Articles in paint
Kim Frohsin is full of kinetic energy. She can’t help herself. Sitting for a two hour interview is about all she can take before she launches into a session of “Kim-fu” – her own …
He believes a painting is always incomplete, and its incompleteness fascinates him, driving him to “reflect on the perfection and imperfection of the world and of the human soul.”
Mary Lovelace O’Neal’s life reads like a screenplay: a young African-American artist immersed in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in love with one of its charismatic leaders and committed to changing the world. …
They have not been seen in public without each other for 30 years and their art makes people squirm.
Siddharth Parasnis seems to thrive in the confusion of a big city. His studio — one tiny part of a large warehouse — sits right under Interstate 80 and the Bay Bridge, the main artery …
The class was called “Steinbeck Country” – a high school English class that had a profound impact on artist Warren Chang. As a kid, growing up on California’s Central Coast, Warren Chang connected emotionally …
Pam Carroll must have been one heck of a room mother. All that creative energy focused on school art projects and classroom parties. The kids probably loved it even if they didn’t fully appreciate the …
Ken Auster is a born and bred Southern Californian who is most comfortable with a brush in his hand or a board beneath his feet. Painting is his passion; the surf is his sanctuary. He’s …
Russell Chatham has constructed a surprisingly elegant life in south central Montana. On the welcome sign, Livingston is heralded as the “original” gateway to Yellowstone. Apparently Gardiner, a tourist town now thriving just outside the …
“I’m scared to death” – curious words coming from an artist who has been a mainstay on the Monterey Peninsula art scene for decades, but Johnny Apodaca is a man in transition. He’s cutting back …
He was a sixteen year old junkie. Nothing mattered except the drug and a powerful unrelenting need for more. Barry Masteller was a child of divorce. His mother worked hard to take care of him …
They were poor, but they had each other. No TV, no fancy toys and none of the modern things most kids take for granted. Fidencio Duran lived with his eight brothers and a sister on …
