Category: artists

Judy Pfaff

was surprised to see when blogging about Helen that I hadn’t yet touched on Judy’s work (she is also in Destination Earth). There’s often recognizable… stuff in Judy’s work (here is Hyperallergic on Real and Imaginary from last Fall). Sort of like Liz and Jessica. Readers who like this sort of maximalism will also like Sarah’s work.

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Vasudeo S. Gaitonde

One of India’s most influential modernists, Vasudeo S. Gaitonde was at the forefront of the abstract painting movement in his native country; his work has drawn international acclaim since his death in 2001. Gaitonde was a member of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, which pushed against folk art traditions. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1954 and 1962.

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Francisco Masó

Luis De Jesus just presented Francisco Masó: Documentary Abstraction, the Cuban conceptual artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition brings together new works from Masó’s ongoing series Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces. The series establishes a catalog and archive of acrylic on canvas paintings which serves as an abstract geometric guide for identifying the forces of power within a state control apparatus while simultaneously generating discourse on the militarization of Cuban civil society.
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Angelo Savelli

ML Fine Art recently presented (posthumously) ‘Basically White‘ which was the first UK exhibition of works by Angelo Savelli. The exhibition focused on Savelli’s contribution to European and American modern art stretching a connection to other of his contemporaries. Eleven seminal paintings were shown alongside pieces by contemporaries such as Robert Ryman.

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Chantal Khoury

(According to Nicodim gallery) In her solo exhibition, Stay Longer, Chantal Khoury’s paintings ruminate on images of kitchen tables, dining rooms, and coffee tables, all loosely set around the act of hosting others.

Seems like abstractions (as distinct from abstraction) are having a good moment (Philip, Matthew and Jacqueline have all gotten deserved attention of late).

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Jeanette Fintz

Jeanette Fintz’s paintings emerge from the collision and dissection of overlapping grid systems, using a choreographic process to intuitively edit and transform geometric fragments into expressive, unstable constructs. Informed by plein air landscape painting and Islamic geometric pattern, the work evokes nature, memory, and time through the tactile interplay of gesture and structure. She is showing at 68 Prince Street Gallery.
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