About

Gering & Lopez is an independent publication about looking at art and how it is made.

Most writing about painting is about pictures: who made them, when, what they mean, what they cost. This one is about the object doing the depicting — the bars, the cloth, the ground, the paint, the varnish, the light falling on all of it, and the moulding around the edge. Those seven things are the site’s sections, and they are arranged in the order a painting is actually built. Reading the navigation from left to right walks you through the structure of the thing on the wall.

How to use it

Every piece states which layer it belongs to and what sits directly behind and in front of it, so a subject can be followed through the stack rather than through a list of tags. If you are new here, More Than Eight Seconds teaches the only skill the rest of the site assumes. If a picture at home is troubling you, This Is Where You Stop is short, and honest about where amateur work ends.

What we do not do

No valuations, no market commentary, no attributions, and no instructions for work that belongs to a trained conservator. Where a subject becomes a specialist’s job, we say so plainly and stop.

An independent publication about looking at art and how it is made. Not affiliated with, or representing, any gallery, dealer, artist or institution.