May – October, 2023 Studio and Gallery, Salt Point, New York Blue Monk, 2022, oil on canvas, 20″ x 24″

Though This Be Madness–New, Groundbreaking Biography by Steven Poser   By day, Forrest Bess ran a one-man bait camp on the Gulf of Mexico. By night, in his two-room shack, Bess was haunted by terrible visions of ancient bulls, abstract symbols, and desolate, primeval landscapes-which he translated into one of modern art’s most extraordinary bodies of painting,…