Eli Ives

Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan

Eli Ives

James Gahagan, Patricia de Gogorza

Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until Dawn is a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan (1927-1999), who painted all night to push the limits of vision. His life and thought reveal a correlation between art and activism through an interesting angle: the creative process itself.