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 … [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, … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Son of Daedalus: poem with 2 paintings by Joost de Jonge
Son of Daedalus 1. I await your stirring of emotion in the needle bushes beside the tree my path like a burning daemon touches no ground to honor your reality is like darkness the night an abyss a deep ocean of swirling blue a hand … [Read more...]
Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest
Now Now is not past, but will be soon, With everything that is to come Under the stars and the white moon. An argued choice we make at noon By midnight sees us drained and dumb. Now is not past, but will be soon. If Armagnac absorbs the … [Read more...]
Alec Clayton: Abstract Paintings from the Retrospective
Alec Clayton will have a retrospective exhibition at the gallery at Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA, from June 28-August 10, 2017, representing 44 years of painting both abstract and figurative paintings. The paintings below are a selection of the … [Read more...]
Motiv Eternal: Paintings by Neco Beth
The motif of my paintings buoys me up as a person. My thoughts, in part pure expressionist, Are soaked in a language that is purely stone-age, For its signs, symbols, its fauna, its surfaces. I began This mode of expression as a stripling, and I … [Read more...]