Jean-Michel Othoniel

Jean-Michel Othoniel is a contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media. Employing materials such as glass, wax, and sulphur, Othoniel explores ideas of material transformation. “I want to seduce you with their beauty then lead you to other themes,” he has explained of his work. I would agree they are seductive as I’m writing this blog after ogling the work below.
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Fernand Léger

When I first began painting again in 2018 I found myself looking back in time a good bit. I don’t recall spending a lot of time on Léger in undergrad- the new found interest had to do with both his heavy use of black and the way he breaks up space (to me his paintings live in a space between being pre-Greenbergian surfaces and complex, implied spaces).

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