A dedicated abstractionist and former art dealer, Peter Bradley reveals the myriad possibilities of acrylic paint, by pouring layers of color onto his canvases.
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Peter Bradley
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Ilana Savdie
was raised between Barranquilla, Colombia and Miami, FL. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, where she makes some beautiful paintings.
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Rebecca Pempek
is a recent MFA recipient from UNC. Her most recent painting and printmaking work utilizes her pelvic MRI scans to interrogate the history and mythologization of female pain. By layering and abstracting 17th-century reproductive anatomical illustrations with fauna imagery and gestural mark-making, she reclaims agency over the narratives of chronic pain.
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Catherine Goodman
For London-based artist Catherine Goodman CBE, drawing and painting are meditative acts, whether performed in the silence of her studio or the landscapes that call her back time and again. She infuses her practice with inspiration gleaned from poetry, film, travel, and memory. Goodman and Ann C. Collins at Brooklyn rail met over Zoom to talk about Silent Music, Goodman’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth that presents large-scale abstract paintings that pulse with her expressive brushwork and vivacious use of color.
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Dona Nelson
The two-sided paintings Dona has been making since 2003, are very different on the back of the painting than the front, a surface that looks, on first glance, extremely gestural, but never could have been made directly, because all the lines and marks appear simultaneously.
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Julia Kunan
Sheila Pepe says Kunin’s most recent work has a clear affinity with the specific craft traditions of the Austro-Hungarian regions, a second home. Influenced strongly by the aesthetics of Middle Europe, at first
glance Kunin’s ceramics seem in tune with the syncopated, metallic
compositions of Gustav Klimt. However, all kinds of painterly effects.
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Jessica Rankin
creates expansive maps of landscapes dotted with codes, signs, and symbols that refer to processes of memory and intuition.
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Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Throughout paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and site-specific mural and sound installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan (b. 1994; London, UK) endeavors to build spaces of queer community, abundance, and joy. Yearwood-Dan’s singular visual language draws on a diverse range of influences, including Blackness, queerness, femininity, healing rituals, and carnival culture.
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Susan Swartz
Robert Curcio at WhiteHot has words about Susan’s most recent at Georges Bergès Gallery (which aren’t abstraction per se).
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A’Driane Nieves
A visual artist and writer, A’Driane Nieves is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a self-taught painter. At the urging of her therapist, she began painting as a form of art therapy in 2011 during her recovery from postpartum depression and following her later diagnosis of bipolar disorder. This initial experimentation led to her using Abstract Expressionist painting styles as a way to overcome the impacts of childhood abuse, specifically emotional suppression. Influenced by Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Bernice Bing, and early Black abstract painters ranging from Alma Thomas to Mary Lovelace O’Neal.
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Martha Diamond
We all know I revere John Yau. In his most recent for Hyperallergic he says (posthumously) that Diamond’s attention to the brush’s capacity to be simultaneously expressive and responsive is visible throughout her strongest paintings.
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Emily Noelle Lambert
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Melike Kara
like Young gets a nod from Two Coats for was un bleit at Bortolami in their recent exhibition guide. Materially symphonic, Kara employs painting, installation, and photography to map heritage, origin, and belonging.
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Young Do Jeong
gets a nod from Two Coats of Paint for below (which is in Nobody’s Star at Chart) in their January NYC gallery guide.
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Painting After Art is Dead 