Paintings by Peter Locascio

 When I first began my journey as an artist, I encountered a thought by Arthur Danto, the long-time art critic at The Nation. He claimed that everything in painting had already been done, leaving little room for anything genuinely new. Art, he argued, merely shifted from one trend to another—abstract expressionism, pop art, neo-expressionism, postmodernism—but each movement, in his view, was only a reworking of what had come before. Danto’s words led me to question my path. If everything had al...