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Jacques Callot: Line Sublime

via: The New Republic
Dan Walsh: Interview

via: Contemporary Art Daily
Gazes and Shadows

via: Aeqai

Richard Diebenkorn's Here & Now

Link to post:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/02/art-review-richard-diebenkorn-the-ocean-park-series-at-ocma.html

Feb 29

Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #43, 1971, oil on canvas (courtesy of the Orange County Museum of Art)

Christopher Knight reviews the exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series on view at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California through May 27, 2012.

Knight writes: "The narrative in these paintings is a story of their making... One result is an intensified sense of the here and now, a moment that seems right and sure and achingly ephemeral, poised to slip away. Diebenkorn's Ocean Park paintings are all about the pentimenti -- the earlier images, forms and strokes that have been changed and painted over. The surface opens to expose what lies beneath it, and the past becomes present."

via:

Culture Monster / LA Times

Diebenkorn: Provisional Action, Provisional Vision

Link to Post:

http://neotericart.com/2012/02/13/diebenkorns-ocean-park-series-provisional-action-provisional-vision-by-matthew-ballou/

Matthew Ballou looks at Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park paintings through the lens of "provisional painting."

Ballou writes that "To get a clear view of Diebenkorn's connection with provisionality one must think about the sense of compositional balance exemplified in the Ocean Park Series. It is a balance that is hard-won yet still teetering on the edge of disarray. Though the works are in some ways locked, they flicker and undulate; these are compositions that don’t always feel as if rightness was absolutely achieved."

via:

Neoteric Art

Pacific Standard Time Paintings

Link to Post:

http://slowmuse.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/pacific-standard-time-begin-the-rewrite/

Deborah Barlow posts about the paintings on view at the multi-venue art exhibition Pacific Standard Time, including paintings by Ed Moses, John Altoon, Lee Mullican, Mary Corse, Richard Diebenkorn, Ronald Davis, and Sam Francis.

Barlow writes that "The experience (of the exhibitions) as it turns out is even more overwhelming and implication-rich than I imagined... And even though I spent my early life on the West Coast and am very familiar with the work of many of these California artists, the visual impact still has me feeling a bit too dizzied to offer a linear account."

via:

Slow Muse