Tom Bill

Jonathan at Two Coats says Tom, who for decades was primarily a large-scale sculptor, has recently translated that vocation into riveting compact-yet-monumental wall-mounted pieces and that their highly wrought finishes and elliptical narratives invest them with an improbably kinetic presence and stern gravitas that leave the viewer both sobered and assured.
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Numbers

9- days I spent in quarantine since my last update post : (

3- paintings I finished since the last time I made an update post : )

6- the opportunities y’all have remaining to see my piece in Strictly Voluntary at LUMP Gallery in Raleigh (below is my piece and one to the left by Jerstin Crosby). I’ll be gallery sitting 10/7 so come by and say hello if you’re a local!

Here’s a big one- 1,140 (the number of artists catalogued on this site).

Here’s a really big one- $20,000. It’s the amount of money I made trading bitcoins. Not… so we’ll end with a smaller one- 3 (the number of attempts I’ve made to get Instagram to unlock my account which has clearly been hacked).

Ilma Savar

Artsy says Ilma is one of 10 women artists shattering expectations feminist art. She lives in the remote Anahobehi village (Gora) in Ömie territory, a five-day trek up the volcanic slopes of Mount Lamington, Papua New Guinea. It was there that London-based gallerist Rebecca Hossack first met the Indigenous artist and encountered her textile paintings on nioge—or fine-grained, beaten cloth made from the inner bark of mulberry or fig trees—that Savari stitches additional details on top of with a superfine bat wing bone.

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Beverly Buchanan

Dead Lecturer / distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980 focuses on works by Asian American and African American artists whose approaches to abstraction provided alternatives to prevailing vocabularies for representation and resistance during the social movements of the 1960s and 70s, and for whom the parameters of visibility continue to remain a problem for thought today. Beverly is one of the selected creatives (also including Howardena and Al). Her work mined a strong motif for decades and slowly became more abstracted although never was true “abstraction.” Readers of who like below should also explore Jennifer and Nicky.

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Mary Anne Keel Jenkins

Mary Anne Keel Jenkins (1929-2017) is considered to be one of North Carolina’s most significant female painters. In addition to private collections, her work can be found in the permanent collections of many museums. Gallery C in Raleigh represents her estate.
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Janet Sobel

Here’s the myth: alcoholic brooding genius Jackson Pollock assesses a virgin canvas as it lays prone on the ground. Then he flings, hurls, splashes, and drips paint all over it, creating a vigorous new language of art – the drip technique. Life Magazine swooned, “Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” The real story? Pollack’s first drip painting, Full Fathom Five, was completed in 1947. Four years earlier a Ukrainian housewife with no formal art training stunned the art world with her all-over drip paintings and primitivist surreal dreamscapes. Her name was Janet Sobel and her art career spanned just three years from 1943 to 1946.

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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gaborone

Mirdidingkingathi’s paintings have a proprioceptive pull. Their gulfs of color are fed by the late artist’s sweeping ken of the sandbars, salt pans, and billabongs of her native Bentinck Island, off Queensland’s northwestern coast.

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Erik Barthels

Erik is a contemporary abstract landscape painter who lives in New Orleans, LA.; he shows with Serena & Lily. Of his work, he says “working primarily with squeegees and trowels, I make quickly rendered graphic paintings on paper.  I then collage them, cutting and refiguring to create new, unexpected compositions. The works exist in a duality, combining their hard edged geometry and a fuzzy, weathered quality that retains their handmade nature.
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Whanki Jim

was a painter and pioneering abstract artist of Korea, born in the village of Eupdong-ri on the island of Kijwa, of Anjwa-myeon, Sinan County, South Jeolla Province in Korea under Japanese rule. He belongs to the first generation of Korean Abstract artists, mixing oriental concepts and ideals with abstraction. With refined and moderated formative expression based on Korean Lyricism, he created his characteristic art world. His artworks largely dealt with diverse hues and patterns.

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