Like Kristy, Brent was one of the artists I discovered at Artfields. About the cyanotype below he wrote that his grandfather was a medic in world war Il. Honeybees carry their dead to the front of the hive as a ritual within their life cycle. These two concepts inform this installation of works on paper. Each red cross image is made up of many dead honeybees, salt and earth. The bees were donated to my project by local beekeepers.
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is one of many artists that I was newly exposed to at Artfields this Spring. Below is Harvest Avocado whose title (according to Kristy’s statement) comes from the two most popular colors from 1970s decor, Harvest Gold and Avocado. These earthy tones and the revival in craft become popular due to the start of the environmental movement. Today, 50 years later, we find ourselves in the midst of a climate crisis that urgently needs to be addressed. The inkle woven patterned bands criss-cross and grow in an organic way. Humans are interwoven with the planet’s ecosystems, intricately connected to the delicate balance of nature.
By merging tradition with contemporary influences and addressing the pressing climate crisis, her art serves as a reflection of our times, prompting awareness and dialogue about the need for action in a world where the environment is in crisis.
#kristybishop
To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection celebrates numerous textile-based works from the Pérez collection – many of which have never been publicly exhibited before – and engages these acquisitions as focal points from which to structure creative dialogues with artworks presented in other mediums. In addition to works by Gene, Helen, Etel and other painters, Magdalena is included as an example of fiber arts.
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Hyperallergic says Tara’s Strategems at Pace is one of 10 Art Shows to see n NYC this June (along with one by Pacita).
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paints on delicate wood constructions and assembled materials such as layered canvases. The mysterious design and the three-dimensionality of his works invite the viewer to spend time with the pieces, looking for marks, chromatic shifts, delicate lines, wax layers, and unexpected folds. Pie Projects (which also shows Sam and Richard) represents him.
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is one of 7 artists that Artsy says stand out at this summer’s Venice Biennale (granted this is a posthumous honor in their case). Samia also gets a nod btw.
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Gwenaël at TUSSLE has words about the past and Christopher’s current choices. After unpacking all the troubling aspects of many of them they eventually point to the smallish wire sculptures which caught my eye and are “by far the most interesting pieces in the show.”
#christopherwool
Saw below at Artfields, about which Gary wrote “Fibonacci Series #2” is part of a larger, multi-part series of dye-sublimation digital prints on aluminum; each abstract image’s frame size is a 3 x 5 ratio, based on the Fibonacci Number Sequence. The digital paintings are made up of layers of scanned 3 x 5 negatives of photographs taken by my father during his years of service in the U.S. Air Force. Afterward, I generated digital paintings of the organic elements within those negatives and composited them together along with various gradient maps and textures I captured on various hikes during my own travels.More
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Alyse is a contemporary abstract artist focused on large scale painting, drawing and frottage, layering expressive color and line over graphite rubbings on raw canvas, wood panel and yupo.
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For EXPO Chicago, Taylor Graham staged an exhibition (which included works by Vasa, or Vasa Mihich) noting that “it is fascinating to explore the commonalities and differences among paintings and sculptures encompassing a range of mid-century into the 21st century abstract styles, including hard edge, stain, Light and Space acrylic sculpture, synchromist inspired, and kinetic sculpture.”
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BmoreArt says Sheila’s newest, Relief at New Door Creative, is one of nine April exhibitions to check out.
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Michael at Two Coats has words about Caroline’s “compelling in-betweenness” – a commentary on her very unique process that involves found materials.
#carolineburton
like Hiba and Hanane is included in Contemporary Muslim At of North Carolina. Pictured below is “The Invitation” (2023). With over 750 in person and online participants from the Triangle Muslim community, Ummah’s first community interactive art project asked for participants to make the intention to be “Invited” to perform the Holy pilgrimages, Hajj and Umrah. This traveling canvas visited several mosques and Muslim spaces, where participants inserted pins around the Ka’bah which represented themselves and their loved ones. While pinning their dot, they did Du’a for Allah to call them on this spiritually intense and challenging journey, the goal of which is cleansing of the heart and purification of the soul. The end result was a canvas symbolic of a community’s collective anticipation, yearning, and hope to be Invited.
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Hyperallergic says (among other, relevant things) Jackson’s “anti-canvases” in the Whitney Biennial is their “most thrilling discovery.”
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Painting After Art is Dead 