I first saw Ripple on its opening night. Formally a residence in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Ripple is a sculpture created on site by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck who carved designs into the six-room, mid-century bungalow over seven months. Ripple was commissioned after the decision to not renovate the bungalow was made. I sat in a patio chair in the backyard for a half … [Read more...]
The cholla garden at Joshua Tree: paintings by William Clarkson
An appreciation of the Cholla bush representing survival in a harsh environment. … [Read more...]
The place where someone’s waiting for me: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
These collages have been made on screen prints which I printed several years ago. When I found the prints, just as if I read the old letters from the old friends, I felt a nostalgia. ― I miss you. ― Mom's stew is the best. ― Now I'm on a homeward-bound ship. So I will write the first line to meet them again. … [Read more...]
Visual poetry from The City of Dreadful Night by Andre Bagoo
For life is but a dream whose shapes return — James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night These pieces are excerpted from Andre Bagoo's The City of Dreadful Night, a sequence of visual poems published by Prote(s)xt, Bristol, in May 2018. They are inspired by James Thomson's poem of the same name, first published in … [Read more...]
Divine Decay by Kon Markogiannis
Divine Decay is a series of photographic/mixed media constructions informed and inspired by holy texts, illuminated manuscripts, death memorials, sacred geometry, religious icons, and Renaissance panel paintings. The work deals with memory, remembrance, and decay and tackles issues such as spirituality which is often neglected but also essential for the well-being and inner … [Read more...]
Cy Twombly’s Lepanto Green
Someone has razed the house and hung its walls vandalized by a tormented resident. Standing back affronted, but scrutinizing the display nevertheless, twelve panels come into view as if roof, hallways, furniture, and floors of this dwelling has been shunted. These are walls, scrawled upon and dirtied by a frenzied hand. These are projections, gargantuan biographical Rorschach … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by Cam Scott: Spools/Burrs (for Clark Coolidge)
Influenced by copy art and zine making, my work uses the copier or scanner as a means of drawing, often adapting, or 'quoting,' a source of conceptual significance. In this, a nostalgic practice of the hand is allied to the borrowed rhythms of an all-but-outmoded means of mechanical reproduction. Excerpted here are two suites of elaboration and compression respectively, … [Read more...]
3 visual poems by József Bíró
Joy of Water: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
There is Tamagawa Aqueduct under the Daitabashi Station near the town where I live. The name of the place “Daitabashi” comes from "Daidarabotchi” as a giant in Japanese folklore. Daidarabotchi's huge footprints are said to have created lakes and ponds. I searched for historical materials of underground water in Tokyo, walked by side of the springwater and creeks. When I … [Read more...]
Memory of Place: 8 paintings by Nathalie Tierce
I start with ripping apart issues of Architectural Digest and create dozens of collages very quickly that I make to capture a certain mood. From these compositions, I select the few that I’ll develop into paintings. These are the paintings that make up “Memory of Place”. My emotional connection to an event or place is tied to the space where it happened. A room’s ceiling as … [Read more...]
Passing Through: Paintings by Sky Pape
My abstractions, hybrids of drawing and painting, are made with familiar materials like ink, water, and paper, and often unexpected, improvised tools like palm fronds. My idiosyncratic methods move back and forth between exactitude and intuition, entwining them. These days, I wander looping paths, wondering about connectedness, disruption, and perception. Time, space, scale … [Read more...]
The Roman Arch: paintings by Anna Carina Sinocchi
The Roman arch is the central theme and subject matter of the following works. Historically the arch is the foundation of Roman architecture and is hailed as a triumph of antiquity. It persisted in Italy and proceeds to be embraced by its utilization in today’s world. The Roman arch continues to circulate its meaning and grandeur. The works both on paper and muslin are a … [Read more...]
