Painting Perceptions

Interview with Ying Li

I’m honored and very pleased to have interviewed the distinguished painter Ying Li with an audio podcast that you can listen from the links below. The edited, written version below of our skype conversation was made just prior to the start of her solo exhibition at the Haverford College titled Geographies, which is up until […]

Interview with Zoey Frank

After having been long intrigued and impressed with Zoey Frank’s paintings I recently asked her for an interview. I would like to thank Ms. Frank for agreeing to this email and Skype interview and taking the time out from her busy schedule. You can listen to the podcast version (completely different than the text version seen here) from […]

Interview with Chelsea James

I’m pleased to share a recent skype conversation and email interview with fabulous young painter Chelsea James to talk about her unique approach to painting landscapes, interiors and still life. James is currently a Utah based artist but with an eye on moving to France with her family in the near future. She shows with […]

Interview with Charles Ritchie

I am pleased to share this email interview with the incredible Silver Spring, Maryland based artist Charles Ritchie who for the past 30 years has drawn from his home and neighborhood as the starting point for deeply personal drawings, journals, prints, and paintings. Ritchie has made 143 complete volumes of his art journals since 1977 many […]

Kyle Staver’s Eloquent Color

Excerpt from John Goodrich’s Review of Kyle Staver at Kent Fine Art:
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Review by John Goodrich, guest contributor

Kyle Staver at Kent Fine Art

Kyle Staver is a colorist, and one of the best around – which is only to say that in her paintings she makes every color count. In art school, they drill into students the three properties of color – hue, tone, intensity – but it’s impossible to teach what truly characterizes a color, which is its compositional weight, the way it shifts and leverages other colors. In Staver’s recent paintings at Kent Fine Art, we see human figures rescuing, battling, or simply consorting with one another in mythological and religious scenes, but the key to Staver’s exuberant storytelling lies not in the literary, but in the pictorial – in the way colors give resonance to the delight of an arcing or sinking body, or the glint on light-tinged hair, or the rounding of a thigh, whether belonging to woman, man or beast.

The artist’s latest paintings are dominated by dark colors, with forms rimmed by the light from distant, interior sources. Her surfaces seem to have become slightly smoother, her forms crisper, than in previous years, as if to concentrate on the unalloyed expressions of color-forms. A smaller room at the gallery features monoprints and relief sculptures, many repeating the motifs of the paintings.

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