Artists

A lot of our YouTube subscribers love our lead sculptor, Kent Kidwell, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to let you get to know him better!   As a child, Kent’s earliest memories of art were drawing, painting and working with clay. “Working ...Read More

We all get “artist’s block” when you feel like you have no ideas and nothing is going right. Susan Rothenberg talks about how to work through that feeling in this great video by Art21. Here’s a link to the shortened version:   https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s3/susan-rothenberg-in-memory-segment/   ...Read More

This is a fabulous read for anyone who is a painter or interested in why painters paint. Original post from Frieze magazine: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/8-painters-on-painting/ 8 Painters on Painting ROUNDTABLE At a time of revolution in digital technologies, when making extraordinary images has never been technically easier, ...Read More

Another video from SFMoMA. Chuck Close talks about his challenges and how he manages his art practice today.   ...Read More

Alexa Meade takes an innovative approach to art. Not for her a life of sketching and stretching canvases. Instead, she selects a topic and then paints it–literally. She covers everything in a scene–people, chairs, food, you name it–in a mask of paint that mimics ...Read More

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Artists tell stories in their work, reveal narrative traditions, and record and describe the world around us. Featuring artists Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, with an introduction by Charles Atlas and John Waters. http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/episode-stories ...Read More