Favorite Summer Art Wrap-Up, Part 6

One of my favorite exhibits this summer was the Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes: Five Decades of Painting... at the UBS Gallery.

A simple well organized theme that documents each decade of the artist's work along with his information of his mentors, colleagues and influences in each... (The likes of Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and Jackson Pollock).

Journals are also on display with pencil and/or ink denotations of his inner thoughts at each stage of his career...

Here are a couple of my favorite quotes from the source material:

"The artist must seek to reenter society as an influencing force, without relinquishing any of his necessary freedoms."
-- Jack Tworkov, 1900-1982

Art and life! Art and life! Art and life! All the commercial questions center around that question - what relation has art to now - to life!

"I think the time has now arrived for me to do the best work of my life. I feel like a confident boxer."
-- Journal Entry May 30 1960.