Philip Guston: Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973

November 21, 2009

Looks like a very interesting show of Philip Guston’s post-Abstract Expressionist work at the McKee Gallery in NYC:
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Although the MCKEE GALLERY has mounted many PHILIP GUSTON shows over the last 35 years, it has never exhibited the small oil panels together as a group. The early figurative acrylic panels were begun in 1968, [...]

Jackson Pollock, 1951

October 12, 2009

I first saw this scene in the movie, ‘The New York School’. It was one of those movies I watched over and over again in the library screening rooms at Moorhead State. All of the artist banter and Abstract Expressionist one-liner’s are priceless. It was here that I first heard Pollock’s famous retort to Hans [...]