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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Joe Fyfe from Two Coats covers Fergus (who like Robert is from Ireland) noting that the piece includes writing about his writing.
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Jonathan Stevenson does a studio visit with this Irish painter and hits the highlights over on Two Coats. Lots of aesthetic resonance to Turner and Elliot Green.
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An African-American sculptor who at age 33 became an expatriate in Paris from America, Harold Cousins worked in a variety of mediums including stone, wood, metal and terra cotta, and in a variety of styles from realism to total abstraction.
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shows with Addis Fine Art which has outposts in London and Ababa (Ethiopia), and is a black-owned gallery (which I know about thanks to Artsy).
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Juxtapoz takes us overseas to look at Tunjia’s newest at White Cube’s Seoul outpost, in which the NYC-based Brit “explores the diasporic body, African subjecthood and autonomy.” The figuration in the work peeks through, similar to earlier work by fellow Brit Cecily.
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is a NYC based multimedia artist specializing in textiles and fiber and working across art and design. She finds inspiration everywhere, but especially in the materials and processes she uses, along with nature, architecture, science, metaphysics, and in the very experience of being alive and engaging with others.
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like Jacob is in Future Proof. He also shows with Wellancora who notes that “Hazlewood uses the structural language of abstraction as a clarifying act of progress in what he considers an unstable world.”
#carlehazelwood
is one of the artists, along with Emma, that Artsy notes have been shaped by the Abstract Expressionism of Helen Frankenthaler.
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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.
#melikekara
was one of Artsy’s 5 Artists on Our Radar for December 2024. Platéus’s broad practice spans painting, collage, sculpture, and photography, though he focuses on abstraction and conceptual questions throughout those media.
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In addition to Julie and Jeffrey, Artsy selected Kim Yun as one of the 10 artists who made the biggest impact on the art world this year. They emerged dramatically on the global art scene this year at the age of 88, after spending more than six decades crafting kaleidoscopic paintings and chainsaw-carved wooden sculptures largely outside the limelight.
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has a solo show opening at Aye Gallery in Beijing later this month—and he lets us know what’s in store, as Artnet asks him 7 questions on creating the conditions for a ‘perfect picture’. Tldr; for this new work Ji leverages the compositional structures of traditional Chinese landscape paintings to tap into psychological, experiential themes and ideas (abstraction is a departure for him).
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Painting After Art is Dead 