Barbara A. MacAdam

Richard Diebenkorn, Studio Floor – Camelia, 1962, oil on canvas, 26 3/8 x 21 3/4 in. (67 x 55.2 cm).
Diebenkorn Shone in the Phillips Collection’s "Seeing Differently”
While Diebenkorn is best known for his signature Ocean Park paintings—watery pale blue skies at play with horizontal geometric patterning that suggest landscapes in the sky—he is also noted for his…
Larry Poons, Lee's Retreat, 1963.
Late Career Artists: Changing Course—or Not
There is much to ponder about creative shifts in late-career artmaking. It’s a subject that has always fascinated scholars and audiences in all the arts because we usually expect painters, like…
Rosy Keyser, Detail of Window Swap, 2020. Aluminum, enamel, sawdust, horsehair, and paper on canvas.
Rosy Keyser on Sound, Collaboration, and “Arp 273”

At 46, Baltimore-born painter Rosy Keyser has brightened her palette and expanded her purview northward, probing the cosmos with images of abstract celestial bodies rendered in their magnetic…