Experiens Sillemans

While visiting New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) this past Saturday, I stumbled on a piece of anachronism in the form of two early 17th-Century Dutch pen paintings (penschilderingen) authored by the Dutch draughtsman and engraver, Experiens Sillemans. The

Power Flight

Joe Overstreet’s Power Flight can be seen at the Brooklyn Museum.  The work, made in 1971, consists of multiple canvas panel– six of them– stained with acrylic.  The panels alternate red and black, except at the machine-sewn seams, which have

A Double Story

“I will tell a double story. For at one time they grew to be only one out of many, but at another they grew apart to be many out of one: fire and water and earth and the immense height