We’re all deeply concerned how this crisis is affecting so many lives, loved ones and communities throughout the world. I’ve tried many times to find words to express something meaningful, only to find with each attempt I come up woefully bankrupt. Maybe it’s because what I want to say, all the comfort I […]
APRIL 1, 2020 BY CATHERINE KIRKPATRICK Artists on Coping: Helen O’Leary During the Coronavirus pandemic, Art Spiel is reaching out to artists to learn how they are coping. Photo by Eva O’ Leary, Fader Magazine Helen O’Leary is an Irish-born artist best known for constructions that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, object and image. She trained […]
March 7, 2020 – July 26, 2020 East Building, Level B, Joyce W. Pope Gallery Throughout modern art history, painting has been declared dead and later resuscitated so many times that the issue now tends to has largely been ignored. Despite any debate over painting’s viability, artists continue to persevere in keeping the medium fresh […]
Linda Sormin Linda Sormin explores vulnerability, upheaval and change through sculpture and site-responsive installation. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, she immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of five. After working in community development for four years in Thailand and Lao PDR, Sormin studied ceramics at Andrews University, Sheridan College and Alfred University (MFA […]
With clay and glaze, Miles reminds us that we are sensate, animal beings in a physical world. We don’t just look at his sculptures. We use them. In our bending and stooping and peeking, we fit ourselves into his corpulent, bristling forms, discovering how art communicates.
The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced today that thirty-seven artists were selected to participate in its artist-in-residence program at its center in New Orleans.
Posted on 21 January 2020. by David M. Roth Brad Brown: Clockwise L to R: Piece 308 (Untitled), 2018, oil, basswood, plywood, brads; Piece 69 (Itch), 2004-2012, oil, canvas, masonite; Piece 298 (Untitled), 2012-2018, oil, acrylic, walnut ink, plywood, brads; Piece 170 (Lascaux Thought Balloon), 2004-2017, oil, canvas, masonite, plywood, screws. 12 x 12″ ea. […]
If you’re looking for the works that pack the most coloristic punch in a small package at the current edition of UNTITLED, ART in San Francisco, you could do worse than to spend some time with San Francisco artist Ramekon O’Arwisters, at San Francisco dealer Patricia Sweetow’s booth.
All of these ceramic works are put through multiple stages of kiln firing: glazed then fired, then, possibly, exploding or breaking apart, then being fired in the kiln again.
Markus Linnenbrink: Little Journeys and Cosmic Buckshot by Julia Couzens In the Studio: The Making of HELLOIMYOURNEWTREE Markus Linnenbrink’s dazzlingly seductive work functions like painting, but it isn’t. Working with epoxy resin, wooden supports, pigment, and a router mobilized by two joysticks, Linnenbrink constructs objects that examine both painting and sculpture. He […]