Artist Ross Bleckner recently exhibited a series of new paintings at the Mary Boone Gallery Chelsea location. Bleckner employs a series of leaf-and-vine pattern in each of the works which optically seems to hover over the painting surface. The “Meditation” paints reference spiritual imagery such as mandalas. The paintings, which use both symbolic and organic forms simultaneously, operate on both a formal and conceptual platform.[…..]
Alber Oehlen, a German artist who currently lives and works in Bizkaia, Spain has been on the international radar for decades as a provocative painter. The artist studied with Sigmar Polke in the mid-seventies at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Hamburg and emerged in the 1980’s along side artist Martin Kippenberger. Oehlen challenges painting today by rigorously investigating and referencing historical painting from many periods, simultaneously.[…..]
Glasgow-born painter Kaye Donachie bases her work on found imagery and film footage of rebellious members of counter-culture groups. The work directly confronts power structures and the dynamics of social groups to reveal patterns found in cultural references that have become a part of a collective consciousness. The artist also manipulates these references so that they operate as a narrative, building connections between the past[…..]
Young Toronto-based painter Shauna Born has gained critical acclaim for her figurative paintings which intimately feature the artist’s friends and acquaintances. Her quietly composed works focus mainly on the humanistic and expressive qualities of her subject’s face and hands. Born renders each character with great painterly attention, formally constructing the surface to reveal a ghostly quality. Through these works, the artist is able to explore[…..]
Curated by Thibault Sandret of Glam Trash Pop and hosted by Virginie Sommet‘s Studio/Gallery 173 on Canel Street is the exhibition “Don’t Call It Street Art,” which will be on open to the public beginning this weekend on Dec 15th. The group show celebrates Street Art through photography, painting, collage, graphic design and live body painting. By taking the art out of its urban context[…..]
Opening on Dec 14th at the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco is “Introspective”, featuring the work of London-based artist Gee Vaucher. The gallery will present a collection of works by Vaucher that spans the past forty years. The artist is known for creating controversial work rooted in protest and is an icon among the punk generations. She’s completed work for the punk band Crass[…..]
Artist David Ambrose is showing this month at the Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta. Ambrose’s abstract-oil paintings are rooted in the design found in architectural facades, interiors and floor plans. Created on pieces of lace and crocheted material that have been sewn together; the artist then takes the hand-sewn materials and stretches them like a canvas over stretcher bars. Ambrose received his BA from Muhlenberg[…..]
