Vladimir Houdek Untitled 2016 gouache and acrylic on canvas 31.5" x 19.68"
schleicherlange.com
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Monday, December 11, 2017
Alan Davie
Alan Davie 1920-2014 Invitation to Join The Dance 2012 oil on canvas
jameshymangallery.com
I have posted Alan Davie many times before on this blog. He is touchstone for me from the early 60's when I first was introduced to his work by a professor and friend at SDSU. I identified with Davie's sense of color, iconography, and joyful approach to making paintings and drawings. To me, he was the Scottish Krishna. His use of universal symbols, text and exuberant color as he followed his own distinctive path made him a shaman for me.
Davie passed away at the age of 93 after a long and productive career.
Friday, December 8, 2017
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Friday, December 1, 2017
Douglas Melini
Douglas Melini An Unnamed Flowing 2013 acrylic on canvas artist made frame 67.5" x 45.5"
douglasmelini.com
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Peter Schenck
Peter Schenck Down The Well 2017 acrylic, charcoal, flashe, gouache on canvas 60" x 40"
peterschenck.com
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Alex O Neal
Alex O Neal Hiding Places in a Dream #2
acrylic, collage and graphite on canvas 72" x 36"
alexoneal.com
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Heather Gwen Martin
lalouver.com
Heather Martin had her first major exhibition opening last night at L. A. Louver Gallery in Venice, CA. This new body of work continues to expand and refine her interest in abstraction and color relationships. Skeins of bold color intermingle with fine lines of tertiary, secondary and primary's to give the viewer a glimpse into the other worldly vision Martin is engaged with. Straight forward and luscious, the paintings capture the appearance of a bunch of colored balloons popping simultaneously in space.
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Steve Gibson
Steve Gibson Leaving Cairns 2017 gouache on paper 22" x 30"
I have been revisiting old themes and updating them for the past few years. The above is the most resent example. Reconnecting can bring a new resolution to thoughts and ruminations as a person goes through life. I am reformulating and clarifying how I see the world.
Monday, November 6, 2017
Friday, November 3, 2017
Friday, October 27, 2017
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Anne Seidman
Anne Seidman Untitled 2017 paint, tape, color pencil on rag board mounted on panel
18" x 16"
georgebillis.com
Anne sideman will be showing work at George Billis in Culver City this November. Hope all in L.A. can stop by and see this new work.
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
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.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Friday, August 25, 2017
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Thomas Nozkowski
Thomas Nozkowski R 4 2001 oil on museum board 12 3/4" x 15 3/4"
michaelbergergallery.com
Thomas Nozkowski makes wonderfully evocative abstract paintings, prints and drawings. He usually works on a smallish scale with simple tools like a brush, paint and pencils. What strikes me with his work is the consistency of his vision and modesty of his materials. There is nothing bombastic or over blown with his approach. Each image is worked and reworked until it coalesces into a finished piece. The work seems to free associate itself into existence. Although the work is complex the finished piece never seems labored over, it is as if he willed them into the world and we, the viewers. are the beneficiaries.
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Monday, July 24, 2017
Friday, July 21, 2017
Eric Shaw
theholenyc.com
Shaw has the unique ability to blend high design with witty approaches to abstraction. I have posted his work before and am looking forward to seeing where this talented artist is headed.
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Bruce Thorn
Bruce Thorn Forget About Me 2016 acrylic on linen 16" x 20"
sugarrowstudioandgallery.com
Should you find yourself in Wisconsin this summer, stop by and see Bruce's new paintings. You will not be disappointed.
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Friday, July 7, 2017
William Conger
William Conger Evening Beach 2015 oil on wood 16" x 16"
brunodavidgallery.com
One of Chicago's finest artists, Conger continues to make wonderful paintings as witnessed at the Bruno David Gallery in Saint Louis. He just seems to get better with age and is one of a select few painters I wish I had collected when I was in Chicago.
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Friday, June 30, 2017
Shaun O Dell
Shaun O Dell Old Collection 2014 gouache and archival glue on paper mounted on panel
40" x 29.75"
gallery16.com
Thursday, June 29, 2017
David Willburn
David Willburn Our Smallest Efforts Transform the Landscape 2017 acrylic skins and enamel on paper 18" x 24"
davidwillburn.com
Monday, June 26, 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Alistair Frost/Patricia Tribe
Alistair Frost Kool/Tik 2009 oil on linen 78.74" x 62.99"
zachfeuer.com
Patricia Tribe Gathers 2017 oil on canvas 72" x 54"