Michael Bentley “New Works on Paper” at Gruen Galleries
“Walking out to the shore every morning and looking out over the sea, I am still in awe of its beauty” — Michael Bentley With these new works, Bentley continues to explore abstract seascapes, with his unconventional use of gouache. Working with the medium’s brilliance and range of opacities and the intricate use of white…
Read MoreHeidi Hogden: Uncertain Terrain
Heidi Hogden: Uncertain Terrain consists of graphite drawings and paper sculptures created by Hogden while she was the Artist-in-Resident at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Through these works, Hogden explores the physical frailty of the natural world and the relationship between place and identity on a symbolic level. This work represents moments of transformation;…
Read MoreRevoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test at Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago commemorates the centenary of the Russian Revolution with Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test, an exploration of early Soviet art and its audiences. It is the largest such exhibition in the United States in more than 25 years. Vladimir Stenberg and Georgii Stenberg. “The Mirror of Soviet Society,” cover for Red Field, no. 19 (May…
Read MoreScott Olson and Jerry Birchfield exhibited by Cleveland Museum of Art at Transformer Station
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents two solo exhibitions featuring new works by Northeast Ohio artists Scott Olson and Jerry Birchfield. This is each artist’s first institutional solo exhibition, and will be on exhibit at Transformer Station September 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017. Jerry Birchfield The Earth Moves Under My Feet B.12, 2015. Jerry Birchfield…
Read MoreAlice Leora Briggs at LHUCA Center for the Arts
Alice Leora Briggs is currently collaborating with Juárez journalist Julián Cardona to create an unhinged graphic glossary of the language of violence in Ciudad Juárez. She received her MA and MFA from University of Iowa and has been awarded fellowships from the Utah Arts Council, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and served…
Read MoreChristine Ritchie at Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
Christine A. Ritchie (MFA Painting & Printmaking, Pratt Institute, NYC ) lived & worked in NYC for 23 years & currently lives & maintains a studio in the Detroit area. She has worked as an Adjunct Faculty member for Macomb Community College & Kendall College of Art, teaching drawing & foundation courses as well as…
Read MoreHerb Edwards at Falmouth Art Center
Herb Edwards was born in Brownsville, PA in 1940. He received his BFA from The University of New Mexico in 1963 and his MFA from Pratt Institute in 1970. Herb was a professor of fine arts for over twenty years. Herb and his family now live on Cape Cod where he paints in the Spring…
Read MoreRachel Doniger – Cut Paper Reliefs
Rachel Doniger’s paper reliefs investigate the graphic potential of paper. A simple process of cutting and folding thousands of similar shapes yields a field defined by moments of intensity and calm. As the viewer’s glance moves from one shape to the next, they see not only a crescendo from low to high, but also the…
Read MoreEugene Richards: The Run-On of Time at George Eastman Museum
For more than forty years, photographer Eugene Richards has explored complicated subjects such as racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. Until now, his work has been known primarily through international news and media outlets, for which he created images on…
Read MoreAmy Rockett-Todd “MANUS : ab.sum”
The exhibition “MANUS : ab.sum” is rendered using the 19th Century photographic process known as Wet Plate Collodion. The work deals with hand-made attributes of creating photographic images of our environment … the building up, the habitation, and the abandonment of it … and of nature reclaiming its place. Drawing from a history of past…
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