There are artists we hate to love and artists we love to hate. Most artists don’t make a dent; nonentities rarely do. Then there are artists in need of a spanking: painters and sculptors of talent, skill and vision incapable of resisting their worst impulses. Chief on the list for corporal punishment is Andrew Masullo, Read More
To describe the painter Irving Petlin as uncategorizable is to soft-pedal his essential strangeness. An American who divides his time between Paris and New York, the 68-year-old Mr. Petlin is a loner, an odd duck and a tough nut to crack. His peculiar brand of figuration avoids even the most encompassing of generalizations. It traverses Read More
The same thing that draws us to the still-life paintings of Richard Baker makes us worry about their staying power: facility. Mr. Baker, whose canvases are on display at the Joan T. Washburn Gallery, handles oil paint in a way that will tug at anyone who loves the properties peculiar to the medium-its flexibility and Read More
