Saw below during a recent trip to the High Museum in Atlanta. Gabriel is interested in abstraction as a mode of painting that offers an open-ended forum for posing questions about the nature of his everyday experience as a Black artist. For Mills, abstraction represents a rebellious way of approaching marginalized and countercultural political ideologies through unencumbered expressivity.
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was recently featured on Conversations with Artists where she spoke about her desire to bring together disparate strands so they may, for an instance, exist in the same circumscribed moment (formal and emotive; painting and constructing; illusion and physical object).
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With 40 years of exhibition history, Anthony (Tony) Daley is a highly decorated abstract artist holding works in Tate Collections, Saatchi &
National Portrait Gallery.
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Michael at Hyperallergic reminds us Lawrence showed in nine Whitney biennials, and was a lover to Beauford Delaney, and his legacy is yet to be fully explored.
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Saw below at Artfields. Margaret’s textile background was a significant driver that fed her interest in regenerative design-thinking systems, now called the circular economy; influencing her eventual pursuit of a Masters in Sustainability from Wake Forest University in 2016. She hopes to find a visual intersection for expressing her passion for painting and environmental concerns.
#margaretfleemanstudio
David at Two Coats of Paint says Alessandro’s twelve large new paintings, now on view at Amanita Gallery are strikingly original and richly allusive.
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Anna at Two Coats of Paint says Ian’s immortal flub at New Collectors blurs the lines “between art, nature, and miracle, asking what painting’s vocation is at a moment when anything can be art.”
#ianmyers
Pie Projects has recently programmed Deep Nature which includes Sam Scott’s iconic masterpiece quartet entitled The Four Tides, which was created in 1996 during his artist-in-residence at Texas A&M in Corpus Christi.
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Vittorio Colaizzi at Two Coats of Paint lays out a case that Joan Thorne is a painter and artist.
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Eddie Martinez’s frenetic, bold, kaleidoscopic paintings draw from art historical traditions such as action painting, Neo-Expressionism, and the CoBrA movement. Martinez filters tenets from his aesthetic predecessors through coarse brushwork, a wide variety of media, and abstract forms and rhythms
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Painting After Art is Dead 