Painting After Art is Dead

Su A Che

A friend turned me on to Su’s IG recently. Read more about her work.

#suache

Bethany Czarnecki

Two Coats says (about Bethany’s newest at Massey Klein), while resolutely abstract from a strictly visual standpoint, Czarnecki’s work metaphorically zones in on human contact and cognitive limitation.

#bethanyczarnecki

Tracy Barwick

Shows with White Cloud and #BMoreArts picks her newest at Hotel Indigo.

#tracybarwick

Scott Albrecht

Juxtapoz has some images up of Scott’s work process for below as well as an interview.

#scottalbrecht

Maarten Rots

Konvergenz (article by Boooom) shows Rots has some formalist tendencies.

#maartenrots

Esphyr Slobdokina

I can see why Peter Plagens was obsessed with the piece below.

#esphyrslobdokina

Leo Amino

#hyperallergic covers a recent retro of this artist who was under appreciated in his time.

#leoamino

Pablo Palezuelo

Was born in and ended his life in Spain having absorbed and interpreted European and American Modernism.

More (I like his work from the latter part of the 20th century best)

#pablopalezuelo

Thomas Downing

Was at the Mint a while back where there is a nice painting by Thomas, who I learned later told Sam that the Washington Color School painting wasn’t about what was being written by Greenberg.

#thomasdowning

Wols

After blogging about Bram I decided I should brush up on Tachisme. Which leads one to (among others) Wols.

(From above- Tachisme “is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism, although there are stylistic differences (American abstract expressionism tended to be more “aggressively raw” than tachisme). It was part of a larger postwar movement known as Art Informel (or Informel), which abandoned geometric abstraction in favour of a more intuitive form of expression, similar to action painting.“)

#wols

Leonardo Drew is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He creates sculptures from natural materials and through processes of oxidation, burning, and decay, Drew transforms these objects into massive sculptures that critique social injustices and the cyclical nature of existence.

I saw one at the Perez in Miami a few years ago and was blown away.

#leonardodrew