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.
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.
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.
W Magazine sent over a link to a fantastic article where writer Diane Solway interviews Canadian artist Karel Funk re: the inspiration behind his portraits and the urbanites they depict.
A stand-out quote from the article?
On how riding the New York City subway changed his career: “I was fascinated by how this boundary of personal space completely disappeared on the subway. You could see the details of somebody’s ear or neck that you’d never observe just socializing with friends because there’s this boundary we all keep.”
Karel’s art will be featured at New York’s 303 Gallery in April. So excited!
I stumbled on the abstract paintings of Linda Monfort while searching Etsy for something totally unrelated. I’m so glad that I did. This veteran award-winning California artist paints acrylic abstracts as well as figurative pieces and landscapes. Check her work out in her Etsy shop.
I’m speechless when I look at the paintings of Henrique Oliveira.
