Photorealist painter Damian Loeb just closed an exhibition in his home state of Connecticut at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum this August. Loeb creates manipulated digital collages of contemporary sources and then renders the images in oil on linen. At an early age Loeb moved to NYC with his high school friend artist Moby, and in 1999 he had his first solo exhibition in NYC[…..]
Homostatic Feedback or Natural Body Water is the title of a new piece by Tavares Strachan. In this work the artist collected his own urine, which he then transformed into purified drinking water using a fabricated distillation system. The work will be on exhibit this month at Pierogi in Brooklyn along side three other major works. The Ronald Feldman Gallery has also sponsored projects by[…..]
Sam Durant is an artist interested in weaving together ideas of art history, pop culture, and social protest to build the vocabulary of his art. Recently featured in Vitamin D, a new survey of drawings published by Phaidon Books, Durant quotes Lenny Bruce, saying, “Humor is pain plus time” to describe the fundamentals of his work. Based in L.A., Durant was recently review in Artforum[…..]
Egyptian born artists Ghada Amer creates hand-embroidered painting that use repetitive patterns which contain images of women taken from pornographic references. Amer challenges the male dominated language of Modernism by employing “craft-based” techniques like embroidery over abstract painting, further underscoring this idea by using imagery that attracts the male gaze. Ghada Amer was selected for exhibition in Whitney Biennale 2000, and has had international solo[…..]
Monica Cook has been creating autobiographic self portraits which investigate memories while simultaneously exploring elements of daily observation. Cook is a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design and recently completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She was included in a group exhibition at Stricoff NYC this year, and was featured in the Southern edition of New American Paintings[…..]
Illustrators and fine artists James Jean and Kenichi Hoshine have created an artist collaboration entitled Polite Winter. Through this project these artists have brought to life a graphic narrative throughout a series of paintings and collages. James Jean has been an illustrator for clients like the NY Times, Fables, ESPN, and Nike, and has created his own online store called Process/Recess. Kenichi Hoshine has shown[…..]
Jackie Nickerson is a photographer who recently spent two in a half years in Southern Africa documenting Zimbabwe farmers and farmland issues. Nickerson has experience as a fashion photographer and her work continues to have a focus on clothing and materials. Each figure seems to be identified more by their fashion than any other element. In 2005 Nickerson had a solo exhibition titled “Farm and[…..]
