The seductive paintings and photographs of Marilyn Minter border both photorealism and abstraction. Her work pieces together commercial depictions of femininity which juxtapose glamour and nausea. The enamel on metal paintings and large format c-prints include references from many major movements both artistically and socially, like early Surrealist photography, post-Warhol pop, advertising and pornography. Minter currently has a solo show at Salon 94 in New[…..]
English artist Simon Henwood has worked through a wide range of artistic media including painting, film, 3D animation, the production of two magazines, and a over a dozen children’s publications. Through this experimentation his work has remained centered on adolescent childhood. Henwood recently created a music video for musician and fine artist Devendra Banhart, and is developing a new animated TV series titled ‘Johnny Pumpkin‘.[…..]
Chinese artist Wei Dong continues the tradition of the Chinese landscape through oil painting, but interrupts the conventional imagery by using women draped in sexuality in the foreground. This imagery is a metaphor for how “sex, violence, and popular culture dominate traditional morals.” After abandoning ink on paper as his primary medium, Wei Dong found oil painting to facilitate his imagery more clearly. Wei Dong[…..]
German artist Florian Sussmayr began his artistic career by exclusively creating portraits. Sussmayr’s new work depicts emotions often excluded from civilized daily life, such as ecstatic excitement, intoxication, and the lack of sexual boundaries. The subjects are taken from puck and rock social scenes, and act as an investigation of the personal attributes of that society. The artist is represented by Gallerie Rudiger Schottle, and[…..]
This April, Peres Projects in L.A. will present Mathew Greene in the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery since 2003. Green creates large drawings and paintings that contain images of pornography, horticulture, horror films, and overall debauchery in an apocalyptic post 9/11 aesthetic. Greene has seen much success recently with a feature in Artforum (January 2004), and in Vitamin D, a new survey of[…..]
Helnwein is a painter and conceptual artist, concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues, and political topics. As a result of this, his work is often considered provocative and controversial. His early work consists mainly of hyper-realistic watercolors, depicting wounded children, as well as performances, often with children, in public spaces. Most of his new work is oil and acrylic on canvas of[…..]
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[…..]
