that in my work, but gradually, as I became more involved in the making of paintings, I realized that one of the main ingredients in making paintings was color - and geometry - and I found this was the place I felt the most comfortable, and I've been going along this track ever since." He continues, describing his painting process in detail, noting: "It all happens very much in an extemporary way. I don't have any pre-plan idea about how I'm going to make a painting."
Submitted by Brett Baker on April 19, 2012
In one of a recently posted series of videos from Betty Cuningham Gallery, painter Gordon Moore discusses his work and the experience of being a artist.
Moore notes that over time: "you become very clear about what's essential and what isn't, and gradually that leads to a specific direction, in which the path becomes much clearer for you, much more open and I think that's the one great virtue of staying with something… If you pay attention and you're alert you start making progress…" He continues: "I'm feeling better and better about first of all the opportunities, the possibilities, the expansive possibilities of what I can do with this material - paint - and secondly that what I'm doing is more formed because it's based on… constantly looking and making."
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http://youtu.be/kQiPAhNvZpY
James Kalm creates an in depth to of video tour of paintings by Forrest Bess recently on view at Christie's and at the Whitney Biennial, on view through May 27, 2012.
Kalm's video includes fantastic close-ups of Bess' paintings. He notes that Bess is "one of the most mythic and eccentric American painters of the Twentieth Century... this program records over twenty-six minutes of paintings, possibly documenting twenty-five percent of his life's output."
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http://youtu.be/OWsgIfQpP7c
James Kalm visits the exhibition Stanley Whitney: Left to Right at Team Gallery, New York, on view through April 28, 2012.
Kalm notes that Whitney's "approach to color and rhythm are akin to the spontaneous riffs of great jazz solos. With this latest exhibition, Stanley shows three major paintings that show his ability to extend his vision in scale, as well as a group of intimate studies that feature luscious color combinations and deft paint handling."
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http://abstractcritical.com/2012/03/beyond-time-william-turnbull/
Alex Turnbull and Pete Stern post an excerpt from their documentary Beyond Time: William Turnbull.
In the clip painter and sculptor William Turnbull "discusses the relation his experiences as a pilot during World War II had on the development of his art, and specifically his attitude to abstraction.
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http://undercoverpainter.blogspot.com/2012/03/peter-sharp-in-conversation.html
Video interview with painter Peter Sharp about his work and process, posted on the occasion of the exhibition Peter Sharp: Will To Form at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Sharp says: "The work will end up as an abstraction of something, but everything comes from the drawing... The work that I make has to do with the experience of place. I surf and I fish. And me being interested in nature and how it fits together and its machinations, is probably a product of me growing up in this area."
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http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com/2012/03/michael-berryhill-march-2012.html
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Michael Berryhill.
Asked about his paintings, in which gestural abstraction and imagery blend together, Berryhill remarks "There's something about the searching for the thing you don't know what it is, the invention part I like, so when I get something in a drawing, I like, to work on it until it feels like a thing."
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http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com/2012/03/brett-baker-march-2012.html
Thanks to Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy for meeting me at East River State Park, Williamsburg to discuss my work for their incredible video blog Gorky's Granddaughter.
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http://channel.tate.org.uk/tateshots-blog/2012/03/08/tateshots-charline-von-heyl/
Charline von Heyl and curator Gavin Delahunty walk through a new exhibition of von Heyl's paintings on view at Tate Liverpool through May 27, 2012.
Von Heyl remarks: "What I want to do with the painting is establish this relationship of now… that you are actually in the moment in front of a painting and something happens. What I want to happen is that the space between the painting and the viewer gets activated, and it activates the viewer to form a relationship, so the painting almost hovers in front of itself, between the viewer and the canvas."
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http://www.paintersbread.com/2012/03/new-sean-scully-video-bloody-canvas.html
Michael Rutherford discovers a great trailer for the documentary film Sean Scully: The Bloody Canvas, produced by Yellow Asylum Films for RTE, directed by Alan Gilsenan with photography direction by Richard Kendrick. The film mixes audio interview with footage of Scully working in his studio.
As the film begins, Scully remarks: "In my kind of art, and in a lot of performance art, where people use their bodies strenuously, there's a definite relationship between physical exertion and a kind of spirituality, so that you reach an elevated sense through this physical committment that you make, and the idea of work and craft and committment and effort all come together in a kind of revelation."
