List of Contents

PAINT

Issue No.
103

PAINT

Aug, 2007

Cover:

Lisa Yuskavage, Forces, 2006, oil on linen, 11 7/8 x 8 7/8". Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.

Bordernotes

Time Balm

Meeka Walsh

Time Balm by Meeka Walsh Typically I find myself inhaling the dust kicked up by Alice’s white rabbit—late, always late and always out of time. Frantic. And then a fragment of a line from Yeats: “for peace...

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Borderviews

Pleasurable Unease: Mélanie Rocan
Grinning and Baring It: Zachari Logan
Chef d’Excess: Chris Flodberg
The Theatre of Painting: Dil Hildebrand

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Tales of Two Cities: My Winnipeg, directed by Guy Maddin

Robert Enright

Interviews

The Overwhelmer: An Interview with Lisa Yuskavage

The Overwhelmer: An Interview with Lisa Yuskavage

Robert Enright

In a conversation Lisa Yuskavage had with Chuck Close in 1996, she came up with a characteristically colourful way of describing her tendency to put her talent to such poor use: “like a nun with...

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A Dark But Vital Light: An Interview with Sean Scully

Robert Enright

Sean Scully is unique among contemporary painters in his ability to capture the visceral sublime. That quality has been realized most successfully in his ongoing series called “Wall of Light,” paintings and watercolours in which...

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The Art of Downside Narrative: An Interview with Tony Scherman

The Art of Downside Narrative: An Interview with Tony Scherman

Robert Enright

Among  the 17 large encaustic paintings from “About 1865,” Tony Scherman’s grave and beautiful meditation on the American Civil War, is a canvas called God’s Work. It shows a pair of legs and feet, cut...

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Uneasy Painting: The Ambiguous Art of Shary Boyle

Uneasy Painting: The Ambiguous Art of Shary Boyle

Interview by Robert Enright; Introduction by Meeka Walsh

In practice and material, Shary Boyle is a polymath. Her media: painting, sculpture and drawing, the choice at a particular moment governed by her being compelled by the material itself. When she paints, she says it’s...

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Articles

Architectural Principles in the Art of Sean Scully

Arthur Danto

Chris Dorland: Surface Tensions

Susan Emerling

A Tale of Two Painters - The Art of Brad Phillips and Michael Lewis

Lee Henderson

What’s A Girl To Do?

Christabel Wiebe

Art Pages

Dil Hildebrand

Poetry

Second Life

Ken Babstock

Which Helmet

Ken Babstock

West Range

Ken Babstock

Crossovers

Gina Rorai

James D. Campbell

John Hartman

Meredith Dault

David Spriggs

Randall Anderson

Lisa Stinner

Richard Holden

Huang Yong Ping

Robin Laurence

“Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz”

Rosemary Heather

Kota Ezawa

Christopher Olson

Melanie Authier

Cliff Eyland

Gego

Megan Ratner

China Sensation: New Art from Chengdu

Mary Christa O’Keefe

Transition/Transaction

Noam Gonick

John Kissick

Gary Michael Dault

Gerald Ferguson

Jeffrey Spalding

Gordon Matta-Clark

MJ Thompson

Projections

Terence Dick

Andrew Wright

Mark A. Cheetham

Joyous Inquiry: A Memoir and an Appreciation of Sol LeWitt

Randall Anderson

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