These are done with oil on canvas; some employ cold wax. I like minimalist landscapes and seascapes. Flowers in groups of two. No people! Rep shots are from the Pacific Northwest, my home for the past 37 years. … [Read more...]
Certain People by Lita Kenyon
Lita Kenyon’s mixed media pieces offer hints at humanity translated through persistent, abstract shapes. Living and working in Tacoma, WA near Seattle, collage and drawing is a search for form and how to make forms with an element of surprise becalming the inexplicable, urgent and awkward. With a keen interest in process, particularly the process of exploring the space … [Read more...]
Bowls: Six paintings by Kate Brown
These paintings are each 18 x 24, acrylic on canvas, 2018. … [Read more...]
Utterance: Paintings by Samia Soubra
Screenpaintings by Shih Yun Yeo
The artist calls these paintings, created by a combined procedure of screen printing and painting, Screenpaintings. Silk screening technique, as it is used here, is not treating the silkscreen as a machine in Andy Warhol's days but as another type of artist's brush. Positive films are created when the artist paints on them using large Chinese brushes and ink. During the … [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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 grasping faith absentminded fulfillment of a hunger for truth 2. Wings unfold through lines jotted down … [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 prune And tells us it was once a plum Under the stars—and the white moon Silvered its rustling leaves one June— The memory’s … [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 abstract work to be shown in the exhibit. Artist's Statement: These are abstract paintings inspired by movement in nature … [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 own it Contra-punctually against a rationality in art that I find finally sterile. Here, I'm at home. Fascinated. I … [Read more...]
Blue Heart Jazz: Paintings by Rachel Davis and Poems by Sam Silva
MIDNIGHT CALLS A POEM Midnight calls a poem for empty prayers or empty praise and now I am alone in the shell of the dark after that bored terror of the days ...and soon I will be a bird, a dove, a crow, a dizzy lark in a lullaby meant for the Moon and summer stars and winter snow ...but calling instead for morning just as I always do and a paradise of … [Read more...]
Icarus: Paintings by Joost de Jonge
daredevil it felt as if he was made out of gold his head rested upon his shoulders weightless, his father called for him but Icarus seemed hypnotised lost in a curve of endless blue the sun in his eyes as if he was made out of gold "I'm a bird”, he must have thought as feathers whirled round his head was in a spin never revealed floating in blue … [Read more...]
The Enfolded: Collage Paintings by Ginnie Gardiner
My working method since the mid-1990s has been to create equivalent color palettes from my collage and montage studies for translation into the medium of oil paint. In all of my paintings, I have sought color mastery and color is the subject of my work. Both Josef Albers and Charles W. Hawthorne were obsessed with creating the illusion of transparency in the opaque medium of … [Read more...]
New paintings by Barry Johnson
I am not an artist. I am not a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, or content creator. Everything I've made was done so to maintain my sanity and health. Not creating physically pains me. All work is a response to what's happening across my mind and the world. It's not Pop, abstract, surreal, or modern. It's a cultural response. I don't follow art trends or … [Read more...]
Almost There: Paintings by Lauralee Sikorski
3 Paintings by Merlin Flower
You I made a self-portrait. the chin was longer the bushy eyebrows the same. Friend said it looked like an orange. I thought it was you. not the jaw, not the eyes, not the face. You. dangle Running from the fire it struck me- the warmth was actually cozy and pleasing. Should I turn to burn or run to embrace the spring ahead? Rain Pelting on the mind, … [Read more...]
The Mists of Youth: Oil Paintings
Artist's statement: The series of works presented here portrays the state of alienation as a pervasive human condition, in particular, the one that engulfs parents and children during the long battle with drug addiction. Books have been written, talks have been given, but one thing only needs to be highlighted for children to remember: their addiction … [Read more...]
Paintings by Abstract Painter Joost de Jonge
Artist's statement: I proclaim the freedom of abstract art to be self-referential. To be a joyous play of form and color, rhythm is at the heart of my compositions, the pulse which is hidden there, reflects the living pulse of my heart and the workings of my flesh. Here though spaciousness is evoked as if without corporeal existence, a play of the mind. Truly the colors can … [Read more...]
Dearly Beloved, Part I: Growing up in 1950s San Francisco
In San Francisco, a handsome old Lutheran Church is for sale. My "Beat Generation", progressive, bohemian, intellectual, Jewish, left-leaning, scholarly, non-conformist, art professor parents, Leonard and Helen Breger, are deeply devout prolific artists. They buy the church. It promises walls galore for hanging their growing bodies of artwork. The basement Sunday School … [Read more...]
Sleevelessness
My mom’s job is to sit on a stool in our basement. Thatʼs where her art studio is. She has a drawing table there that has a square leaned-up top and ink stains all around the edges. When she’s not making her own art, my mom draws fashion illustration ads for the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper, and for the Joseph Magnin Department Store. She makes pictures of all the … [Read more...]
Mixed Media Paintings by Tina Garvin
Artist's statement: This collection of mixed media paintings is inspired by the tension between the nature that surrounds us and our own inherent natures.These paintings are a series of communications. The symbolism, color, and movement in each artwork conveys a truly unique exchange and one that cannot be replicated. … [Read more...]
On Painting On
“Why are the paintings going away?” Mommy explains: ”Your dad is having a very important one-man show at a big fancy gallery across from The San Francisco Opera House. We're going to get all dressed up and attend the opening.” I get to go and not wear my pajamas with feet. The grown-ups that belong to my friends will be there, the City Lights poets, the artists we … [Read more...]
The Rift in Time: Paintings by Rodica Miller
Introductory note: “The Rift In Time” series of works is a journey that starts from our inner world and continues onward to the stars. With delicate care, I try to render the ghostly energy waves reaching our senses, and the nostalgia of perishable things such as pomegranates, water lilies, and even the potent perfume of love letters, all perishable just like the stars … [Read more...]
Rik Lina Art Exhibit: Selva Tropical – Canto de Pássaros, May 16-July 31 2015
Rik Lina sends an announcenent of his new exhibition, Selva Tropical - Canto de Pássaros (Tropical Jungle - Singing Birds) which runs May 16 through July 31, 2015. The location is: Fundação Dionisio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro AGUEDA - Portugal Here are some images to whet your appetite! Please visit Rik Lina's website and also … [Read more...]
