James Amberley on the spirit of the artist and more

Chicago area painter, James Amberley, talks about the works of Claude Lorraine, Claude Monet, Paul Klee and Willem de Kooning. Listen in as he draws parallels through art history and these figures, via the subject of abstraction, the landscape and back again. Also in the talk is insightful commentary on the artist's spirit found throughout these themes. Listen below.

 Claude Lorraine

View of Delphi with a Procession, 1673 oil on canvas, 101.5 x 127 cm/40 x 50 inches

Art Institute of Chicago

 Claude Monet 

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1867 oil on canvas, 81.5 x 100.7cm/32 x 40 inches

Art Institute of Chicago

Paul Klee 

In the Style of Kairouan, Transferred to the Moderate, 1914 Watercolour 12.3 x 19.5 cm/5 x 8 inches

Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum, Berne

 Willem de Kooning 

Park Rosenberg, 1957 oil on canvas, 207.3 x 182.6 cm/82 x 70 inches

Private collection

James Amberley

Audio talk:

Two works by Amberley:

James Amberley

Jardin Verre, 2014 oil on paper, 20.8 x 20.8/8 x 8 inches

James Amberley

Untitled, 2013 oil on paper, 54.5 x 55.2 cm/21 x 21 inches

Other artists etc. mentioned in the talk:

Aldous Huxley
John R. Martin

Marcel Duchamp

Wassily Kandinsky

Kazimir Malevich
Robert Delaunay
George Inness
Turner
 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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Andy Anello on Leslie Hewitt

Photographer, Andy Anello, talks with me about the "Riffs on Real Time" photographic series by Leslie Hewitt. We talk scale, formal qualities, physicality of photo as object, Hewitt's influence on Anello, and he also helps the painter in me get a little closer to understanding the concerns that photographers deem important. Listen in for more!

Leslie Hewitt

 Riffs on Real Time (7 of 10), 2006–09. 

Chromogenic print, 30 × 24 inches (76.2 × 61 cm)

 Andy Anello

Leslie Hewitt's website: Leslie Hewitt

Andy Anello's website: Andy Anello

A short three minute video of Hewitt discussing her work:

Stephen Wright on Provisional Painting

Provisional painting? Noticed by Rafael Rubinstein in 2009? After further investigation, dubbed “the New Casualists” by Sharon Butler?

This “Provisional Painting,” and the way it has been executed, has been the subject of several articles recently circling the internet. This sensibility is said to produce works that are “dashed-off” and has been pointed to as “unfinished” and also that these works are an “utter failure.” So, what is it anyway? Why the buzz if it’s results are so “self-canceling?”

Here is an audio account on how all of this struck, painter, Stephen Wright. Listen to his take from a recent conversation I had with him. He has a different response to what he has seen of these developments. (some strong language).

(appearing in the audio clip, is the Red House Painters song "Funhouse")

 Stephen Wright
photo: Lorna Milburn

Below are links to three articles covering Provisional Painting:

Art in America. Provisional Painting by Raphael Rubinstein. May 2009

Two Coats of Paint. The Casualist Tendency by Sharon Butler. February 2014

Abstract Critical. Provisional Painting, Three Hypotheses by Alan Pocaro. February 2014

Also, Painters' Table has assembled a great link list to other articles. Worth a look: Painters' Table


Stephen Wright's tumblr blog: ghost fire