Critics

Gary Taxali I identify with Gary’s work. The connection with 1930s comic-strip art informs a lot of his work and mine. His characters (evoking the same era) are both innocent and menacing. I share some of Gary’s obsessions, they make me nostalgic. But maybe because he is not old enough, his interest is not in…

Artists have been making marks on surfaces for centuries, as any art history major knows the first evidence of such mark making is found near Vallon-Pont-d’Arc at the Grotte Chauvet in southern France. Dating back 32,000 years these cave walls display hundreds of animal paintings depicting at least 13 different species, including those rarely found…