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[…..]
In March of this year Pierogi Leipzig presented the first extensive exhibition of Ward Shelley‘s Timeline paintings called the Re-materializing Art. These are elaborate works that describe art-historical narratives using illustration, data plotting, and graphical conventions. Each piece references a different figure of recent art history such as Arto Lindsay, and Carolee Schneemann. Other works will address groups and movements such as the Velvet Underground.[…..]
California based painter Jeff Soto is having an exhibition next month title “Cold Ice Age” with the Black Market Gallery in Los Angles. Themes present in this new show consist of Soto’s staple imagery of robots, toys, monsters and dreamy surrealism, but this exhibition is rooted in new ideas of world war and global energy crisis. Soto has been featured in several art and contemporary[…..]
Josh Keyes is an Oakland based painter drawing attention to the complex interaction and overlay of urban development and the natural environment, exploring the idea of nature as an expendable object. Keyes is a graduate of the Yale School of Art and has been featured in New American Paintings and most recently on San Francisco based FecalFace.com. In 2007 Keyes will have a new solo[…..]
Tattfoo Tan is a NYC based art who creates painting, live drawing, and even baked bread sculptures as a way of exploring his roots as a Southeast Asian descendent. Tan, 30, is one of very few Malaysian artists in New York, and as of now the only one with his own public exhibition space, simply called the Tattfoo Temple Gallery located in the artist’s spacious[…..]
