Phillip Buntin will exhibit a series of oil and acrylic paintings this month at RHV including “X, Y, Z” pictured above. His paintings look like what you might find in a Petri dish underneath a microscope.
What: Phillip Buntin
When: March 10, 2010 – April 11, 2010
Where: Robert Henry Vintage, 683 6th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215
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.
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
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.
Chilean artist Tom Araya creates vibrant abstracts and his textures paintings are most intriguing. The paint is bunched up in the middle in little clusters that look like they’re ready to burst.
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.
Melissa McClain “paints” fine art with her camera. A self-taught photographer from Dallas, she now lives in New York and captures abstract art in everything she sees.
Beautiful portfolio.
I found Sigrid Sandström via the Little Paper Planes blog. I agree with Kelly when she says they are kind of like mind-mapping — you can see how it looks like there are incomplete parts or holes just as there are when we look back into the past. Rather than filling them with something false, the artist chooses to keep the spaces blank.
Looking closer, the shapes feel like leftover scraps from a craft project, or similar to that big board of clippings, evidence, and photos in a crime scene investigation.
