Tag: Jim Magner

You think it is just a house. An ordinary house with trees. Bushes. Clouds. But wait. There is an undeniable vibration. A quivering. For...

Ideas float. They expand. And contract. They take on the appearances of reality and then float away as you try to capture and clearly...

Sailors on shore leave in NYC are “grabbing a moment.” It was a moment grabbed by many sailors and soldiers in World War II,...

The rhythms of color/are born/ in his haiku. They arise in his/staccato shapes/and clipped colors. They expand into/a landscape/of flowing form. Steve Moen listens to the sound...

You can feel the color. Hear it. Touch it. Dance with it. Outlines and contours appear and distinguish themselves without separating, remaining a presence...

Discovery. It’s all about discovery. Searching. Experimenting. Watching. James Earl explores “novel ways to make marks on paper and organize them into coherent images.”...

It’s about food, but it’s not about food. It is really about intensity: The color. The commanding compositions. The demanding scrutiny of the ordinary....

His titles are numbers, not names. The paintings are the artist’s personal thoughts, visually presented—no definitions or declarations. They’re simply a launch pad for...

Sometimes it’s the world you don’t really see when you’re scurrying along. The painting can be a sketchy suggestion of an actual place—like “Iceland...

It fills the spaces among the branches and reflects off the surfaces—giving color to form and revealing the nature of the life within—from clouds...