All Things Art & Photography
Trained as a painter and influenced by the artists of the Italian Renaissance. The very talented Loretta Lux makes highly stylized and manipulated images of idealized children that are somehow to real to believe. It’s this tension she creates between the real and the stylized that makes her work so compelling.
via the artists web site
The New York Post ran this article claiming residents of a Tribeca apartment building are furious over being secretly photographed by artist Arne Svenson whose exhibition now runs at Julie Saul Gallery. The images are actually pretty good and in no way show any faces but how would you feel being photographed secretly day in and day out?
Arne Svenson’s Photographs Create Privacy Uproar
Next to her husband Alfred Stieglitz, Todd Webb has had more access to the artist than just about anyone. His archive is here
via the web site
Run (don’t walk) to see one of the greatest living painters working today.
Anselm Kiefer / Morgenthau Plan
@ Gagosian Gallery
May 3 – June 8, 2013
via the gallery web site
Chuck Close paints big, methodical portraits and has always depended on photographs in his art making process. This exhibition (April 16 – May 24, 2013) at Eykyn/Maclean Gallery takes you deep into his methodology by showing you his decision-making process as they progress from photograph to paint. This looks to be a rare and great show that reminds us how, optics, photography and painting have walked hand in hand since before the invention of the Camera Lucida.
“That is the great thing about the maquettes. You see the decisions that I made, where those lines fall … And if someone were going to take a lot of time analyzing them I think they would find that there’s a method in the madness.”
–Chuck Close, 2013
via gallery web site