sarajofrieden.net
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Gail Roberts
scottwhiteart.com
Gail Roberts is a painter living in San Diego. Her new show at Scott White Contemporary is a must see. She has always done landscape based impressionistic realism. In this new body of work she has abandoned the reference to a specific landscape to allow the beauty of the floral subject matter take center stage.
I have always appreciated her technical skill with a paint brush but these new iterations have been taken to an all new level of competence and aesthetic understanding. The exhibition will be up Sept. 23 through Nov. 11.
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Steve Roden
inbetweennoise.com
Steve Roden is one of Southern California's most interesting artists. He is a multi discipline artist using sound, paint and installation in his work. His painting is what intrigues me the most. Using deliberate systems he willfully deconstructs, his paintings have a structure that is beautiful and subverted at the same time. Interesting guy.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Charlene Von Heyl
capitainpetzel.de
Charlene Von Heyl, in my opinion, is one of the most accomplished painters working today.
Her inventiveness, drawing skill, paint handling and moxie knows no bounds.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Karl Wirsum
Karl Wirsum Half Pint Apple Playing Paper Bag Pipe Music 1989 acrylic on canvas with painted wood frame 64.5" x 48.5"
derekeller.com
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Brian Edmonds
brianedmonds.com
Brian Edmonds is a painter from Alabama. He also runs Curating Contemporary, an online gallery of curated exhibitions as well as a blog featuring contemporary artists work and interviews. His paintings of the past few years have gone through a distillation process as he contemplates how the essence of painting can be approached and executed. The above example is one of his recent endeavors. I like the way he uses implied illusion with pure geometric abstraction to come up with a solution.
Friday, September 1, 2017
Gary Stephan
Gary Stephan Untitled 2017 acrylic on canvas 30" x 30"
garystephanstudio.com
As many viewers of this blog know, I am a fan of Gary Stephan. He along with Mary Heilman and a few others that I repeatedly show are touchstones in art for me. Stephan will be exhibiting new works at Galerie Grolle Fredrich-Ebert and Klenzie Art Foundation in Germany this Fall. I am still waiting for the major retrospective he so richly deserves here in the U.S.
Stephan's new work continues his interest in formal abstraction while alluding to illusionary elements that set the viewers experience somewhat askew. He makes paintings that always make me think he is a conjurer of the unexpected in the most wonderful way possible.