nontraditionalmaterials – Page 5 – Painting After Art is Dead

Zilia Sánchez

Karla Méndez reviews “Zilia Sánchez: Topologías/Topologies” at the ICA Miami—a survey show featuring Sánchez’s work from 1950-1996 – for Burnaway.

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Hilary Harnischfeger

shows with Rachel Uffner.

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Ethan Primason

Hyperallergic notes that amid a rise in waste dumping, artist Ethan Primason gives discarded items new lives, working intuitively until he finds their new form.
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Hope Wang

is a recent Hopper Prize winner.

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Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez

Maria (who shows with David Castillo) has developed an index of color relations to determine specific emotions, memories and spirituality. The colors can be autonomous or have a new meaning altogether when encountering other colors and the forms they inhabit. The artist’s work is about the history of her body (a Cuban born body) in a permanent state of displacement and exile. Her paintings try to express the state in which this happens. They are about the inability to belong in any defined structure.

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Patrizia Ferreira

is currently showing Precarious Habitats at Meredith University’s Weems Gallery. Ferreira’s work incorporates thread, yarn, found, and heirloom fabrics, as well as a variety of repurposed materials, such as plastics, to create sculptural embroidered paintings.

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Leslie Wayne

is part of an all star cast (Jack, El, Jessica and Sanford to name a few) assembled for Material World at Marianne Boesky Gallery.

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Scott Vander Veen

whose work investigates the ways in which material is transmitted, utilized, and preserved, is one one of many artists included in Painting Deconstructed (some of whom you’ve read about here- Rachel, Mark and Yevgeniya to name a few) at Ortega y Gasset.

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Lindsay Packer

Generative relationships between luminous color and ephemeral form propel Lindsay Packer’s site-responsive work in performance, installation, film and video, photography and streaming media. She plays with the call and response of color and light, form and site, engaging an analog/digital continuum of shifting chroma and temporary geometries in which color and form are inseparable. She’s included in Bluets and Blue along with Erika and others.

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Clare Hu

is one of the artists included in Intersectional Voices, the current exhibit at Greenville Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Clare is a weaver and artist whose practice examines personal and familial experience within the broader framework of myths and narratives that make up the American South.

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Dan Dowd

Mark at Two Coats of Paint has words about Dan’s newest at Magenta Plains and the folds of memory, for example how “clothing in particular echoes the shapes of our bodies; touches them; connotes gender, time, and economic status; and absorbs everything from our scent to our DNA.”

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Cristina Victor

Final post about 2024 Artfields artists*.

Cristina works with remnants of previous textile projects as well as materials donated by local makers in Charleston, and expands her study of the cane weaving pattern into a large-scale installation. Her relationship to cane weaving is one of nostalgia rooted in her memory of my elders, their homes and communing spaces.

*see also Brent, Kristy, Kai, Natalie, Ian, Amberly, Margaret and Emiko

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Amberly Hui Hood

I know, I *did* see a lot of work new to me at Artfields!

Amber says that her work focuses on paintings and alternative media practices that explore the idea of living with no shame. Below also calls on her Korean heritage and the traditional Korean quilt-making of “pojagi.”

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Natalie Dunham

Natalie Dunham is a process-based artist who creates
3-dimensional material studies primarily composed of basic geometric shapes and lines. Her practice employs a strategy of overlapping, accumulating, and juxtaposing simple materials to produce solid and complex forms.
Her hope is to challenge viewers to pause and appreciate the transformative powers of the creative process and to call attention to the essentially ordinary origins of even the most extraordinary works of art. I saw below at Artfields.

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Kai Griffin

like Brent was new to me when I exhibited at Artfields (more, more and more).

His works (he says) are direct results of investigations into theoretical studies, constructs, and ideas. He turns classical into contemporary through modern digitized techniques, for example, the 600 years old technique of one-point linear perspective or the centuries old geometric symbol of the mandala flipped on their heads by incorporating laser cut cast acrylic. In bridging the gap between analog (old) and digital (new), he explores binary couplings and the paradigmatic relations between the two elements: light and shadow, translucency and opacity, intensity and apathy.

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