Alice Land Smiley 2012 acrylic on canvas 138" x 94"
kwgallery.com
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Joseph E. Yoakum
Joseph E. Yoakum A Granie Mt. Riverside Cal. pencil and watercolor on paper 9" x 12"
carlhammergallery.com
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Iain Dean
Iain Dean Violence Of Silence ( Soft Moans) 2015 oil and enamel on canvas
51.18" x 38.18
fortdelta.com.au
Friday, October 23, 2015
Charles Mayton
Charles Mayton Seasick 2015 Acrylic and collage on canvas 72" x 60"
thomasduncangallery.com
Thomas Duncan has been showing work for 3 years now in LA. His gallery on Melrose just east of Highland is in a growing area for galleries which was an astute move 3 years ago before the recent growth spurt.
The current exhibition of paintings by Charles Mayton is up until the end of the month and should not be missed by anyone who enjoys contemporary painting. Duncan has a particularly good eye for painting and Mayton's exhibition demonstrates that fact.
I like the way Mayton integrates abstraction and figuration with equal vigor. He demonstrates, in the recent body of work, a unique approach to image making and story telling that is more poetic than didactic. Sort of an open ended non-linear approach that other artists currently are exploring as well.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Joshua Miller
Joshua Miller Love And Boredom 6 oil on canvas 72" x 50"
joshuajonmiller.com
Joshua Miller is a painter from San Diego now living in LA. He is a recent graduate of the MFA program at UCSD. His painting is hauntingly beautiful and strange. He also uses ceramic as a substrate that he manipulates by reconfiguring the basic form and glazing with a painters aesthetic. He is a young man on a mission and definitely worth following.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Benjamin Edmiston
Benjamin Edmiston Swamp Thing 2014 oil and acrylic on canvas 72" x 68"
Nick Wilkenson introduced me to Benjamin Edmiston's work a few weeks back on a road trip to Central Coast. Nick has a good eye for artists and Ben is one of them for sure. I think it's another example of how we all find connections if we just look with an open heart and inquisitive mind. Ben is in a group show at Left Field Gallery in San Luis Obispo now through Nov. 1st.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Tomory Dodge
acmelosangeles.com
Tomory Dodge's new show at ACME is reason enough for me to want to go to LA for the day just to see this show. I think he is one of the best painters in LA today. His abstract mash ups of formal abstraction, allusion to figuration and landscape have always struck a chord with me. Here is an artist that has acknowledged the history of painting, digested it, and came up with an authentic voice in the medium. Always solid even when the work is a bit gangly.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Matt Carter
Matt Carter Dead Rabbit 2015 mixed media on fabric 50" x 32.5"
luisdejesus.com
Matt Carter is having his second show at Luis De Jesus in Culver City and it is a knock out.
I like the way he subverts the paintings structure by using a wonky framing system and unconventional materials applied to the fabrics he chooses to stretch on them. There is an exuberance and playfulness but underneath it all there is a seriousness that cuts to the chase in contemporary painting issues facing artists today.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Brooke Moyse
Brooke Moyse Blue Painting 2011 oil on canvas 30" x 22"
brookemoyse.com
I came across Brooke Moyse's work on Curating Contemporary, Brian Edmonds curatorial website and on line gallery. The show was curated by Polly Shindler who I will be posting later.
I really like the way Moyse paintsit is as if she were resolving the work as it goes. Spontaneous and controlled all at the same time allowing her intuition to guide her as she fleshed out the piece. Congratulations to Brian for another fine on line exhibition.
curatingcontemporary.com
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Matias Krahn
Matias Krahn 2015 Siete oil on wood 20" x 20"
matiaskrahn.net
Krahn has a new website up with current work that is colorful and quite painterly. I like the way he has developed his work over the past 10 years. He conflates his early interest in surrealism with abstract tropes to make thoughtful work as illustrated in the image above.
Small format does not detract from the power of these intuitive offerings.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Doug Holst
Doug Holst Untitled 2014 acrylic with pencil on paper 24" x 19"
dougholst.tumblr.com
Holst does abstract paintings based on his observations in nature, especially
trees. This is an exceptional example of his recent investigations done in a
straight forward and elegant manner.
