Silke Tudor

Former illustrator turned full-time painter Gregory Hergert’s work has been described as “urban Surrealism”. He paints non-traditional themes in a traditional manner, yet allows the medium to shine through the often brutal settings depicted in his work. Hergert’s latest solo at Brass Works Gallery in Portland, Oregon displays the artist’s talents in both painting and sculpture and, in a few of his latest works, the co-mingling of both formats in fresh ways.

There are many occasions when language fails me, when a poet’s hand seems what is needed to get to the truth of a thing—a man’s life, a work of art, a life of art. This is such a moment. To call the oil paintings of Eyvind Earle “landscapes” is accurate but very sorely wanting. For more than seventy years, Earle turned his unique refracting eye on what he called the “stupendous infinity of nature,” interpreting what he saw through a long lens shaped by a very particular kind of mythopoeia.

Robert Williams: Fearless Depictions, a survey exhibition, is now on view at the Long Beach Museum of Art. To celebrate, we are,  for the first time, making our article written by Silke Tudor on the artist available online (& with no pop-ups). Enjoy!- HF Pardoning the Hawaiian archipelago, California is as far west as you can travel before hitting Asia.