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Grant Miller
In Grant Miller‘s work, layers of paint build upon architectural interiors into obsessively constructed abstract forms. Grant uses the interior spaces that be begins with as framework for the final painting, which reveals little of its skeletal underpinnings. There is … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Art, Artists, Uncategorized
Tagged artist, Grant Miller, Kansas City, painting
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Eve Aschheim & Agnes Martin
I first saw Eve Aschheim’s work on Joan Mitchell Foundation’s web site. Aschheim received the foundation’s grant in 2008. Immediately after seeing the images the work of Agnes Martin came to mind. Both artists’ delicate color, uncluttered space and fragile … Continue reading
Posted in Superstruct, Uncategorized
Tagged Anges Martin, Eve Aschheim, painting, structure
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Leslie Vance
I first came across Leslie Vance’s paintings at the David Kordansky’s booth at Miami Basel in 2010. Vance’s work was also featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. The paintings have a huge presence and have endless depth but are actually quite … Continue reading
Dubossarsky and Vinogradov
Dubossarsky and Vinogradov are a painter-duo. There is something interesting about approaching what traditionally has been a solitary contemplative practice as a full-time collaboration. Do you divide the tasks? Do you paint in the same time? Regardless, it seems like … Continue reading
Posted in Remasters, Uncategorized
Tagged art history, dubossarsky, painting, reference, vinogradov
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Jonah Criswell
Most of Jonah Criswell’s paintings and drawings are concerned with empty domestic interiors where the mood, color and light of the spaces depicted assume centrality. Physical interiors considered in this way become metaphors of internal states of mind- ambiguous and … Continue reading
Posted in Living Arrangements, Uncategorized
Tagged drawing, Jonah Criswell, Kansas City, painting
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Justin & Christine Gignac – Wants/ Needs
This is how it works. Justin and Christine Gignac paint pictures of the stuff they want. This “stuff” could be anything from a wii game to buffalo wings to a shamwow. They then price the painting for exactly the amount … Continue reading
“Hardly nothing to do without”
Carey Lin paints scenarios composed of everyday studio detritus, found Internet clippings, and vagrant residues from attended artist residencies- to name a few. Lin’s work evokes questions as to the nature of what a painting can be and what, however … Continue reading
Posted in Artist-run Spaces, Artists, Exhibitions, Uncategorized
Tagged CA, Carey Lin, detritus, domestic, everyday, facture, Internet, mundane, nothing, Oakland, painterly, painting, readymade, San Francisco, still-life
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Blue McRight
At first glance Blue McRight’s small paintings on notebook paper appear innocent and even humorous. As I spent more time looking through the work, the “funny” began to be tinted by melancholy if not sinister thoughts. Abandoned or transitory housing, … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Living Arrangements
Tagged domestic, figure, landscape, painting, strange
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Repressed Americana.
Martin Mull’s paintings reference vintage black and white snapshots calling to mind the work of Gerhard Richter and Michael Borremans. The sense of anxiety the paintings carry is owed as much to their visual construction as to their voyeuristic subject … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Exhibitions, Living Arrangements, Uncategorized
Tagged painting, photography
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