“Many who studied with seminal artist Hans Hofmann have struggled to convey the richness and power of what Hofmann communicated to them . . . The finest of Hofmann’s “translators” was James Gahagan... Using extensive footage from Gahagan’s final lecture ... Tina Dickey has fashioned an astute film about Gahagan’s life and work. She conveys his fully engaged understanding of Hofmann’s insights into the creation of space, the play of volumes, the language of color, the complexity of planar tensions. . . all while attending closely to Gahagan’s conviction that individual perception is one of a kind and as such crucial to the painter’s enterprise. ... Paint Until Dawn provides the perfect enactment of Hofmann’s protean thought through the lived experience and searching intellect of perhaps his greatest exponent, James Gahagan. It’s difficult to imagine a more concise and specific delivery system for these ideas than this beautiful film.”