The artist duo “Os Gemeos” are identical twin brothers from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Os Gemeos gained international notoriety from their ambitious campaign of visual characters in the city of Sao Paulo. Some of these characters are painted six stories high or more. In 1993, while only 19 years old, Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo (Os Gemeos) met with young American graffiti writer Barry McGee. The three[…..]
English painter Richard Patterson takes miniature toys and covers them with voluminous paint, photographs the object and then recreates it in oil on canvas. The artist largely focuses on formal issues in his work literally reducing representation and figuration by covering the figurines in globs of visceral paint. Patterson also draws a connection to art history by referencing color field painters of the modernist period.[…..]
Chicago based artist Leslie Baum is currently exhibiting new oil paintings and watercolors in a solo show titled “The Space Between”. This is the second solo exhibition for Baum with the Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago. Baum’s work references modernist artists like Helen Frankenthaler with thin oil washes while exploring ideas of the confinement of nature through zoos. The artist received her BA from[…..]
Digital artist and painter Yoon Lee creates work that is a metaphor for the exponential growth of technology and information. The scale of these works are often 8 feet tall and 12 feet long and seem to reference the visual dynamism found in the modernist work of artist Jackson Pollock. The digital element employed allows the artist to achieve highly slick surfaces and a mechanical[…..]
The figures that occupy Carol K. Brown‘s paintings appear in isolation, removed from the surrounding environment. These individuals are shown in an ordinary moment and multiplied throughout the pictorial space. Brown begins these works by photographing the subjects and using them as source material. The images are digitally manipulated and then recreated in paint. Often the works are then rescanned and presented in their final[…..]
Painter Adam Cvijanovic renders nature with peak force. The suburban landscape at chaos in the absence of gravity and hyper real images of glaciers and frozen waterfalls are frequent subject matter. The artist also references Renaissance fresco painting updating the process with contemporary materials such as latex applied directly to Tyvek (home construction materials). These panels are then fixed directly to the wall and ceiling[…..]
This fall artist Doze Green presented a series of new paintings titled “Left Hand Path” at Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC. Doze was a pioneer of Hip-hop growing up in Manhattan in the late 70’s along side the Rock Steady Crew and fellow artists Lady Pink, Daze, and Mr. Wiggles. He appeared in classic movies such as Style Wars and Wild Style, and has remained[…..]
