Search

An interview with Juan Uslé, a painter, is presented. Some of the issues he addressed include his first show in New York at John Good Gallery in 1988, the reason why he came to New York, living in Spain before moving to New York, educational background, how he decided to be an artist and subjects of his paintings.

Presents an interview with painter Shirley Jaffe. Significance of Jaffe as a figure on the art scene of Paris, France; Shift in Jaffe's work from Abstract Expressionism toward a more geometric vocabulary; Belief that the death of gestural Abstract Expressionist paintings was due to people's failure to do it out of a committed visual idea; Opinion of French artists as having an instinctive sense of color and a tendency to verbalize about their work; Recent interest among French curators, French museum directors, and French critics in what French artists are doing.