Lauren Luloff

Working these days has been a flurry of collaging--whenever I can, whenever the baby is asleep, while students are working contentedly.  I supplement the flurry with images that I love--and post them here so as to collect.  Here are some recent Lauren Luloff paintings that fuel the push for me.  Love these--their informality, their delight in the specificity of fragments, their "world dipped in paint" quality.  If the most important, most delightful moments of the world were dipped in paint and gathered together, this is what we would see.

Allison Miller

Look here.

Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia

These are simply remarkable. 

Joshua Abelow

These are:
funny
deftly made
odd in terms of color choice
materially appealing
cognizant of painting's past,
but not singularly
smart
dumb
succint
dense in their succintness

Found Painting(s)

While packing up a Christmas gift to send off to Florida, I ended up with these two images--love the simple, graphic quality of these matter-of-fact objects/found paintings. 

Sketchbook (of late)

Shape made of movement

Structure amidst/in color

From a "sculpture" I made with Alex today--am thinking of new painting structures.

Basil Beattie and Claude Viallat

These days are tough ones for me in terms of studio work.  I still have not figured how one nurtures an infant AND nurtures a studio.  All in due time I tell myself, as the remnant of baby vomit on my shoulder wafts through my nostrils.  I think this current reality makes finding new (to me that is..) painting so wonderful, so soul-feeding.  Basil Beattie (top) and Claude Viallat (bottom) came to my attention just today.

Jen Omaitz

Delightful painting/collage/assemblage by Jen Omaitz.  Look here for more work.