symbolistart – Painting After Art is Dead

Georgiana Houghton

For those fascinated with Hilma– Georgiana (1814-1884) developed skills as a medium after attending her first séance in 1859 and achieved her first spirit drawings in 1861.
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Ali Banisadr

Ali Banisadr is a contemporary artist who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in Tehran, Iran in 1976.

#alibanisadr

Janaina Tschäpe

“Between the Sky and the Water” is a mid-career retrospective of Janaina Tschäpe (b. Munich, Germany 1973). Tschäpe’s wide-ranging oeuvre is visually connected by a lexicon of forms that array across a variety of media—painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, photography, video, and performance.

#janainatschäpe

Eve Saint Jean

Boom puts their Artist Spotlight on Eve.

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Nanette Carter

Nanette coined the term “scapologist” to describe her practice of creating sea, sky, and landscapes in which she explores political themes and the drama of human nature. These fictional, natural worlds provide the artist with a space to visually reflect on the coexistence of injustice and benevolence in contemporary society.

#nanettecarter

Kelsey Brookes

Popular Psychedelic Molecules, Rendered With Atomic Precision, Using Hippie Tapestries is the best show title so far this year, people.
#kelseybrookes

Ross Bleckner

Repetitious Visitation is from 1987- Ross was one of the painters that managed to keep the art world’s attention during an era when painting was largely out of favor.

#rossbleckner

Magnolia Laurie

BmoreArt notes Magnolia’s newest abstractions of open spaces and fences.

#magnolialaurie

Biren De

is represented in South Asian Art which explores Modernism iterations from this region (similar to Taking Shape).

#birende

Thornton Dial

Hyperallergic says we should pay attention to the rich, vibrant worlds Thornton created during his time with us (spoiler- not all of them are abstracted).

#thorntondial

Can’t mention Kazimir and not probably the best known Russian abstractionist. The impact of Concerning the Spiritual in Art has been profound, for good or ill, in how the idea of Art changed in the 20th Century.

#wassilykandinsky

Elena del Rivero

is an Anonymous Was A Woman grant winner (along with Virginia)
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Tariku Shiferaw

gets Artsy’s attention.

#tarikushiferaw

Gerhard Richter

Reading about Tamina made me think about other artists that have exercised figurative and abstract modalities simultaneously (in Gerhard’s case with high visibility).

#gerhardrichter

Tracey Emin

Xavier Hufkens at Artsy has words about Tracey’s newest. Known for more literal work, these newest are abstractions if not abstraction (“…rather than painting literal depictions of precise events, Emin captures the emotions they awaken”).

#traceyemin

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