Cézanne and the Hubble Telescope, separated by 150 years, share a profound kinship in expanding human vision. Cézanne revealed geometry and rhythm in everyday life, while the Hubble photographs are revealing a universe beyond our natural sight. This “mystery of deep seeing”—the ability to perceive beyond the obvious, to uncover hidden structures, relationships, and possibilities—is…
In 2003 I was interviewing artist and friend Bill Viola for Flash Art Magazine. It was an extensive interview about his exhibition at the Getty, and it began with the question, “have you ever witnessed a miracle?” It turned out to be a great conversation from that point forward. In the middle of the hour…
Interview with Artist Clayton Campbell Clayton Campbell is an artist and cultural producer based in Philadelphia, U.S. His practice includes various visual productions and digital art, arts writing, stage design, curating, arts administrator, and artist residency programming. He began working digitally in 1995 when he received the first Sony digital camera and has been developing…
Mark Steven Greenfield Illuminates the Black Experience In 2020, Mark Steven Greenfield unveiled a new body of work, “Black Madonna,” followed by “HALO” in 2022, both at the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica. Gallery owner William Turner told me in an email that the “Black Madonna” show was a natural progression of Greenfield’s career…
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Artists are experiencing a sense of gratitude for the unexpected support and basic kindness shown to them. In the midst of exile and displacement, often the best of humanity reasserts itself. As Maria says in her fifth blog, “So many of my friends and colleagues who were also forced to leave Russian and Ukraine tell…
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Wild Kingdom photos featured in The Eye of Photography, September 19, 2021
April 7, 2022 The soul of the arts in Russia is withering. In Ukraine it is being obliterated, literally. In this second blog, Maria is speaking to the loss of personal freedoms occurring in Russia that is deeply disturbing and another fall out of the war. In Ukraine, the loss of life and destruction of…