Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr., on March 7, 1872, at Amersfoort, the Netherlands. Until 1908, when he started to take yearly trips to Domburg at Zeeland, Mondrian's work was pragmatic --integrating sequential on impacts of instructional landscape and still-life painting, Dutch Impressionism, and Symbolism. In 1909 a significant exhibition of his job (with this of Jan Sluijters and Cornelis Spoor) was held in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and that same year he joined the Theosophic Society. In 1909 and 1910 he experimented with Pointillism and by 1911 had started to function in a Cubist manner. After viewing first Cubist works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the first Moderne Kunstkring exhibition in 1911 at Amsterdam,Mondrian chose to proceed to Paris. There, from 1912 to 1914, he started to develop a different abstract fashion.

I cannot live without painting and drawing, with bamboo, pencil, brushes, light (maglite), whatever. It is my oxygen, my response to the world. When I paint I am alive. Regardless of the questions or problems in the outer world, when I paint, everything takes its rightful place. It is a state of grace for me. I should add that when I draw I write, and when I write I draw.

I cannot live without the feeling that the world comes into you, you breathe with the world – there is no separation between the world and you. That is exactly what I feel and experience when I paint and draw. I also love the feeling of being expanded throught the world – Russia, France, and the US are my axes. I need to feel myself expanded – as mist, as a myriad of water spots, in many places, in many countries at the same time.

Michael Goldberg (1924–2007) was BOMB’s most knowledgeable and discerning editor, one of America’s greatest painters, and one of our very dearest friends. A connoisseur of life, a walking encyclopedia of jazz and wine; a raconteur replete with the best stories of New York’s 1950s and onwards art world, and a sense of humor punctuated with a “Who gives a fuck about that incidental detail …”https://bombmagazine.org/articles/michael-goldberg/

Born in 1980 in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, México. ... the FONCA (Mexico). And has been a teacher of painting and drawing at the Institute of Fine Arts in México City, México. He has exhibited in México, Germany and the United States since 2001.

Contemporary, Mexican, female artist.

As Jill Moser recounts it, one of her early exposures to contemporary art as a young adult was trekking into New York from the near suburbs to watch films at Anthology Film Archives. “Michael Snow, Brakhage, Maya Derren . . . Jonas Mekas was my hero.” It is, of course, a list of names that we now acknowledge as the cannon of American independent filmmaking. It is a list that outlines the formulation of a cinematic practice of lyrical form, an elision of narrative and the explosive presence of abstraction. To have watched these films is to have been immersed in the mid to late twentieth century poetics of cinema.

Alex Nuñez is a Cuban-American mixed media painter from Miami, FL. She received her Bachelors of Arts & Sciences from Loyola University New Orleans in 2006. She completed international workshops at Firenze Arti Visive, Florence and Metafora, Barcelona. In 2009, she received her Post Baccalaureate Diploma from SMFA, Boston. She received her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York in 2012; upon completion, she was awarded the C12 Emerging Artist Fellowship. Nuñez is the host and producer of the “Sunday Painter” podcast on Jolt Radio, now in the show’s fourth year of production and a recipient of Locust Project’s 2018 Wavemaker Grant. In 2019 she completed a year residency at the Deering Estate.

I always liked to draw. My school papers had more drawings, sketches and scribbles than correct answers. I started writing poems/songs around 13/14ish. I tried writing novels and comics with my brother Ryan in junior high. Beginning of 10th grade I began taking a 3 hour Drafting & Design extra-curriculum class 5 days a week until I graduated high school, realizing although I love, appreciate and have a passion for architecture - it’s not a career for me. The summer of 2001 is really where it all culminated - a friend showed me his graffiti, how to make stencils, etc. I made my first stencil and used a can a spray paint on a few utility boxes, and haven’t put it down since.