13 poetic watercolors by Jesse M. Bell
Inspiration for my work comes from many unassuming place—an errant line, a whirl of handwriting, the prickly thatch of cross-hatched marks, a splatter of ink—each element contributing in its own unique way to the formation of my images. The interaction and visual interplay of these symbols and graphical forms is an ever-evolving process of discovery and modification, and … [Read more...]
Portals: Paintings by Silas Plum
Portals is a series that captures events and people at pivotal moments. Man's introduction to Death. A great battle. The decision to analyze or to act. Each of these influence the future. And the band played on. … [Read more...]
9 mixed-media pieces by Mardi de Veuve Alexis
Mardi’s current body of work is inspired by an evolving local urban environment, urbanization as a condition, and contemporary culture. Working for several years from her Venice, CA studio, she was viscerally impacted by the changing neighborhood and demographics, including the noise and energy of new construction- space-saving new buildings, now vertically constructed to … [Read more...]
10 Digital Collages by David Hickman
I am interested in the slow fragmentation of Western values and culture, and how that might be represented visually. … [Read more...]
7 mixed-media works by Fierce Sonia
Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017
Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017. The Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa. On view through 18 February 2018. Curated by Joanna Robotham, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tampa Museum of Art. There is no dedicated catalog for this exhibition but Mernet Larsen by John Yau (Damiani, 2013) is a monograph focusing on Larsen’s work since … [Read more...]
Mashups: Canvases from 2013-2017 by Gregg Simpson
My work is on the border between abstraction and surrealism, formal design and automatism. I begin a work very spontaneously, often with the canvas lying on the ground and soaked with water to make the colors flow. Then I proceed to re-draw and mold the shapes, alternately adding and removing layers of paint to reveal the implicit imagery. Ultimately, the painting tells me … [Read more...]
The Drift of Desire: An Interview with Yongshin Cho
Yongshin Cho is a media artist who has been working in Paris and Seoul. After receiving his BA in painting from Hongik University, Seoul, in 1985, Mr. Cho went on to earn his BA and Master of Fine Arts degree from Université Paris-VIII in 1991 and 1997 respectively. In 1995, Cho was invited as one of the seven media artists, together with Nam June Paik and Bill Viola, to the … [Read more...]
5 paintings by Ishay Rossano
Art is the reflection of the artist in the Well of Wishes A good art grasps the spirit of the times (time and place) with its fingernails, and the spirit of the creative artist, and rises up into the realm of nothingness, leaving the viewer, who looks far below, looking up in amazement. 1. Every artist has his own way of experiencing art. Art is one of the great … [Read more...]
Traveling Home: watercolors by Mattina Blue
"Traveling Home" is a series of floating, totem-like forms, which emerged in the process of painting as if excavated from deep in my subconscious. They're moving with the waves, currents and tides, perpetually shifting, accommodating, adding and subtracting to create inner and outer balance. The paintings represent a private journey to discover/rediscover Home. … [Read more...]
All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon
Painting With abstract painting I'm interested in a process which operates within a personal narrative in concert with the unexpected. I paint, remove paint and repaint striving to bring forward forms, strokes and colors that singularly are incomplete but adjoined constitute a truth about their incongruity. Each painting has its own individualism. Mixed Media/Collage My … [Read more...]
toriot: text art by paul hawkins
"Sometimes people say: 'What the fuck do you think you're doing? That's not art.' I say: 'Fuck off, assholes!'" -- Martin Creed … [Read more...]
The Tempest and the Savages: Franz Marc, Hugo Ball, and a Decisive Moment in Dada-Expressionist Theater With a Special Appearance by August Macke
Introduction This article discusses Franz Marc’s 1914 essay “Das abstrakte Theater”1 (Fig. 01), and the events surrounding an “Expressionist” production of Shakespeare’s Der Sturm planned by Marc and Hugo Ball the same year. Marc’s position in this detour from painting and writing can be understood in terms of his embrace of “die ‘Wilden’” – “the ‘Savages’” – an idea Marc … [Read more...]
