Cassandra Tondro sent me her work, which is quite beautiful. She combines and applies paint onto canvas in unusual ways, mixing and concocting like a “mad scientist.” She uses repurposed acrylic latex paint, also known as house paint, that she saves from reject shelves before it is sent to landfills.
Lorraine Peltz will be exhibiting some of her new works beginning this week at Micaela Gallery. She is best known for her acrylic and oil paintings featuring ornate chandeliers on dark backgrounds that look like fireworks in the night sky.
From the release:
Peltz’s paintings are complex ruminations on the nature of private identity and public persona. Using imagery culled from both personal history and the contemporary moment the current paintings include the remembered image of a particular chandelier and through its simultaneous resolution and dissolution shift the focus to memory, which can be both melancholic and exuberant. Included also in the exhibition are paintings where she joins that image with patterned flowers, starbursts, and decorative flourishes to present the now – particularly in relationship to women and culture.
What: Lorraine Peltz New Works
When: March 2, 1010 – May 1, 2010
Where: Micaela Gallery, 49 Geary St. San Francisco, CA 94108
Odili Donald Odita has created the most beautiful acrylic on canvas work. I’d love to see this over a modern fireplace, but then again? It would completely overshadow the fireplace itself, wouldn’t it?
Lovely.
Barclay Douglas is an illustrator and designer, but his recent work includes a series of sculptural paintings called “Fools Gold.” The 30″x40″ piece has roughly 40 to 60 plastic bags, ripped up, hardened, and painted gold, representing “the want again of the piece which was once consumed, trashed, and now resurrected.”
If you’re in Berlin, don’t pass up the opening reception of Emil Holmer – Dead Letters at Galerie Michael Janssen on March 12, 6-9 p.m. Emil’s painting are dark, featuring body parts, distorted figures, and weapons yet colorful and full of firework-like explosions of paint.
The large format paintings are violent image symphonies, in which the density inherent in every depicted scene creates a blur, straining the viewer’s eyes. Drawing on such areas as psychopathology, fear, power, sexuality and the body, Emil Holmer is strongly influenced by pop culture, midway between the horror film and the comic strip.
What: Emil Holmer – Dead Letters
When: March 13, 2010 – April 22, 2010
Where: Galerie Michael Janssen, Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 26,10969 Berlin
Are you prepared to enter the colorful world of Jeaneen Carlino?
At first, I thought these were digital images, but in fact they are mixed media acrylic paintings on wood!
Elizabeth Sheppell sent over her recent work this weekend, and wow — her paintings are quite surreal. In her newest series, she explores mark making by cutting back into the work.
I found Lisa Hamilton on Booooooom, and her work is right up my alley.
Heather Patterson recreates geographic patterns and forms and then layers them to make up new systems in the environment.
We posted about her work back in 2006, but I’m loving her updated goodies. Simply amazing.
Janelle from Vastu emailed me about Allen Levy’s abstract paintings. His peaceful pieces resemble distant, blurred landscapes, but this one in particular stood out and reminded me of vital signs.
