Art Disarms

Art Disarms Look at this guard looking at art. Working at a museum, one knows that one is in service of the visitor. The care you deliver inspires and facilitates the visitors’ experience. For the visitor to be served best, everyone who enters the museum should feel...

Ode to On Kawara and the Midterm Elections

By way of experimentation I applied way too much gesso to this canvas with the idea to let it dry facing down. Predictably, it yielded a surface that isn’t smooth, the antithesis of the typical painter’s preferred starting point. Once dried, and me seeing the...

Helen, Brittany, and Woman #1

When I visited the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., last June, I took some snapshots of a guard in the exhibit “The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions.” I told her about my project “Subject: Guard,” painting museum guards. “Why don’t...