Ridley Howard

My work has often been, on some level, about space. Even in the earliest and most illusionistic, I was thinking…

Karla Wozniak

I’m deeply inspired by the boots-on-the-ground views of the American landscape of photographers like William Eggleston, Garry Winogrand, and Robert…

Besides painting, I maintain Two Coats of Paint, a blog about painting and related issues. The analytic discipline writing requires…

Last year, I was out buying paint and saw this postcard near the checkout making super aggressive eye-contact and a…

I’ve been working on the black/white/grey “Landscaping Before Dying” series since 1997. In 2010 I found some old color pencils…

Working on paper is a way for me to quickly find new images and ideas. It’s also a great way…

Recently I made sculptures for a collaboration I did with dancer, choreographer Susan Dibble. It was exciting and strange to…

Sometimes I really love the initial image I get from the first stage of making a painting. It’s not what…

Last year I went to India for the first time. The colors, the spiritual warmth and loving social environment overwhelmed…

It started with one brown stone. I kept seeing it everyday on the way to my studio. Seduced by its…

This series of paintings are coming, very much directly, from my little weaving project of making potholders. (I’m making a…

I try to make paintings that have extreme visual clarity, lightness of being with depth, severity, variation, and complexity, while remaining…