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Katherine Bradford with Chris Martin and Peter Acheson

While preparing for her solo exhibition of new paintings at Edward Thorp Gallery, which will be on view until June 2nd, Katherine Bradford took time to welcome painters Peter Acheson and Chris Martin to her Williamsburg studio to talk about her life and work.

“Desire For Transport”, Oil on canvas, 54” x 72”, 2006. Courtesy of Edward Thop Gallery.

A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art

By Peter Acheson

Bill Jensen said that Ryder’s paintings are made of stardust, and I take his point. By all accounts, his palette was limited and he experimented with glazes and homemade varnishes. So how does the homespun become “stardust”?

Albert Pinkham Ryder, <em>Pegasus Departing</em>, by 1901. Oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, 14 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly.

Mind Mandala: The Art of James Harrison

By Peter Acheson

James Harrison’s first body of New York work resembles the collage and scribble drawing style of Rauschenberg and Twombly.

James Harrison, “The Future is in the Past,” 1948/1953. Courtesy Luise Ross Gallery, New York.

Food For Sharks: A Personnel Tribute to Stan Brakhage

By Peter Acheson

Tribute, in the meaning of what the farmers pay to the king, is an apt image for what we younger artists owe to the memory of Stan Brakhage.

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