Update from James Kalm

YouTube: Jerry Saltz Seeing Out Louder, David Hockney New Paintings. Very Current! New book by Jerry, and Hockney's new paintings.

Raoul De Keyser

Enjoying a long-standing reputation as being a ‘painter’s painter,’ De Keyser has been a leading influence on the next generation of painters, including Luc Tuymans, Rebecca Morris, and Tomma Abts. Modest in size, De Keyser’s spare works have a special intimacy that derives from the physical characteristics of the medium itself, as well as the tension created between plane and depth, figure and ground. As noted by Hamza Walker of The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, where De Keyser had his United States museum debut in 2000:
De Keyser’s pictorial logic is one in which conclusions regarding composition, color or manner of brush handling are confidently proposed but never asserted to a degree suggesting the evolutionary terminus of an art form . . . Although De Keyser has managed to merge various contradictory elements - figuration and abstraction, gesture and geometry, the garish and the restrained - his work in no way exhibits tendencies of a postmodern eclecticism that would reduce the history of painting to a mere collection of styles. If anything, De Keyser’s work, in modest proportions, has the spirit
of painting when abstraction was celebrated for opening new possibilities within the realm of pictorial expression.

2009 Chelsea Opener

Check out on YouTube "2009 Chelsea Opener", presented to us by James Kalm.
Thank you James!

View some of Raoul DeKeyser works.

Erik Parker

Another New York artist that likes pink.
Check out on YouTube: Erik Parker Crisis Creation at Paul Kasmin

Peter Doig

New paintings
at Gavin Brown Enterprise / Jan. 2009

It seems to me that Doig likes pink. Avery used pink,too. Interesting.
Using the color pink is not easy. Check it out on you tube. "Peter Doig new paintings at Gavin Brown Enterprise".

Milton Avery Quote

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

Lee Krasner Quotes

+ I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

+ I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

+ I like to surprise myself. I have to be interested in what I’m doing. Surprise, for me, is as important as it is to anyone that views it once it becomes a painting.