Art in America, International review.
NEW YORK A veteran painter with an impressive arsenal of studio skills and multilayered cultural references, James McGarrell persists in...
McGarrell in Vermont
MCGARRELL IN VERMONT In 1963, when John Coltrane recorded “I Want to Talk about You” on the album Live at Birdland, it was common...
Blue and White
BLUE AND WHITE In the order of our daily perceptions, black-and-white is simply the other reality – the one that’s not in color. Its...
The World is a painted wall
To paint on a wall. ---It is the vandal's nighttime misdemeanor. It remains the high noon of all human pursuit. Naturally our parents...
Young and Old
YOUNG AND OLD James McGarrell’s first solo exhibition took place in 1955, at the Frank Perls Gallery in Los Angeles (the same year that...