Recent Paintings highlights work by Christopher Brown done in the last year. This exhibition includes familiar imagery used by the artist including bicycle and horse races and explores Brown’s continued interest in the relationship between movement and light. These paintings feature figurative imagery with broad landscape panoramas that showcase not only the painterly quality to [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Saint-Rémy
Image at left: The Road Menders, c. November 1889, Saint-Rémy During the time Van Gogh painted The Road Menders, he was still at the hospital in Saint-Rémy, but feeling much better. In his writing to Theo telling him so, he said that he was sending off three parcels to him and let him know that [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1889 in Saint-Rémy
Image at left: Pine Trees Against a Red Sky with Setting Sun, c. November 1889, Saint-Rémy Van Gogh seemed to be enjoying his time working outside, even though the fall mistral have arrived. The mistrals are a cold, dry wind, lasting only a few days at a time, that sweep down the Rhone valley from [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Saint-Rémy
Image at left: Portrait of Superintendant Trabuc in St. Paul’s Hospital, c. September 1889 In his letters to Theo, Vincent complained often of the lack of treatment they, he and the other patients, were receiving at the hospital. But even so, he had the head warder, Superintendant Trabuc, sit for him so that he could [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Saint-Rémy
Image at left: Self-Portrait, c. September 1889 Vincent Van Gogh was no stranger to the self-portrait and his time spent in Saint-Rémy did not stop his study of his own reflection. About this one he wrote to his brother Theo: Altogether I should rather have a downright illness like this than to be as I [...]
Heidi McDowell At ArtZone 461
McDowell explores our contemporary relationship to the landscape as shaped by digital media and car culture. She incorporates digital artifacts, dust on a lens, car window reflections and other ‘aberrations’ found in photographic source materials, thus celebrating the way these otherwise unwanted mistakes highlight the colors and textures of the natural world. Her goal is [...]
Making the Road by Walking At The Compound Gallery
Making the road by walking showcases new work by two painters whose work is heavily influenced by their own travel experiences. For both Thomas Haag and Martin Webb the process of creating work is an open-ended process and exploration of images and ideas guided by a mix of strategy, reflection, and intuition. With a nod [...]
Joseph Park At Rena Bransten
Joseph Park’s new work represents a personal campaign to identify, develop, and document a genre of painting he calls “Prizmism” that fractures subject and ground in the manner of a prism. His painting process is not unlike an academic discipline in which rigorous study and exercise of his methodology, aided by specifically designed drafting tools, [...]
Mary Robertson At George Krevsky
Mary Robertson returns to the Russian River, and summer cannot be far behind. Taking a page from the Italian master, Giorgio Morandi, the Guerneville-based painter revisits a familiar subject matter. Summer on the River reminds us of vacations past, and tempts us now to test the water, take a deep breath, and submerge our worries. [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1889 in Saint-Rémy
Image at left: Starry Night, Saint-Rémy, June 1889 Starry Night is one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings. This is one of two paintings by him that he called Starry Night. It was painted from memory while he was a resident at Saint-Paul’s in Saint-Rémy. Vincent wrote to Theo on June 18, 1889: Finally, [...]
