by Roger van der weyden

Saw some of their work in an exhbition at Frye ...

Quoted: When the painters who are now the young lions of the international art scene enrolled at the venerable Art Academy in Leipzig in the early 1990's, they wanted to study art as it was taught for centuries ...

Quoted: work is full of tension between depicted reality and the actuality of painting: process and material.

to chew on later...

At New York galleries till Sat. Slideshow included in article.

Quoted: The elephant in the room in both cases is the German painter Gerhard Richter, especially his drizzly gray images of the members of the Baader-Meinhof ... straightforward history paintings based on news photographs depicting (by now) famous moments from the Bush administration...

Quoted: Marion Peck Fine Art - Seattle WA, Roq La Rue Gallery

Leviathan.

YHWH

Quoted: “one-shot painting” stain technique of color field was the innovation of Helen Frankenthaler... the technique negotiated a common ground between Pollock’s heroic no-brush drip style and the expanses of saturated color favored especially by Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.