painting

A brief word on my upcoming course, THE ARTIST IS A WOMAN

I’d been thinking a lot about this course, partly inspired by reading Rachel Cusk’s latest novel, Parade, a book that narrates the changing position of the female artist in a male dominated world, a novel that also meditates, albeit implicitly, on femaleness itself, and that recognizes that femaleness may also be embodied in a man,Continue reading “A brief word on my upcoming course, THE ARTIST IS A WOMAN”

NOTE ON PHILIP GUSTON

The Impossibility of Painting If art is self-effacement to begin with, no one who has not experienced something of this will understand, the word that comes closest is perhaps touch, the ephemeral feel of the pencil in my hand as I write. Now you are writing things down that you read, making “arrangements,” drawing fromContinue reading “NOTE ON PHILIP GUSTON”