My first question is: Why Botero? How did this mild, sometimes trivial artist become the chronicler of darkness? At age 73 Fernando Botero broke out of his benign reputation with a series of 100 works—50 paintings and as many works…
Raúl Gonzalez has caught fire. Now 37 years old and a practicing artist since he was a teenager, over the past few years he has become visible to an increasing number of people through a series of ambitious, well-received exhibitions…
Ben Sloat One theme that has always struck me about your work (and seen most recently My Mother Told Me at the Tufts University Art Gallery) is that of impermanence: the impermanence of history, the impermanence of one’s experience, but…
Part 1 – Problem1 I have a problem as an artist. My problem is that I cannot afford to pay much more than $2 per square foot for a studio in New York. Really, I can’t afford it at all…