(From Iron Gallery in Chicago) With a career defined by experimentation and spatial exploration, Rocío Sáenz transforms her experiences into an artistic proposal that challenges boundaries. Her work has been exhibited across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, earning her accolades such as the Chihuahua Award in Arts and Sciences and the Pedro Coronel Painting Biennial. More
#rociosaenz
Ishi Glinsky investigates the traditional practices of his tribe, the Tohono O’odham Nation, as well as other North American First Nations to create contemporary homages to sacred events and customs. These investigations often consist of a close study of the history and significance of a craft tradition, the committed apprenticeship of its technique, and its assimilation or transformation within Glinsky’s artistic practice.
#ishiglinsky
(From Aninat Galeria) In the crossroad where fiction and history meet, German Tagle has established a place of observation with the intention of catching in his paintings those narrative fragments that allow us to reread the territory where our main cultural icons lie, this is to say, all the output of diverse images taken from paintings, of advertisement, movies, anyplace we can recognize without even being sure we have even really seen it.
#germantagle
Michael Brennan is a big fan of abstraction and of Jane. The title of his essay creates high expectations of course and is still worth the read. Also since I’m trying to draw more connections this year I’ll note that readers who like Jane should check out Osamu and Lorser, and Thomas who was the best living American painter for most of my life.
More (Jane)
#janehaimes
I first blogged about Zio in 2021 by noting A Case Against Reality, a two-part solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Zio. At the time I wrote their work was like Christian– abstractions but not abstraction.
Zio’s recent Six Trees exhibition at the Almine Rech gallery features work that harkens more to Mondrian.
#zioziegler
Getting ready to teach the history of Abstract painting recently made me realize I’d never blogged about Piet, the founder of De Stijl and easily one of the most recognizable early Modernists.
More on How Piet Mondrian’s Abstractions Became a New Way to See the World.
#pietmondrian
Jacob Cartwright says that, true to its title, the group show “Precisely.” at Flinn Gallery (which also includes Nate and Sarah) is chockablock with the type of “precision-crafted paintings” Anoka and David produce.
BTW if you like graphic painting take advantage of my meta content. If you like duos, see also Luftwerk, Sestra Kuya and CHIAOZZA.
#anokafaruqee
#daviddriscoll
Natasha Sweeten recounts her history with the artist, noting that her paintings (seemed) to grow from concentrated, layered planes of light, before diving into an interview. Below is titled “Listening to the Ocean.”
#susannatanger
I really enjoy (as regular readers know) wistfully if also mildly resentfully perusing Two Coat’s NYC gallery guides. This Jan’s features Jemima’s Wild Reveries at Anat Ebgi (as well as plugging new work by Dona and Jacqueline). Yeah, I sort of think of Ross a little bit also.
#jemimamurphy
was Janice‘s brother and also an abstract painter. Tworkov’s early work owes much to Cézanne. Applying paint in large blocks that flaunt the flatness of the picture plane, his paintings cohered into still lifes, landscapes, and narrative scenes.
More and more
#jacktworkov
was a Polish-born American artist whose work, spanning seven decades, is well regarded both in France (where she spent many years) and the United States. Her work lies between figuration and abstraction.
Rebecca at Two Coats has words about a recent, posthumous exhibit of this rarely discussed Modernist.
#janicebiala
Agrade Camiz channels trauma and her youth spent in Rio’s graffiti scene into sensual, urban paintings (she is in Artsy’s Vanguard along with Geoffroy and Sayan).
#agradecamiz
made The Artsy Vanguard (now in its eighth year of highlighting the most promising artists working today).
#geoffroypithon
was influenced by light and architecture. While I had previously made a blog on this West Coast painter, David at Two Coats recently had a revelatory encounter with his oeuvre at Gagosian that is worth the read (and taking some time to revisit his catalog- more and more).
#richarddiebenkorn
Painting After Art is Dead 