Despite having honed an intelligent yet boisterous painting process for the last 40-plus years, Los Angeles-based art guru Thomas Lawson is just as likely to be known as a) the dean of the prestigious School of Art at the California Institute for the Arts and (b) the talented but polemical art writer who penned the potent 1985 comeuppance of Neo-Expressionism titled “Last Exit: Painting.”

As is such, he’s one of the few personalities in the art world who’s both a rule-maker and a rule-breaker. Read More