Saturday, November 8, 2014

Brian Guidry

                  Brian Guidry  Oxizion  2014  acrylic, oil on canvas  40.5" x 33"
                  brianguidry.com
                    Guidry is a painter from Louisiana  that uses geometry and nature to inform 
                  and guide his painting. Refracting light on water, vegetation, machinery all come              
                  together as he builds his abstract hi-breds.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Alex Hubbard

Alex Hubbard  Untitled  2013  acrylic, oil paint, resin, polyurethane, and fiberglass on canvas-wooden stretcher

www.standardoslo.no

Thursday, November 6, 2014

You Ni Chae

         You Ni Chae  Double Dutch  2013  oil on canvas  20" x 18"
          younichae.com

You Ni Chae is a graduate of SAIC originally from So. Korea. She blends her Asian history with current trends in abstract painting in a most interesting way. I get the feeling that scholar rocks and mid-west landscape have been conflated to become her her own unique visual language. Elegant and tough, diaphanous and concrete, beautiful and unsettling.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Pius Fox


                       Pius Fox  Drauben  2011  oil on paper  24" x 17"
                       piusfox.com

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Nick Stolle


                    Nick Stolle  Sad  2012  acrylic on wood panel  11" x 9"
                     nickstolle.org

Monday, November 3, 2014

Wendy McLean


                     Wendy McLean  Glass  2013  oil and pencil on cotton 32" x 22.44"
                     wendymcleanartist.wordpress.com
                        Thanks to Stephen Paraise for mentioning Wendy McLean's website to 
                      me. She is a British painter that shares an aesthetic with many other 
                      painters that I post. Just enough implied and not encumbered with
                      the unnecessary.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Steve Gibson


                      Steve Gibson  Tube Ride  2012-2014  oil on linen  24" x 18"
                       www.stevegibsonart.com

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Matthias Zinn


Matthias Zinn  Window  2011-12  oil on canvas  59.5" x 43.30"
matthiaszinn.de
I don't know why Zinn's painting feels so right when it looks to be so wrong. The over painted element in white just pulls me into this composition. I love it when a painting does this. Does any one else feel this way?

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Joanna Pousette-Dart

Joanna Pousette-Dart  Red Desert # 2 (diptych)  2005-06  acrylic on canvas over wood panel  66.5" x 87" 
texgal.com

Monday, October 27, 2014

Martin Lukac


Martin Lukac  Rural Pattern  2013  acrylic, enamel paint on plaster on burlap
lukacmartin.com

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Elise Berkvins

       
                   Elise Berkvens  Back Home  2011  oil on canvas  59" x 39.37"
                 users.telnet.be/elise.berkvens/

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Milton Avery

Milton Avery (1893-1965)  Sunday Riders 1929 oil on canvas  30" x 25"  
www.neuberger.org

What could be better than Milton Avery for a Fall day? Always one of my favorite painters for his observational skills and straight forward paint handling.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Chris Martin


Chris Martin  Untitled  2014  oil, glitter, aluminum foil on canvas  64 1/4" x 59 1/4"
antonkerngallery.com

Martin continues his inventive abstraction with a new group of paintings incorporating glitter, foil as well as traditional oil paint. He seems to mashing up pictorial elements of Schnabel and Kelly with low brow aesthetics to form his own painting vernacular. Quite effectively I might add.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Despina Stokou


Despina Stokou  Acknowledgements 1  2012 mixed media on canvas  63.25" x 48"
derekeller.com

Using obfuscated text combined with performative paint application, Stokou sets up a discourse with the viewer of her paintings. Allusions to personal and art world dialogues with supple paint handling are nothing new but Stokou's work strikes a chord that is familiar yet strange. I get the sense that I am looking at the genetic thread of Twombly and Basquiat weaving its way as she navigates through her work.

Monday, October 20, 2014

Joe Bradley

Joe Bradley  Horse Thief  2011  oil on canvas  78" x 89 4/5"
gavinbrown.biz

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Frank Lentini


                      Frank Lentini  Untitled  2011 oil on wood  24" x 18"
                      franklentini.com

                         I like what Lentini doesn't say in his paintings. He alludes to many elements
                      without defining any specific one. This allusion allows him to illustrate the 
                      unknowable as he mines his imagination through his painting.

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Gabriel Hartley


                 Gabriel Hartley  Rave  2014  oil, spray paint on canvas  63 3/4 x 47 5/8"
                  praz-delavallade.com

Friday, October 17, 2014

Becky Yazdan

               Becky Yazdan  2013  Big Dipper  2013  oil on panel  12" x 9"
               beckyyazdan.com

                Yazdan's paintings give evidence that small work can pack a large punch.
               Almost all of the work she produces is smaller that 18" x 24".  Each 
               painting seems much larger with her use of line, color and texture taking the
               viewer to an abstract vision that is evocative and profound.
         

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Keith J. Varadi

                      Keith J. Varadi 2013   2013  oil on canvas  12" x 9"
                      davidsheltongallery.com

Tuesday, October 14, 2014