Donald Baechler

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Donald Baechler: I think a good artist in general is someone who doubts what he’s doing and looks for ways of doing it better and looks for ways of making it more interesting. For me, if I know what the painting’s going to look like, there’s not really any reason to paint it. If I’m not learning something there’s no reason to do it. Or discovering something. And, looking back, often paintings that seem to me radically different start looking very similar…

Panorama (Three Thistles). In this work, he boldly and simply painted an ordinary flower springing forth from a patchwork of fabric scraps that includes a restaurant napkin and embroidered scarves.

New York Painters is dedicated to a generation of New York artists in the 1980s, which in their work found wholly individual forms of expression within the classical medium of painting…

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