A recent post over at JG's blog reminded me of a painter whose work I first saw at San Francisco's excellent WhiteWalls gallery with MM and EM a few months ago. Kim Cogan's paintings of San Francisco render the city as simultaneously urban, gritty, glowing, and ethereal - which manages to capture the spirit of the city pretty well. While his large canvas cityscapes are my favorites, capturing broad expanses of the city bathed in wonderful light, his street-level details are also excellent, capturing familiar street corners and underpasses with the same qualities of broad-brush stroke warmth and wetness as his more expansive landscapes. The paintings displayed on his website are well worth a look: www.kimcogan.com.
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