Is This Truly The End of Western Culture?

Gorky's Granddaughter: Josh Criscione Nusbaum, July 2012

New Work

This painting and some of it's subsequent works involve a young woman I knew who died after a long battle with brain cancer. More new work is available at My Portfolio Site.

Mark Warren "The Girl Who's Head Hurt" 2012 48"X60" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Girl With Holes" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Mark Warren "Girl and Bull" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Mark Warren "Flickering" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Mark Warren "BullGirl" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

The Professional Artist?

I have always winced when hearing about an artist's "practice" as if any meaningful modern artist was ever trained in the same way as a doctor or lawyer. There are thousands of Fine Arts degrees given out to what purpose I don't know. I recently read this interview with artist  Gary Petersen over at New York Arts Magazine:


AC: How do you perceive the significance of your (our) profession as painters?

GP:  Well, I don't like the word profession when it comes to being an artist. Semantics, I know, but I think it is misleading in a way. It conveys the idea that if we do things a certain way and train a certain way we will have a "job.” We will have a "profession.”  Show me the manual about how you have a "career" in the art world.

Appreciate Your Life

Rodney Dickson New Paintings at GASSER & GRUNERT