4 paintings by Moses Hawk
On the Road Stripped down bare. Art is an expression of the artist’s personality which could be a representation of their emotions, motivations, and intentions. Channeling the void, opening the whorl, cleaning out the id, funneling the spirit—it is an unworldly grasp at the creative bite. It can happen in an instant or be taken over by utter frustration. Doing is the … [Read more...]
All-art issue: in memory of Eileen Enck
This special all-art issue is dedicated to the memory of my late mother-in-law, Eileen Enck. Born in January, she owned the Eileen Enck Gallery in Bellevue, Washington where she featured the work of many Pacific Northwest artists. While the style of artworks in this issue are quite different than those which Eileen exhibited in her gallery, they share the spirit of joy and … [Read more...]
Death to the Rebirth!
A couple of years ago, Leslie and I finally had our first chance to visit Rome. A friend of ours knew somebody down there who was nice enough to let us house-sit for nine days while she was out of town. It wasn’t a lot of time for a city so rich in art and history, so we spent every hour of the day exploring it. We planned routes from site to site, museum to museum, making sure … [Read more...]
Burger Burglar: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
They were just hungry. They didn't want diamonds, naturally, they didn't hope glittering money in their pocket. They ran through the town and ordered chicken burgers at the counter of diner. Burger with plenty of mayonnaise. “I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.” ― Richard Brautigan … [Read more...]
Three Literary-Themed Paintings by Warren J. Cox
Warren J. Cox paints mainly in an objective abstract vein. His pieces frequently imply the presence of system and strong synergy, and sometimes surrealist elements or pareidolia. As with these works, he loves to pay homage to literary figures and their work in unexpected and vivid ways. … [Read more...]
The Owls Series by Francesca Badea
My art deals with escapism. Whether I am creating disconnected psychological worlds, disturbing monsters or dealing with alter egos, the main concern is evading reality. For example, "Owls" series makes reference to an older series that deals with the capacity of the human mind to dissociate within the dissociative identity disorder. I tried to depict both the inner world of … [Read more...]
12 Paintings by Doug Gilbert
As I see it, an artwork presents an intermediate reality between the natural sense-perceived world and the non-sensual interior objects of consciousness. The work itself is, of course, a sense-perceived natural object, but the organization of form and color originates in consciousness and is not in itself part of the natural ecological framework that supports our physical … [Read more...]
6 found-word collages by J.I. Kleinberg
Part of a series that now numbers in excess of 1500, these pieces are assembled from unaltered magazine text in which each "chunk" is roughly the equivalent of a poetic line and without attributable text. … [Read more...]
The seasons: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
The seasons are similar to a Merry-Go-Round. On the beach during the winter, a chill breeze reminds the wagon a cry. It's an ecstatic scream of delight in the summer. … [Read more...]
Buckaroo, Desire, Doghouse, Cowgirl: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
My work abuts the rough edge between freedom and responsibility, nature and culture. It challenges confining conventions and repurposes them into new forms—forms born of urgency and tempered by a quest for beauty and meaning. … [Read more...]
Shelter me! A photo essay by Braxton Younts
Since June 2017, I have been living in homeless shelters in Manhattan. For better or worse, these are the images I have captured. … [Read more...]
12 new collages by Gary Cummiskey
Seven Cloud Paintings by William Clarkson
I have explored a number of painting styles and techniques over many years of making art works. One subject that I keep returning to is clouds. To me they are a vehicle of imagination. At the age of five they were squadrons of B-17s headed to Europe. At forty they were the approach of doom over Lake Michigan. Now they are popcorn over Indiana and an homage to Georgia O’Keefe. … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by József Bíró
8 new mixed-media pieces by Claudio Parentela
I like to discover myself little by little ... a little every day ... every instant ... in the time following the time … following the moon with my feet ... following the most distant planets with my black gloves. Every collage is a journey in and out of me with my dirt pajamas. A beautiful and unique way to communicate with me and with you, now and in the past ... in … [Read more...]
