Pilar Agüero-Esparza, 2022 Photo courtesy Pilar Agüero-Esparza Claiming Space: Refiguring the Body in Landscape About The large-scale painted and woven canvas tapestry mural by Pilar Agüero-Esparza, brings together the power of the hand-made, references to the body through skin color and prismatic color found in the landscape. While juxtaposing ideas related to social hierarchies and […]
Pilar Agüero-Esparza is a mixed media artist working in painting and spatial processes…
Pilar Aguero-Esparza’s Ferguson 7: Sepia and Mahogany (2017), crayon, color pencil on paper, is a simple yet powerful image of resistance.
OUT OF VERY LITTLE: A CONVERSATION WITH HELEN O’LEARY by Kay Whitney May/June 2024
At a distance, the monumental nine-panel painting appears to be an explosion of black calligraphic brushstrokes and electric neon-toned splashes. Wakana Kimura’s (b. 1978) work CHARACTER is a dynamic yet elegantly balanced exploration of the energy expressed in line and color, one that pays homage at once to the Abstract Expressionist movement of the West and the bold Zen Buddhist brush painting of her home country, Japan.
In 1994, master printer Sarah Amos and Vermont Studio Center co-founder Jon Gregg launched a 10-year printmaking revolution by inviting renowned contemporary artists for week-long collaborations to work with Amos at the center.
Philadelphia Art Alliance at UArts is proud to present (re)FOCUS:
Four women artists from Ireland and the diaspora explore notions of home, place and displacement
MacDowell has awarded the equivalent of more than $2.3 million in fellowships to 155 artists from 30 U.S. states and 14 countries