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Davood Roostaei

Peter Frank at White Hot says Los Angeles-based Roostaei has devised a method for displaying and hiding both image and meaning, a double-sided, or perhaps double-depthed, approach to presenting things and de-presenting them.

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John Mendelsohn

Mario Naves has words about John’s color wheel paintings at David Richard Gallery in (of course) NYC.

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Green Family Art Foundation presents Black Abstractionists: From Then Till Now, curated by Dexter Wimberly. Readers can find the other artists featured in the show on this blog. His early work is figurative. During the mid-1960s Woodruff and fellow artist Romare Bearden were instrumental in starting the Spiral organization, a collaboration of African-American artists working in New York. Woodruff’s New York works were greatly influenced by abstract expressionism. More

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Lizzie Munn

Lizzie is currently studying at the Royal Academy Schools and is due to graduate in 2024. For the past six years she has made small-scale abstract paintings on metal supports. Jillian Knipe at Instantloveland covers Lizzie in Abstraction in the Now Part IV.

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Aleya Hoerlein

is in NAP #162. Her compostions convey negative and positive spaces that alternate: sometimes the dark color recedes into a void, a nothingness; at other times, the darkness emerges to become the subject and the gradients of colors become the background. The gradients are a gradually dawning or dimming light source, an expansion, and a fleeting moment of time.

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Douglas Welsh

is in New American Paintings #162. He says “I resolve paintings because I want to resolve something within myself. The color and spatial relationships in my paintings can be lyrical, peaceful, disruptive, or tenuous, depending on my state of mind.”

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Jessica Simorte

is in New American Paintings 162. She says “Abstraction is the framework with which I investigate ideas of place dependence and the psychological need to belong somewhere; approaching abstraction as an allegorical language is ideal for connecting the nonconcrete value of belonging within space.”

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Jared Packard

like is in #182 of New American Paintings.

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Erika Jaeggli

is featured in #182 of New American Paintings.

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Joanne Freeman

is one of Artsy’s women to watch.

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Wanda Koop

Artsy says Wanda like Joanne is one of several Women Artists to Watch. These teeter on an edge between abstraction and landscape painting and her newest is site work.

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Rubens Ghenov

Gorky’s Granddaughter covers Ruben’s newest at Morgan Lehman.

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Liana Owad

BmoreArt notes The Essentials: An Exhibition by Liana Owad – her newest is a departure from below.

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Focus

Back to trying to find a word to reflect on as part of an update. Thinking about this one- focus- because the intellectual exercise of drawing my way through Oblique Strategies has already shifted from my last update. After a scattered start I am finding it easier to use the prompts to think my way through my practice of drawing the cubes. I’ve also given the practice some “rules”: 1 drawing per day; pick drawing materials before the prompt; 15 minute time limit; photograph each drawing with the prompt and the music I was listening to while drawing; and journal briefly about the thought process immediately after.

Also, my work got to be in focus for the local scene this last week. I’m so excited by the work I have up at Attic 506, I hope those of you in NC are able to check it out (they are open on second Friday art walks, by appointment and most Saturdays 1-4pm, announced via their IG feed). Time lapse of one of these wall drawings below!

Brett Goodroad

Greene Naftali recently showed Brett’s profoundly visual work by an artist who believes, still, in the power of the eye, and not theories about the eye.

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