Journal
inspiration, Perspective, and process 

There is a loneliness at the heart of the abstract painter’s calling. As Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), the erudite patriarch of Abstract Expressionism, described it, the painter stands before his canvas seeking a unity between art and the darkening cosmos around him – our ever-expanding universe whose existential meanings have been shipwrecked, cut adrift from all but the most abstract scientific equations, bereft of any kind of vital emotion or spiritual urge.

This year’s major painting was sold during an early preview of the 2024 National Watercolor exhibition which recently opened at Mark Arts...

Hardedge painting, concrete art, and formalism are terms with merit, but a summary of two other art movements will...

Songwriters such as Paul Simon and Paul McCartney have claimed that on rare occasions the melody and lyrics of iconic songs in their...

What I call “pure painting” is a concept that has prevailed in American aesthetics since at least the 1940s. Most prominent among its...

Father’s Day is this weekend in the United States. Whether you refer to your patriarch as father, dad or pop, please take a moment to...

The link between poetry and painting is well established, wrapped in the term “ekphrasis,” what I call the poem’s attempt to recreate...

In Circle Suite No. Four, the lowly paper grocery bag has been degraded and rendered useless for carrying groceries. Reassembled, the paper

Might the poet, songwriter or artist prod confession and nurture beauty when and where beauty can be found?