Mr. Peanut died in January 2021. At the time, I was shocked and saddened. Besides that, I was devastated. When I was eight years...
READ MORENicholas Wilder On Being A Dealer
ARTWEEK, August 24, 1974 •by Martha Alf • Referring to himself as an “art peddler,” dynamic, Los Angeles-based art...
READ MOREThe New Museum of Modern Art… An Artist’s View
by Ronnie Landfield • 2005 • The Cause – The Museum of Modern Art has reopened for business on 53rd Street between Fifth...
READ MORE“The Essence Of Abstraction” by Ronnie Landfield
This essay was originally printed in the catalog that accompanied the forty year retrospective, “Ronald Davis:...
READ MORE“3D/CG” at Eight Modern, Santa Fe, 2007
Richard Tobin, THE Magazine, April 01, 2008 • 3D/CG, a solo exhibition at Eight Modern Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM • Nov 16 – Dec 31,...
READ MOREEarly Studio Days
Featured photo: Gail Chadell Nanao. Photo of Roller Rink upstairs: Unknown. In the early 1960s, I lived communally with a...
READ MOREWallpaper Statement Part 1
I woke up one morning in 2002 with a ripe stream-of-consciousness Artist Statement burning in my brain, and it wanted to come...
READ MOREWallpaper Statement Part 2
Continued from Part 1: The first painting I painted, a couple of years before I had thoughts of becoming a real painter, was a...
READ MOREWallpaper Statement Part 3
Continued from Part 2: In painting, I had discovered a “profession” that suited my dependencies. That is to say, if...
READ MOREWallpaper Statement Part 4
Continued from Part 3: I drove east in 1962, having been invited to the Norfolk Yale School of Music and Art as a grantee. The...
READ MOREWallpaper Statement Part 5
Continued from Part 4: It was never my intention to deconstruct art as I found it. I strove to expand the boundaries of...
READ MOREGulley Jimson, John Bratby, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Charlie Chan, & Wyoming Slab
If you want to be an artist and you’re in midnight quarantine, you are required to become acquainted with “Gulley...
READ MORE“Spoke” in the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Tuesday March 31, 2020 – Left of Center: Student Curators Reflect On Their Experience...
READ MORERonald Davis: Objects and Illusions
By Barbara Rose, 1988 – Between January, 1968 and October, 1969, Ronald Davis produced a remarkable series of twenty-nine...
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