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Jonathan Collins’ Beat Generation Locale Series
9 Lupine Road When I first saw artist Jonathan Collin’s paintings in person, I thought they were photographs. They’re stunning. Incredibly detailed and richly saturated, his Lowell series captures...
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Clip: Paintings in Praise of Poets
Back when I was in undergrad at Scripps, my thesis involved the relationship between poets and painters. Later, at grad school at The New School, I continued to study the way visual and literary...
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Clip: A Time to Laugh
The post “A Time to Weep” seems more appropriate this week, after the Boston Marathon explosions, but yesterday my pre-scheduled post “A Time to Laugh” went up on Burnside. It’s just two works of art...
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Clip: Trading Text for Visuals: Poets As Visual Artists
I had a really fun time putting together an article for Burnside about poets who are also visual artists. From the time I was a little child, I have been drawn to both the literary and visual arts...
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Clip: New Abstraction News
Back in 2008, I had the fun experience of doing PR for Lesny JN Felix‘s art exhibit at Gallery Bar down on the Lower East Side. I got to see his paintings, wrote up his press release, and helped him...
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Clip: One Subject Many Ways: The Sunflower
I’m currently enjoying art critic Martin Gayford‘s The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles. Published in 2009 by Hachette, the well-researched book tells the story of how...
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Jonathan Collins’ Beat-Inspired Paintings on View at the Paterson Museum
Remember a while back when I did an interview with painter Jonathan Collins, who created stunning works of art featuring Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts? Well, starting this weekend, he has...
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Adventuring with Author Larry Closs to See Jonathan Collins’ Beat-inspired...
That’s Larry Closs on the left, Jonathan Collins in the middle, and me on the right. Larry Closs and I took a mini road trip to attend the opening of Jonathan Collins‘ Beat-inspired paintings at the...
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100 Facts on William S. Burroughs for His 100th Birthday
The title say it all, and I’ve got a lot of ground to cover so let’s just get on with it! Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914, which would make him 100 years old today! But he passed away on August...
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Cinat Paints Light — and Dark — to Explore Spirituality
Close up of one of Cinat’s paintings; image via Eventsy The members-only networking club Eventsy invited me to attend a special viewing, co-hosted by CATM New York, of Argentine artist Mariano Cinat’s...
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