The Artist's Secrets by Philip Martin, reprinted here by special permission of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.
  

"You can either fly or you can live on earth. But you can't do both."
..................Bill McGlaughlin, speaking about his.composition
................"Remembering Icarus"

"Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"

..................Bob Dylan, "Ballad in Plain D"
   "Criswell on the move," by Leslie Newell Peacock, reprinted here by permission of Arkansas Times

cantrell gallery,
Little Rock, AR


Recent Work

taylors' contemporanea
fine arts,
Hot Springs, AR
prints
linocuts
& monotypes

collections
works of
Warren Criswell in selected collections
exhibitions

Criswell Moves
2005 - 2006

essays
on
Warren Criswell
by Peter Frank
& Donald Kuspit

the studio
works in progress

sculpture

videos

Questions? Comments? Send an
Lenny & the Black Riders,
a sketchbook,
July 1983 -- Sept. 2001

 

 

 Quotations from Warren
Recorded for Posterity by Robert Genn
For more profound bullshit by Criswell, some of it illustrated, thanks again to Robert Genn's amazing archives, check out these letters.

 Friends of Warren:

LAM TZE SHEUNG: THE TAO OF SEEING

V.L. COX: THROUGH THE SCREEN DOOR

MATTHEW LOPAS, INSIDE AND OUT

SAMMY PETERS' BIG MESSY PAINTINGS

DAVID BAILIN, THE KAFKA OF CHARCOAL

STEPHEN CEFALO, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, UALR

EVAN LINDQUIST: MASTER ENGRAVER & EXPERT ON OLD PENS & INKS

KELLY MOORE, ART BRUTE

THE MAD, UNSETTLING PASTELS OF DOMINIQUE SIMMONS

BILL GINGLES, MASTER OF PALIMPSEST

THE INFAMOUS ROCKY SAPP, CHAMPION OF DOGMEN

LOU PATROU'S INNER FACES

ROBERT GENN: THE PAINTER'S KEYS

CALEB MURDOCK'S POEM TREE

CASEY CROCKER: ART & PHOTONICS

  
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