Shawn Smith
Posted by Fabio 18 May 2011
Shawn Smith’s work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, he is interested in how we experience nature through technology. “When we see images of nature on TV or on a computer screen, we feel that we are seeing nature but we are really only seeing patterns of pixilated light. read more
Michael De Brito
Posted by Fabio 17 May 2011
In a world awash with conceptual art and abstraction, Michael De Brito’s paintings stand out as a modern take on the bravura of figurative masters of the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries. He esteems tradition as a guiding force that gives life and meaning to contemporary work.
Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want
Posted by Fabio 16 May 2011
This summer the Hayward Gallery presents TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT, the first major survey in London of the work of one of the UK’s most renowned and celebrated artists. Occupying both floors and two outdoor sculpture terraces, the exhibition features key works from all periods of the artist’s career including seldom-seen early works and more recent large-scale installations as well as a new series of outdoor sculptures created especially for the Hayward. read more
Victor Castillo
Posted by Fabio 15 May 2011
Victor Castillo is a Chilean painter currently residing in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Santiago in 1973, the year of Chile’s military coup. He began drawing obsessively at the age of five, inspired by the animations he saw on television, science fiction movies, and the illustrations on his family’s record covers such as Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”. read more
Eugene Andolsek
Posted by Fabio 15 May 2011
For fifty years Eugene Andolsek had a secret life creating drawings with vibrant colors and linear complexity in his free time. Working at his kitchen table on graph paper with compass and straight edge he laid out black lines and geometries filling in spaces with colored inks mixed with eye droppers to achieve dazzling compositions. read more
Desiree Dolron
Posted by Fabio 15 May 2011
Desire Dolron’s aesthetic is intricately linked to the Flemish school of primitive portrait painters such as Petrus Christus, Rogier van der Weyden and the interior Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi. Dolron does not try to emulate their work but rather adapts the aesthetic to her 21st century vision, which is as complex in construction as the paintings themselves.
www.desireedolron.com
Travess Smalley
Posted by Fabio 14 May 2011
Artist Travess Smalley holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and is based in New York.
Steve Galloway
Posted by Fabio 13 May 2011
Set somewhere on the outskirts of our recognizable galaxy, the universe of painter Steve Galloway is scattered over numberless chunks of swampland where grotesque events transpire in bizarre, bucolic tropics that William Henry Hudson might have imagined in a paranoid, material dream.
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