Cover of  catalog for Jennifer Bartlettt's 2008 exhibition at Richard Gray Gallery  taken from the gallery website.

 

To my surprise and pleasure, I was able to pull this off the internet.  I love the cross hatch style marks she made to develop this simple image of intense blues.  I'm a sucker for blue..

Cover of  a catalog of a 1993 exhibition by Jennifer Bartlett at the Richard Gray Gallery

Pretty soon I should be able to figure out how to differentiate between creating  a caption and composing a blog entry.  

What interests me here is that the prompt for creating the image remained the same--maybe a photograph--but the marks for creating each image are quite different. 

I also like Jennifer Bartlett

Jennifer Bartlett

The top image is from art.1stdibs.com;  The lower image titled "Recitative" is an image of a show at The Pace Gallery from www.Facebook.com/public/Jennifer-Bartlett.


The top image is from a series titled "Amagansett, Best Garden Pastels.  So what do I like, what interests me about these works?   I like the graph work,  I like the  cross hatching, the presence of the marks she used to create the image. It looks as if she applied color with the tines of a bent fork.  The upper image refers to plant life without actually looking like a plant. 

I loved some works at www.Richardgraygallery.com, but I was unable to transfer them to this blog, either because I am not competent or because the gallery blocked the possibility of doing so.  I love her use of color and the pared-down, simplicity of design that I saw in most of those images which were primarily very large diptychs.

Another Paul Hawden Etching

                                              Isola San Giovanni by  Paul Hawden taken from his website
                                                       www.PaulHawden.co.uk

Here's another etching by Paul Hawden that I admire.  I like the scribbles indicating water and the rich blackness of the trees among which I can still distinguish trunks and branches.

Artists I Admire

Impression of Siena

Chartres

Both images are by Naoko Matsubara and were taken from her website www.naokomatsubara.com.


I've admired Matsubara's woodcuts for  some time.  I like the boldness of the black and white and the freedom  of her imagination in assembling these images which are impressions, not renderings of buildings.

The images below are all of etchings by Paul Hawden and were taken from his website www.paulhawden.co.uk.  The architectural images are all of the same building: Il duomo,  Orvieto.  The other image is "Storm approaching Lake Maggiore"

I love his scribbles.  I love the sense of something maybe out of control, but not quite.  He had to have a sound sense of the structures of this building before he could take off in flight.  Could I do this?  Not now.  Would I like to?  Yes.

Paul Hawden from wwwpaulhawden.co.uk.