Christof Mascher’s show at The Happy Lion Gallery in Los Angeles features a whimsically insidious array of paintings and drawings. Titled ‘Fake Empire,’ the exhibition is the artist’s first U.S. solo show. Mascher’s work eerily merges the expressionistic mark-making with illustrative, though far from literal, imagery and his paintings call to mind scenes from dark fantasy novels. While exhibition titles often seem removed from the[…..]
Artist Taylor McKimens is currently presenting a new group of paintings featuring his signature illustrated grotesque figures and objects in an exhibition titled Sweet Dreams of Phoenix with Gallery Loyal in Stockholm Sweden. The artist renders the mildly monstrous images with color and compassion, drawing influence from sources like MAD Magazine and Garbage Pail Kids. In addition to his paintings, McKimens also created large graphic[…..]
Abstraction and it’s placement in the contemporary situation is clearly addressed in the current installation at Galerie Michelen Szwajcer, exhibiting the Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig. Here he confronts these issues head on, in his first solo exhibition in Belgium. The first room of the exhibition presents a tame presentation of an abstracted domestic setting. It’s a radial remuneration, you can see beds, heads, chairs, and[…..]
Rooted in stenciling and street art, Christofer (Tofer) Chin‘s paintings depict abstracted landscapes and fantasy environments. Blurring the line between nature and architecture, Chin’s rendering of the landscape is represented by geometric abstraction that references architectural elements. These reductive paintings make use of unnatural vibrant colors and geometrical devices which cause a psychedelic dream-like quality where abstract shapes become mountains, roller coast tracks, or large[…..]
In an old wallpaper factory in the West End of Leipzig, Germany is the collective gallery space Tapetenwerk Galerien. One of the contained galleries is display, a space directed by Galerie Emmanuel Post and Kunstraum Delikateessenhaus. Next week display will open the new exhibition “Unschuld in tausend Noten,” featuring watercolor paintings by Berlin-based artist Caro Suerkemper. The artist’s work often contains heightened sexual imagery, exploring[…..]
Daniel Richter’s current show at Regen Projects in Los Angeles couples expressionistic painting with pop-culture imagery. Loud colors and kinetic brushwork characterize Richter’s work and enhance the rockstar warfare that occurs when the subjects in his paintings clash with the vibrant surroundings. The show at Regen Projects also features a series of drawings that give a different picture of Richter’s practice. Less confrontational than the[…..]
Multi-talented artist Donald Urquhart is currently showing stylized paintings, drawings and mixed media at Jack Hanley Gallery in LA. Urquhart devised the exhibition, titled The End, to be a farewell to the past and the included work feels like a montage of 20th Century iconography. Urquhart, who fell in with the infamous performer Leigh Bowery in the 1980s, became an intricate part of London’s campy[…..]
