Laurie at Two Coats of Paint has words about Diane’s elegant quirkiness on the occasion of her show with James Cohan.
Tag: nontraditionalmaterials
Michael Ambron
Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present No Time, an exhibition of recent work by New York-based artist Michael Ambron in the gallery’s main space. Ambron’s wildly experimental approaches to painting include working with found substrates, collaged fabrics and packaging materials, surprising additives to his handmade paints, and unconventional tools and applications of various media. Michael Ambron not only uses paint to achieve the mark of a color, but to investigate paint’s materiality and broad possibilities.
#michaelambron
Lynne Harlow
Lynne’s most recent (2023) show with Minus Space (home to Michael and Gabriele among others) was Lodestar, a new group of monochromatic objects intended to anchor and orient us in the world. Created from found rocks collected in personally significant locations, these pieces engage our surroundings through a lens of color-based and material-based reduction and a commitment to the power of monochrome.
#lynneharlow
Gail Gregg
In her most recent work, Gail transforms homely, everyday objects that typically go unseen. These repurposed objects and images speak to the possibility of transformation, humor – and the quantity of trash generated in our profligate 21st Century America. Finally, they remind us not to take even the most insignificant things for granted.
#gailgregg
Delcy Morelos
is one of the creatives Artsy staff is captivated by. The Colombian artist’s all-consuming installations transform mud into stunning Minimalist sculptures that fill cavernous rooms, drawing on Andean and Amazonian cosmologies.
#delcymorelos
Carl Andre
It often surprises and pleases me* when I discover I’ve not yet blog about an artist who is clearly canon (*my pleasure derives from the affirmation of my focus on what is happening today). It is with sadness that I have discovered Carl’s omission only open his obit in Artforum. As they so eloquently put it’ “Andre created works whose stark simplicity evoked deeply primal emotions, and whose modest makeup frequently sparked controversy, as detractors carped that his piled, strewn, or carefully laid-out groupings of humble objects could not possibly comprise artworks.”
#carlandre
Jane Cheek
is local artist working occasionally non-figuratively (like Jean Gray her work has narrative components- ). I had the pleasure of getting to know her through Extra Spectral.
Recently she wrote a blog about the story of becoming an installation artist.
#janecheek
Jon Rollins
Jon’s studio is filled with scrap materials from years of artmaking: sketches, notes, tape, table coverings, and unfinished works. They are artifacts of phases both inside and outside of the studio, containing the questions, mistakes, and discoveries of their time. The process is a reevaluation of each scrap, its origin, and the search for a resolution: when a torn drawing or an old piece of tape just fits.”
#jonrollins
Samuel Levi Jones
Samuel Levi Jones was born and raised in Marion, Indiana. Trained as a photographer and multidisciplinary artist, he earned a B.A. in Communication Studies from Taylor University and a B.F.A from Herron School of Art and Design in 2009. He received his MFA in Studio Art from Mills College in 2012.
His work is informed by historical source material and early modes of representation in documentary practice. He explores the framing of power structures and struggles between exclusion and equality by desecrating historical material, then re-imagining new works. Jones investigates issues of manipulation and the rejection of control in a broad sense.
#samuellevijones
Sarah Elise Hall
About her practice Sarah says she has developed a visual lexicon that focuses on the ubiquitous nature of non-biodegradable plastics. Anthropogenic materials such as containers, bins, disposable packaging etc. are embedding themselves into our geologic record as a layer of plastic sediment and hybrid plastiglomerate rock. I envision my extended body of work as processed-based art which further imagines a future geologic narrative that includes fossilized plastic waste.
#sarahelisehall
Jeffrey Bishop
makes paintings in a variety of media and installations (he notes that painting today “has to negotiate its place in a rapidly emerging technological environment” and that nonetheless he affirms “the vitality of the physical even as interiority and the embodied seem diminished in the face of the virtual.”
#jeffreybishop
Mikael Strøbek
Noël Dolla
Noël Dolla is a French artist, and if he is known at all in the United States it is for his participation in Supports/Surfaces, a collective of like-minded artists who in the late 1960s to 70s shared common ideas about the identity and symbolic function of art. Their project emerged as the political and philosophic debates arose from the student and worker protests of May 1968. These debates, which had their foundation in Marxist and post-structuralist thought, emphasized the questioning of all established norms and led to a re-evaluation of how we perceive, represent, and understand the complexities of the self in the world, ushering in the critique of modernism that came to be known as postmodernism.
#noeldolla
Louis Cane
was a French artist that was part of the supports/surfaces movement along with Patrick and others (he still practices today and has moved toward figuration).
#louiscane
Patrick Saytour
I was recently reading the Hyperallergic article Celebrated and Unsung Histories of French Abstraction (which included a mention of Christophe) in which Joe Fyfe also notes Patrick’s practice.
More (interview about a show from 2022)
#patricksaytour
Painting After Art is Dead 