Richard Weinstein has spent a lifetime looking closely at people. Here, he considers what the great masters taught him, and what, still, he hopes to learn.
Interviews
Expanding the Field: Ronnie Landfield in Dialogue on Lyrical Abstraction
Feb 13, 2026, 12:34 PM
A studio conversation between Ronnie Landfield and Wei Wei tracing the rise of Lyrical Abstraction in 1960s New York, where color, landscape, and painterly risk converge into a lived philosophy of painting.
“Preserving my energy for a singular purpose allows me to fully execute an original idea.”
“I remember as a very young child often having deeply existential moments of dissociation from myself. Observing my surroundings but not being of them, wondering if this reality with which I’d been presented was only a dream.”
Peter Reginato reflects on his fusion of Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Color Field painting and his philosophy of constant artistic reinvention in a new interview.
At age two, I saw my father’s surgical atlases on the floor. They made a deep impression on me visually.
I think art can tell more about the artist than they want to share.
I often think that freedom is the final and most elusive ingredient in making art. When you shake off the outer voices as well as the self-imposed rules, and listen only to the work you’re making.
Every project is guided by different questions, but generally they are connected with understanding and visualizing how power and oppression operate in our society.
It’s OK not to always be visible. Your work also doesn’t need to be easily understood. Also, don’t take rejection too deeply. And the reverse–don’t take being chosen too deeply either.