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Recently I got to check out Francesco Longenecker’s work at Rare Gallery. Longenecker paints quirky, colourful compositions that employ the use of hinterglasamaleri- a type of reverse glass painting. It’s interesting to see how Longenecker takes this method into such an expressive route. It makes for a strange optical phenomena dealing with space that gives [...]
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It’s just acrylic paint, but boy, does Rotterdam-based artist Daan Botlek make some very unsettling work from it. His works are heavily driven by contorted bodies, stripped skin and exposed flesh rearranged to form new meaning, and they have this visceral undertone that’s sort of cool and disturbing at the same time.
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On view at Tazza Gallery is the work of Italian artist, Alessandro Del Pero. Of his artwork, writer Veronica Santi says: ‘a painting by Alessandro Del Pero does not pretend to be self-referential. It holds its place with dignity, immolating itself to public judgement without shame; moreover, it can be understood as a true and [...]
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Man and nature. Can they ever co-exist in peace? In French-born photographer Jean-Paul Bourdier’s Bodyscapes series, the answer seems to be ‘yes’. What Bourdier does is to paint his human subjects’ bodies so that they seamlessly blend into their natural surroundings like chameleons. The result? Extremely poetic.
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Meghan Howland’s surreal paintings have a unsettlingly beautiful quality about them. They leave the viewer with a sense of heavy, dreamlike emotion.
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Okay, full disclosure, Miss Cassie is my wife and no longer technically a Miss, I suppose. Her artwork is dense and complicated, full of pathos, and never fails to inspire me. Throughout our 17 year relationship, I have watched her work evolve, grow, and change into what it has become today. I am particularly intrigued by her more recent work, which mixes a fascination with Japan, printing techniques, recent motherhood and frozen charlottes. I am looking forward to an exhibition in the spring at newly re-located Slingluff Gallery in Calicoon, NY.
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The acrylic art of English painter Rachael Adams gives the impression to be stills of memories from her youth, growing up in the countryside surrounded by nature and animals. But once you take a look past the bright colours and her well developed personal style and read a bit more about her work, you’ll find absences and isolation too, which makes you relate to her work on a very personal level.
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This is just really awesome. Reddit user Max Galuppo went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, took a bunch of pictures, and realised later that his likeness was contained within a 1562 artwork he posed next to. The artwork, Portrait of a Nobleman with Duelling Gauntlet, was done by an anonymous artist. It’s kind of [...]
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Eastern European art has always had a very distinct style. It’s the pure and sharp, sometimes almost brutal style many of them use. Same with Russian illustrator Dima Rebus. His work is pretty frank and critical, no disguise. But you still get a bit of a mystical and vague feeling when you look at his work realizing somehow that there is a lot more hidden in these watercolor illustrations than you thought in first place.
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I fell in love with Kim Deakins the first time I saw her paintings. Then I fell in love with her again while she told me long and intricate stories about the lives of the characters she paints as we chatted at a bar on the eve of her MFA graduation. Then, again, when I independently discovered that she too is transfixed by teeth and delighted in making up fake band names. Far as I know, she’s involved. So I got her to give me a tattoo.
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Contemporary painter Josh Keyes has a new show in Seattle. I love his clean, sharp style and the way he constructs his art. Make sure to check out his studio blog. He builds little sets, and combines random elements, objects and animals to form what he calls ‘a hybrid of eco-surrealism and dystopian folktales that express a concern for our time and the Earth’s future’.
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I have this piece of art hanging on my bedroom wall. 1950s America is an area of great interest for me. If there was one time period I was allowed to go back and live through, that would be it. The explosion of rock ‘n’ roll and the prospect of being able to see Elvis [...]
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Chris Valkov is an artist here in Portland making unique work with the precision of a computer. Employing One Shot enamel as his medium, his meticulous arrangements take on a super clean look. Something about the work seems to be familiar yet completely fresh.
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On first sight, the paintings of British artist Katie Sims seem to be very dynamic and in movement. On second sight, you can spot abstract landscapes and rural environments. And if you’re a total pro, you realize that a lot of her paintings are a homage to the masterpieces by Mantegna and Poussin, but translated in a contemporary context by undermining the compositional structure of the original masterpiece.
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Louise Hearman produces imaginative paintings with the use of vibrant and enticing colours and shadows. They hold theatrical notions as people can be seen hovering in a darkened blue skies with foreboding clouds.
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