Michael Patrick O’Brien “Familiar Address” at University of New Orleans
Michael Patrick O’Brien “Familiar Address” at University of New Orleans In his photographs of family members and familial spaces, O’Brien translates the family’s lineage and spaces as sites of both repetition and evolution. Genetics are inherited, body postures are echoed, the formality of interiors is mimicked, values are passed down, death is present, children appear,…
Read MoreTime Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography at Baltimore Museum of Art
“Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography” exhibition has more than 40 modern and contemporary photographs by artists mostly born in China, Japan, South Korea, or Vietnam who delve into various concepts of time. Their images could be focused on a time of day, a past legend or history, or an imagined future. “Time Frames showcases…
Read MoreInteract Gallery “Pop!” Exhibition in Saint Paul, Mn
Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts presents POP!, an exhibition featuring exuberant new work by seven artists challenging perceptions of disability. With a shared interest in popular culture, the artists offer imaginative ways of seeing the everyday (including from underwater and outer space!). These artists explore the meaning of “pop” from different vantage points.In…
Read MoreArt To Live With for students at the University of Chicago
The Smart Museum provides an art loan program, exclusively for University of Chicago students so they can become acquainted with and appreciate art. Each fall, students living in the University of Chicago’s residence halls have the unique opportunity to borrow original works of art to live with in their dorm rooms. Students are able to…
Read MoreDavid Hornung “Intimate Visions” at Delaware Art Museum
I use my memory and imagination to invent pictures. The subjects I like to paint are ordinary—walls, ladders, rocks, trees, simple buildings, garden tools, ropes, bones, rickety tables. I strip subject matter of extraneous detail so that it appears emblematic rather than naturalistic. This also makes it possible to intermingle pictorial elements with abstract and…
Read MoreGregory Euclide at Hasimoto Contemporary in San Francisco
The depiction of land has often been used as a means of celebrating or critiquing culture. The use of pastoral views, banal architecture and everyday trash problematize the traditional definitions of a natural landscape. Through the process of transforming and miniaturizing materials found in the land, objects, in their new context, are no longer discernible…
Read MoreMichael Rich at Old Spouter Gallery in Nantucket
The painter and printmaker, Michael Rich has for decades, explored the landscapes of his experience in intensely colored, gestural abstractions; lively, inventive drawings and unique monoprints. In large-scale, works in oil, Rich trowels, scrapes and brushes together marks of color to suggest deep and illuminated spaces reminiscent of the sky and sea of his island…
Read MoreAndrea Pramuk at Georgetown Art Center
Texas painter, Andrea Pramuk, creates organic, drawing-based abstractions. Her pictures may seem familiar at first glance, but on closer inspection, they are not things or places that exist, but rather lyrical subjects whose dialogue originates out of line, color and light. She looks to ephemeral subject matter that is constant throughout time, reminiscent of stone,…
Read MoreDavid Ridgway at WaterWorks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington
David Ridgway’s oil painted landscapes reflect a joy, love and understanding for his environment. Whether painting plein aire or in his studio, his images of the hills, valleys, boats, and houses of the San Juan’s and Skagit counties are an appreciative expression of the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. David pares the landscape down to interlocking…
Read MoreR. J. Kern at Klompching Gallery in NYC
R. J. Kern’s exhibition at KLOMPCHING GALLERY is the artist’s first solo show in New York, bringing together a selection of color photographs from his three critically-acclaimed projects: The Unchosen Ones, Out To Pasture and Divine Animals: The Bovidae. “Mr. Hofsós, Skagafjardarsysla, Iceland,” 23.5 x 30 inches, archival pigment print, Ed 7 + 1AP, 2014 © R. J.…
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