The Portfolio of Sculptor and Installation Artist Takis
Signal lumineux, vis d’Archimède
Takis is a Greek sculptor and installation artist, known for three-dimensional works that explore the intersection between science and art. Throughout his long career, the artist has explored the influence of not only physical, visible forms on a space, but also of invisible energies and forces passing between and through objects.
Head in Space, bronze
I’m always fascinated to see an artist…
The Ceramic Art Portfolio of Pippin Drysdale
EversongPippin Drysdale is a ceramic artist based in Australia. In her practice, the artist merges the visual languages of traditional ceramic craftsmanship and that of landscape painting, creating arrangements of sculptural vessels and objects that evoke space even while occupying it.
Sulphur SpringsI love Drysdale’s use of highly colourful paints and glazes. Used on relatively simple, smooth three dimensional forms, the…
The Puzzle Art Portfolio of Tim Klein
King of the Road, constructed from two puzzles published in the 1970s
Tim Klein works in the unusual medium of machine-cut jigsaw puzzles, creating surreal works that are half collage, half assemblage, and always with an undertone of off-kilter humour. The artist’s works combine pieces from two or more separate puzzles, leading to unexpected and bizarre imagery.
White Elephant (Present and Future), constructured from two puzzles…
The Art Portfolio of Ashley Longshore
Audrey With Ring Pop, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, heavy resin
Ashley Longshore is a painter and mixed media artist inspired by contemporary pop culture. The artist’s works take a playful, sometimes vulgar, often feminine-oriented approach to the concerns of young people navigating today’s culture.
Bottle Fed with Lavender Floral Background, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, heavy resin
I like the way that Longshore’s…
The Art Portfolio of Illustrator Rick Guidice
UntitledIllustrator Rick Guidice specializes in creating visual artwork of landscapes and plein air subject matter, as well as designs for materials released by NASA. The artist’s illustrations, spanning several decades, are created using watercolours and oil paints.
Untitled
I adore Guidice’s NASA illustrations -- created mostly in the 1960s through 1980s, these images hail from a time when space exploration had an almost…
The Environmental Art Portfolio of Mary Jane Jessen
Upstream III, collage and oil paint on canvas
Mary Jane Jessen is an environmental artist based in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. In her artistic practice, Jessen addresses environmental concerns by painting and drawing the wildlife and plants in her surrounding environment, as well as in other locales.
Sailfin Sculpin, oil paint on canvas
I enjoy the way that Jessen practices realism in her artworks. The artist’s paintings…
The Art Portfolio of Luis Romero
Untitled, acrylic on paperLuis Romero is Mexican-born artist who currently lives and works in Chicago. Romero’s recent works consist of wildly colourful, kaleidoscopic abstractions that form cohesive, alien shapes atop planes of white negative space.
Green Monkey Waiting For You, acrylic on paper and cardboard
It’s really interesting to look at Romero’s work as a series, and then to zoom in on each individual piece to observe…
The Acrylic Alchemist: The Art Portfolio of Michael Carini
The Day Pandora Set Me Free (Misteriora), acrylic on canvas
Michael Carini is an artist based in San Diego, California. In his practice, Carini is known as the Acrylic Alchemist, creating works in his titular medium that utilize geometric abstraction and saturated colours to achieve an effect that’s almost digital in appearance.
Just Floating On The Tears (Flears), acrylic on canvas
In his recent series The Boy in the Box,…
The Photography Portfolio of Anne Ferran
From the series Flying Colour, banner print, pigment prints (performer Eléonore Didier)
Anne Ferran is an Australian photographer. Throughout her far-reaching career, Ferran has been fascinated by history -- in particular, the unknown, anonymous figures that lived but have been otherwise forgotten by time. In her photographs, Ferran often seeks to explore the lives of these figures (often women), or lend a sense of agency to their…
The Art Portfolio of Stephane Salvi
vieillesse éternelleStephane Salvi is an artist who paints in a slightly abstracted, naive style, working in broad, deliberate strokes of bright colour, and building up figures in painted line art. The artist’s works are loose and exuberant, capturing a feeling more than distinct detail.
le sculpteur
I enjoy the works in which Salvi combines painting with collage techniques. These works remind me a bit of pieces by fellow…
A Portfolio of Street Art by Jim Joe
Paintings from Look Means Memorize (installation view at The Hole, NY)
Jim Joe is an enigmatic, New York based artist best known for his street art. Joe’s works have been appearing on buildings, sidewalks, and street detritus for years, usually in the form of the artist’s name and some esoteric, pseudo-poetic text in a simple, all-caps scrawl.
A painting from Look Means Memorize (installation view at The Hole, NY)
I like the…
A Portfolio of Paper Collages by Wallace Polsom
Tonalist Abstraction VI, paper collage
Wallace Polsom is an artist who creates layered, well-integrated paper collages that express a variety of emotions and experiences. The artist tends toward classical imagery in his collages, blending aesthetics from renaissance painting with more modern advertising paintings and other cut-out imagery.
God's First, paper collage
In the series Life in the Bloodstream, Polsom’s collages take on…
Volume and Form: The Art Portfolio of Alex Dodge
The Trauma of Information, oil on linen
Alex Dodge is originally from Colorado and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. In his artistic practice, Dodge creates paintings and mixed-media works that play with volume and form in a two-dimensional space.
MJ, oil and glass beads on linen
I find Dodge’s works fascinating to look at -- at first glance, some of his paintings appear to be textile-based sculptures. The way that the artist paints…
Building Atmosphere: An Art Portfolio by Sydney Shen
[DATA EXPUNGED], steel, aluminum
Artist Sydney Shen creates room-sized installations and smaller, sculptural works that focus on asking questions and building atmosphere.
Midnight Game, chair, rope, honey, doorknob, wax
I love the way that Shen incorporates fine details in her work. While each work is constructed in a manner that emphasizes the finer points, the artist goes to interesting lengths to reward the viewer for looking up…
Spaces and Identities: The Art Portfolio of Mickalene Thomas
Racquel Reclining Wearing Purple Jumpsuit
Mickalene Thomas is an American artist who works in a variety of media including painting, photography, and installation. The artist’s works are often dense with patterned detail, overlapping textures, and colour, all of which come together into striking compositions, painting portraits of defined spaces and identities.
I Was Born to Do Great Things (installation view at Kavi Gupta Gallery,…