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Archive: Obituaries & Remembrances

Conrad Vogel, April 17, 1951 – June 19, 2022

Conrad Vogel grew up in Briarcliff Manor, New York, graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1977, traveled in Italy, and then moved to New York City where he lived as an artist for more than forty years.

William Graham Anthony, ironic icon (1934–2022)

William Graham Anthony died on December 24, 2022, of complications suffered after having rushed into a fire in his Westbeth apartment a week earlier.

In Memoriam: Paul Vexler, 1947 – 2022

By the time Paul Vexler chose to pursue his art full time in 2006, he already had decades of experience and a unique command over his favored material. Observing nature and the movement of trees, Paul understood the flexible properties of wood and created sculpture of remarkable elegance and beauty with seemingly impossible arrays of loops and knots.

Remembering artist and early art blogger Carolyn Zick

At 4:18 PM on November 2, 2022, Carolyn Zick, the artist and renowned and pioneering art blogger, passed away at her home in New London, Connecticut.

Remembering DC artist Robert Novel

Throughout the last decade, Robert completed over one hundred and fifty paintings in a limited palette ranging from white to soft gray to black, often incorporating raw canvas or linen as a
compositional element of the work.

Recent posts: Two Coats of Paint

Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide: June, 2023

A selected guide to painting-centric art exhibitions in the Hudson Valley, loosely organized by neighborhood.

Tony Robbin: Art and the cosmos

Contributed by Chunbum Park / Tony Robbin – a scientist and computer programmer as well as an artist – has spent decades pursuing fundamental questions of the cosmos and human existence. His visually enchanting work, currently on view in his solo exhibition “HyperSpace: Line, Color, Form, Pattern” at David Richard Gallery, appears non-representational. But if reality is not merely what is commonly observed at human scale but also what is observable at the quantum and cosmological levels, the distinction between representational, abstract, and nonrepresentational art can get murky.

NYC Selected Gallery Guide: June, 2023

The summer group shows have arrived! A painting-centric guide to art galleries in NYC, Brooklyn, and Queens.

Obituaries & Remembrances