Kazuo Shiraga (白髪 一雄, Shiraga Kazuo, August 12, 1924 – April 8, 2008) was a Japanese abstract painter and the first-generation member of the postwar artists collective Gutai Art Association (Gutai). As a Gutai member, he was a prolific, inventive, and pioneering experimentalist who tackled a range of media: in addition to painting, he worked in performance art, three-dimensional object making, conceptual art, and installations. Sam Francis was influenced by this group of artists.
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BMore Arts gives props to Material Language at C. Grimaldis Gallery which features Ara and Elena Kovylyaeva.
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Aicon New York recently presented Raza + America, an exhibition of paintings by the celebrated Indian modernist Sayed Haider Raza exploring the transformation of his style, both in subject and medium, set in motion by his 1962 visit to the United States.
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Laurie at at Two Coats of Paint has words about Matthew Marks recent exhibition featuring (the late) Miyoko.
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Taro Suzuki’s artistic energy emerged in multiple disciplines over the course of his development. While he was lead singer for the No Wave band “Youthinasia,” he gained notoriety for his light installations. Harnessing the power of questions and contrasts in traditional optics, he has used painting and sculpture to further pursue his interest in visual dissonance. A two time Pollack-Krasner Grant recipient, Taro Suzuki works have been exhibited at MoMA, NY and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
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Fang’s practice began with a self-detachment from the external environment while maintaining a rebellious posture of exile. Throughout her upbringing, she has been constantly experiencing a lack of belonging and displacement reflected by her surroundings. For her, desire, emotions, and memory are not concepts, but unsteady and tangible experiences. As an Asian woman living in the context of cosmopolitanism, she attempts to explore her own vulnerability in the sense of self-estrangement in her practice.
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Thriving in the space between abstraction and figuration, Li Hei Di’s latest paintings explore the depths of repressed human emotions and sexual desires.
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Maryam Eivazi lives and works in Milan, Italy. Graduating from Tehran’s Faculty of Art and Architecture University in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in painting and continuing her education in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage in 2012 at the same university, she went to the Academy of Fine Arts (Bologna, Italy) in 2014 to obtain her Master’s in Visual Arts.
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Alia Ahmad is a 24-year-old Saudi Arabian painter (b.1996). Having graduated in 2018 from Kings College London with a BA in Digital Culture, she started to focus on research in Fine Art. Recently graduated with a Masters from the Royal College of Art, Alia concentrates on painting but uses a range of media to narrate the way that memory, place and landscape can converge within a written and visual practice.
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Tussle magazine has words about Yoon’s new work at the New York Hall of Science in Queens.
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Painting After Art is Dead 