Sunday, March 9, 2014

Top Fourteen with Randy Wray



































































Willem de Kooning:  The paint looks as if it is still moving.


Robert Rauschenberg:  He broke boundaries and transformed junk into material poetry.


Philip Guston:  Painterly paintings painted with paint.


Picasso:  The good, the bad and the ugly!


Jasper Johns:  Specificity. Every action has consequences.


Gustave Courbet:  He painted the truth. Beautifully.


Judith Scott:  Her wrapped and layered clumps of string exude such power.


James Ensor:  Freaky and emotive.


Cy Twombly:  I’m transported by his chicken scratch and scribble pictures.


Sterling Ruby:  His ceramics look like bizarre ritual artifacts.


Tal R:  Lots of approaches, but one unique sensibility. Misbehaves in the best ways.


Monsters:  Movie monsters were scary as a child. They now seem like old friends. 


Rocks and minerals:  I collected them as a teenager. Mother Nature’s eccentric abstraction. 


Dogs:  They’re my friends and the inspiration for my recent work.




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