Craig Hawkins work enhances the beauty of the world around us through the expression of a rich and deeply spiritual faith. Mediating on the word of God, Hawkins hones in on elemental truths of the Bible. The artist creates vivid imagery through transcendental compositions, high contrast narratives, and expressive mark making. The result is an intriguingly unique perspective on religious parables. Hawkins describes his work[…..]
Currently on view at CoLAB Projects in New Orleans is a solo show of new work by Illinois-based artist S.J. Hart. The exhibition, entitled shining with the secret of it, presents paintings from Hart’s Songbirds series. The scenes depicted, like pages from a children’s book but with a slightly sinister slant, are illustrated to the edges with delicate renderings of flora and fauna in a[…..]
New York-based Ben Needham’s precise paintings render houses and wedges of topography with a graceful application of acrylic, gouache and pencil, though the subject matter is decidedly masculine. Layers of terrain are sliced like cake, shown floating on a page of white or plunged into a rich and swirling jewel-toned sea. Sometimes these geographies are strewn together with what looks like red string drooping into[…..]
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, one of San Francisco’s premiere cultural art venues, is currently exhibiting Wallworks featuring artists Makoto Aida, Edgar Arceneaux, Chris Finley, Tillman Kaiser, Odili Donald Odita, Amanda Ross-Ho, Yehudit Sasportas, and Leslie Shows. The exhibition is the curatorial debut of Betti-Sue Hertz, YBCA’s new Director of Visual Arts, and brings together artists to produce new site-specific wall pieces. Working[…..]
Ibid, the title of a new exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Jennie Ottinger, features dozens of recent oil and gouache paintings and pen drawings. The exhibition, which is currently on view at Johansson Projects in Oakland, CA, presents a cast of odd characters who move seamlessly through varying compositions and activities. Contained within rather reductive environments, these characters congregate in a variety of scenes which[…..]
Bay Area collaborative artists Brody Reiman and Charlie Castaneda are currently exhibiting a new installation at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco. The exhibition titled places we have never been, features a collection of found landscape paintings, some of which date back to the nineteenth century and range in artistic skill level and period. The paintings are supported within the framework of a larger installation[…..]
Oh la la, Daniel Richter’s new exhibition at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin is not what most avid viewers of the artist’s work have come to expect. While it includes over two dozen new paintings by Richter, in a style that is undeniably his own, a number of select new elements leave the exhibition less reconciled – open to the future. The new paintings have[…..]
