Why portraiture is different

Portraiture is unlike any other genre, and its special qualities come with responsibilities as well as surprising consequences.

Heading south after the North View

Subjective closes tomorrow after a month at the North View, but the show is far from over…

Getting it right

Sometimes, I start a painting one way and it finishes very differently.  But that’s in the nature of things where painting is concerned.  It’s part of the eternal quest for an undefinable “done-ness.”

 

The opposite of “a painting a day”

My work takes time.  Far from a painting a day, I like to develop my paintings over the course of a year, ensuring that there’s at least as much time as there is paint in the layers that I put down on canvas.

The gentle art of making portraits

James McNeill Whistler wasn’t the only artist to struggle with portraiture as a genre, but his Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother proves that he’s one of the artists who won the struggle. 

Portrait of the artist’s father

For Subjective, my portrait of my father is the portrait of a winning moment.

Blind collaboration

Becca and I made up this term to describe our strange sort of collaboration.  Though we teamed up to conceive Subjective and later to work on the logistics of mounting and touring the show, we were, for the most part, artistically independent of each other in our partnership.

Relating and portraiture

One of the most interesting aspects of working on Subjective has been learning about how my relationships with my subjects affect the finished portraits.  I always knew that they did, but it wasn’t until I sat down and performed this experiment on myself that I understood the full extent. 

What the Arlésienne is missing

Long before Becca and I created Subjective, artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were making paintings from the same subject.

The Dregs at the Art Gym

Brandy Cochrane and Paul Middendorf’s Dregs, on view at the Marylhurst Art Gym right now, raises important questions about consent and responsibility in portraiture. 

Art-Beat-ilicious!

Last night, my work was featured on OPB’s Oregon Art Beat.

Subjectively Portland

Yesterday, Becca and I celebrated Subjective with an artist talk and a reception!

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