Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

Models as Friends

Models as Friends

Over my 22 years as an artist I have taken a lot of pictures of  young women, some to serve as guides for paintings,  some to use simply as photographs. I met the two above, the redhead Laura and Hannah with blond dreadlocks while I was having lunch with two Berkshire...

In Fields of Gold

In Fields of Gold

The Field Farm overlooks Mount Greylock and the Hopper. We drove to the Field Farm in Williamstown recently to walk the trails alongside its splendid fields of mown hay. The sun was shining (oh happy day). And we were feeling in harmony with all this open land and the...

MASS MoCA Stages Monumental Show

MASS MoCA Stages Monumental Show

 You'd think that Ledelle Moe's monumental memorial to the murdered and the slain would be a real downer. But it isn't.  As you descend the steps onto the exhibition floor in MASS MoCA's biggest gallery, you're confronted by three giant concrete heads lying on the...

The Art of Eroding Memories

The Art of Eroding Memories

Here's the portrait I didn't see in my first visit to Installation Space in North Adams. Photo by Grier Horner. For a week I've been trying to come up with the best one-word description of Robert Maloney's installation at the Installation Space in North Adams. ...

Bold, Beautiful – and Happy

Bold, Beautiful – and Happy

Jesse Tobin McCauley in her studio in the Lichtenstein Center in Pittsfield. Photo by Noel Henebury For Jesse Tobin McCauley her current show at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in Pittsfield is a sentimental journey. Just six years ago she had showed with Group W...

Portraits of Flowers

Portraits of Flowers

This post came to me when I was carrying the garbage can in from the street this morning. Cutting through Babbie's biggest garden, I saw how the early  sun was catching a cluster of purple flower flowers. (I'm sorry but I'm as bad at remembering flowers' names as...