Author Archives: jolanta
Marcel Bastiaans
“Nowadays my work can be described as colorful and happy.” Courtesy of the artist. Marcel Bastiaanswww.marcelbastiaans.com I am a Dutch painter. Nowadays my work can be described as colorful and happy. Mostly figurative and often experimental, framed in dynamic abstract-emotional realism, I paint in a traditional way with oil and acrylic paint, often […]
Maria Eugenia Mac – Vicar G
“With textures, scratches, stains and glazes I recreate deep three-dimensional visual effects” Courtesy of the artist. Maria Eugenia Mac – Vicar Gwww.kenamac-vicar.dm.cl I was born of an imaginary Latin American Andean trace searching for the permanence of life in the fiery depths of a habitat that is cosmological, traversing the […]
Francisco Navarro Méndez
“Each work employs the conversations, stories, tales and stories told by people I meet everyday” Courtesy of the artist. Francisco Navarro Méndezp023navarro8@hotmail.com These works comprise a series of 30 portraits that show the social, political and cultural climate of Mexico, especially the state of Michoacan, from a local point of view. Each […]
Phaedra Richter
“Every single character in my work is based on someone I know” Courtesy of the artist. Phaedra Richter (aka fedralita)www.fedralita.net I once noticed something: what people miss most of all is their own true self-their inner feelings, their fantasies, their secret desires, their wild hopes and impossible dreams. So I began creating […]
Priscilla M. Norris
“My art comes from spontaneous, emotive inspiration.” Courtesy of the artist. Priscilla M. Norris www.paintingsilove.com/artist/priscillamnorris My art comes from spontaneous, emotive inspiration. I live to breathe and create in my sacred place. I am mainly self taught. I have also sold and exhibited work. Additionally, I have been nominated for an art award […]
Richard Höglund: Hysterical. Sublime.
Just as how Medusa could only be seen — and thus, slain — with the help of a mirror, Richard Höglund attempts in Beautiful. Sublime. to document the residual traces of the sublime, an aesthetic construct that almost everyone agrees cannot be represented. He has tracked the development of the Sublime from the external — […]
SCOPE: Re-Branded/Re-Art
Many art fairs feel like overwhelming malls, filled with too many people and not enough interesting art. Which is why Scope stands out as being a different kind of experience all together. The SCOPE Art Show is one of the art world’s most monumental fair experiences in that it hosts special programming that is outside […]
CONTACT Faces Economic Decline in Photography Head On
Kodak’s recent news was a reminder of the changes and difficult times that we face in the photographic community. Kodak, after 132 years of innovation and market dominance, fell and filed for bankruptcy protection. Kodak, an American institution and household name, was unable to change quickly enough and monetize key digital assets. Despite having inventing […]
Documentary, Painting and Beyond
Painting, and featured historical interviews with the greats of past generations: Newman, De Kooning, Motherwell, Noland, Stella, Olitski, Poons, Rauschenberg, Johns and Warhol. De Antonio was making a film as an outsider—and it shows—however, the documentary’s unique insight into the featured artists’ work and lives caused it to become a film that just about anyone […]
30 Artists To Watch in 2012: Part II
Sonic boom, are the two words used to describe Matt Jones paintings and Guile’s signature move. For Jones, along with other painters in this post, space is a central concern. These artists are cutting it up, refracting it, exploding it or filling it to the brim – proving that painting can exist and […]
