is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Through material explorations with paper, fabric, plastic, oil pastels, and paint, Almeida investigates the tension between functionality and abstraction, interior and exterior, and the individual and the environment. Artsy notes she (like Suzanne and Teresa) is having a good moment.
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underlying fascination with the undefinable nature of existence has spurred a lifelong exploration of what they call the “dark source.”
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Sweet shades of Carlos Cruz Diaz these are some sublime paintings. Suzanne shows with White Cube.
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work explores the intersection of pattern and symbol in Surinamese Maroon culture, the larger African Diaspora, and twentieth-century modernism. He was recently in Carried Over as part of the International Studio & Curatorial Program.
#remyjungerman
Back in May, Debra at Hyperallergic drew our attention to the unexpected beauty of detritus. Specifically, how, through his art, Yuji brings reverence and discipline to the job of living, and acknowledges each human’s durational condition. They are abstract in the sense that compositional decisions are driven by formalist prerogative (they are clearly recognizable materials also).
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born in Chicago to a Lebanese father and American mother, John studied architecture at Washington University, St. Louis (BA 1990) and fine art at Bard College, New York (MFA 2005). Taught at School of Visual Arts (2008-11) and as visiting professor at Cornell University (2010-11). Manifold group exhibitions, mostly in U.S.A. (predominantly New York and California), but also in Lebanon and Canada. Prolific lecturer/panel member for Lebanese and Middle Eastern art. Based in Brooklyn, New York.Also shows with Walter Maciel.
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Over at Burnaway Merin McDivitt reviews Asheville’s Blue Spiral 1 summer group exhibition, where artists adopt an irreverent approach to surfaces. The show includes Caroline among others.
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#carolinecollom
like Jean Alexander is a Hopper Prize finalist. Her practice serves as a reclamation of the value of textiles and embroidery in fine art.
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is a recent Hopper Prize recipient. She extracts the shapes in her compositions from observational sketches of everyday, domestic moments.
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(Galerie Lelong says) Juan Uslé is widely recognized for vivid paintings and works on paper that engage the viewer through entrancing rhythmic patterns that exist in a dual state of being: embracing repetition while practicing singularity. Sourcing inspiration between memories lived and dreamt, these patterns can be evocative of the vibrations and movement of bustling New York City, where he lives and works for part of the year; echo the fluidity of bodies of water and unique sequences found in nature; or serve as a transcript of real time through a filmstrip-like recording of the artist’s heartbeat.
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paintings are driven by process and rooted in the history of abstraction. He combines gestural brushstrokes, drips, and stains with graphic elements like grids and patterns, using highly saturated pigments on large canvases and paper.
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works in a space where intuition overrides control, embracing coincidence to reveal new possibilities through abstract collages, drawings, sculptures, and installations. She shows with 68 Prince Gallery.
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One of India’s most influential modernists, Vasudeo S. Gaitonde was at the forefront of the abstract painting movement in his native country; his work has drawn international acclaim since his death in 2001. Gaitonde was a member of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, which pushed against folk art traditions. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1954 and 1962.
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