Merlin James Tool Gate 1983 acrylic on canvas 24.6"x25.2"
www.kerlin.ie
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico 1440-42 Mocking of Christ (cell 7) fresco 71.25" x 59.45"
Convento di San Marco Florence, It.
When I saw this group of frescos at the Convento di San Marco in Florence a few years back I understood why Fra Angelico was so important to so many artists. The experience was not only eye opening but extremely emotional on so many levels. Should you find yourself in Florence, do not miss the chance to visit and contemplate these wonderful frescos and paintings.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Jackie Saccoccio
Jackie Saccoccio Portrait: Insist 2013 oil and mica on linen 106"x79"
www.jackiesaccoccio.com
Saccoccio's painting is exuberant and beautiful. She develops the painting by pouring layers of oil paint and mica in the middle of the stretched linen and turning it as the paint dries. I like the performative aspect of the work and the unusual "drawing" effects she achieves during the process. She seems unafraid to destroy elements of beauty to gain the ultimate statement she is after.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
David Reed
David Reed #601 2006-2011 oil and alkyd on polyester 102"x34"
www.davidreedstudio.com
David Reed is a painter originally from San Diego and now living in NYC. His body of work is amazingly consistent over the past 40 years. His investigations into the process of painting have yielded beautiful and mesmerizing works that sometime take years to finish. Many paintings have been over painted and redefined over time. The luminosity of the color seems to glow from within when experiencing each piece.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Patrick Caulfield
Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) Still Life With Dagger 1963 household paint on hardboard 48"x48"
www.tate.org.uk
Another English artist that develops extraordinary compositions with an eye toward the graphic is Patrick Caulfield. Like Winkfield he used unusual combinations of objects and abstract forms outlined with a cartoon line to define the imagery. Similar to each other yet each uniquely different.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Trevor Winkfield
Trevor Winkfield Voyage IV 1998 acrylic on linen 45.5"x61"
www.tibordenagy.com
One of the few painter/writers that has succeeded at both. His pop inspired oblique narratives are a joy to experience.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Thomas Scheibitz
Thomas Scheibitz La Horde oil, vinyl and marker on canvas 110.23"x74.8" 2012
Scheibitz is a German artist that could be the offspring of Picasso and De Chirico. He melds cubist thought and surrealist dreamscapes into his own original style of painting and sculpture. His strong graphic compositions are rife with allusions to the figure, architecture and art history. The elegant line work and off beat color combinations are a hard to beat.
Friday, July 26, 2013
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Irving Petlin
Irving Petlin b. 1934 Echo pastel on hand made paper 10 5/8"x13" 2012
www.kentfineart.net
Petlin was raised in Chicago and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poetic vision of the world is reflected in his etherial imagery often using pastel on paper. The narrative is always there but in a diffused manner. Still working in N.Y.C and Paris and still at the top of his game at 83. Quality has no time line.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Whiting Tennis
www.derekeller.com
Whiting Tennis has work in the 2013 California-Pacific Triennial curated by Dan Cameron at the Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art. His work investigates the fertile ground between narrative and abstract painting. A multi-talented artist, he works in sculpture, painting and music.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
www.hammergallery.com
Autodidactic painter from the Mid West. Von Bruenchenhein was sort of a mystic philosopher who walked his own path to enlightenment. His painting technique reminds me of when I was in elementary school and would do finger painting with Vano and powdered pigments on paper.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Jim Nutt
Jim Nutt b.1938 Coursing 1966 acrylic and collage on plexiglas with painted wooden artist's frame 37"x 26"
www.davidnolangallery.com
Nutt was an artist from Chicago that became a major influence on that city's visual arts culture in the late 60's and through out the 70's. He along with his wife Gladys Nilsson, Suellen Rocca, Art Green, and James Falconer formed what became known as the Hairy Who group.These like minded painters influences were not main stream contemporary art ideas at the time. Formalism, minimalism, abstraction, color field painting, held no interest for them. They, instead, felt a kinship with the outsider world of carny's and self taught artists that they encountered in the mid western cities and environs. The profane, awkward, marginalized world of the every man was where they gleaned their ideas. Highly crafted bizarre narratives became the staple of their world.
He and his associates were the reason I went to grad school at SAIC.
Tomma Abts
www.greengrassi.com
Beautiful, obsessive and exquisite work. Some paintings take months to finish.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel Hat Full of Rain 1996 oil and marker on tarpaulin 180"x144"
Schnabel is a painter and film maker from New York. He was part of the neo-expressionist movement in painting in the early 80's. His persona was a huge part of what drove his career. Although a successful film maker he considers himself a painter first and foremost.
His abstract and text filled work is the most interesting to me. The plate paintings and a lot of the figurative work seems a bit forced for my taste. Adored or dismissed, he is a force in contemporary art.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Shirley Jaffe
Shirley Jaffe b.1927 The Slanting Red 1989 oil on canvas 63"x51"
Jaffe was born in New Jersey and became part of the 2nd generation abstract expressionists. She moved to Paris, France in 1949 and has lived and painted there ever since.
Friday, July 12, 2013
Steve Gibson
Steve Gibson National Park Series 1974 water color and ink on paper 12"x15"
www.stevegibsonart.com
Oh, the excess of youth.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
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