Patchwork of Colour: The Art Portfolio of Ryan Wallace
From the series Off The Wall (installation view at ICA at MECA, Portland, Maine)
Ryan Wallace is a New York artist who creates mixed media artworks and installations. The artist’s images often comprise strips and squares of different materials, layered next to and over one another to create a patchwork of colour and texture.
Collaboration with John Riepenhoff and Jerry The Marble Faun Torre (Installation view at the Elaine de Kooning…The Photography Portfolio of Ben Thomas
Untitled (from Chroma III)
Ben Thomas is a photographer who captures colour, light and setting to such a detailed degree that many of his works seem almost surreal. Rather than trying to recapture a “naked eye” view of the world, Thomas seeks to showcase a vision of the world that’s brighter and crisper than life.
Untitled (from Cityshrinker)
Thomas is well-known for his early use of the “tilt shift” photography…
Ghostly Forms: The Art Portfolio of Theodora Allen
The Triad, oil on linenTheodora Allen is a Los Angeles-based artist who paints in oil on linen, creating subtle, ghostly forms that appear at once calculated and playful. The artist favors figurative subjects in her paintings, though she tends to avoid the human form, focusing instead on plant life, objects, and transient forms like fire and light.
The Snake, No. 1, oil on linen
I find Allen’s use of colour in her works quite…
The Art Portfolio of Charles Gaines
Numbers and Trees, Central Park, Series I: Tree #7, Katelyn, acrylic, inkjet print and plexiglass
Charles Gaines is a California artist who has spent much of his life producing drawings, installations, and media artworks that deliberately remove evidence of the artist’s hand. Gaines’ works are firmly conceptual, and unconcerned with era-specific political or social implications.
Numbers and Trees, Central Park, Series 1: Tree #8,…Angels and Mythology: An Art Portfolio by Peter Mohrbacher
The Lament of SatharielPeter Mohrbacher is a Chicago-based artist and designer who creates beautiful digital paintings and prints based on the idea of angels and mythology.
Suchlaph, Angel of VerdencyMohrbacher’s series of angels offer a fascinating update on classical subject matter. The artist infuses each digital painting with elements that seem straight from classical paintings, along with the cybernetic, the futuristic, and the…
Folk-Art Tradition: The Art Portfolio of John Caple
Shady Woods and White Cottages, acrylic on canvas
John Caple is a self-taught artist who creates paintings in a folk-art tradition. The artist tends to work in mixed media, producing scenes of rural and country life that are often infused with memories and figures from his own past.
The Hermitage, acrylic on canvas
John Caple’s paintings are the perfect blend of eerie stillness and warm, children’s-book-style illustrations. They…
Dollhouse-Sized Dioramas by Ronan-Jim Sevellec
UntitledFrench artist Ronan-Jim Sevellec specializes in creating tiny dollhouse-sized dioramas of various interior scenes. Most of the artist’s works depict buildings in and around Paris.
Untitled
It’s fascinating to see the amount of detail that goes into each one of Sevellec’s art pieces. Photographs of the dioramas taken close-up leave some ambiguity as to whether this is a full-sized room, or a small-scale sculpture. The…
Paint and Colour: The Art Portfolio of Jack Vanzet
SingularityAustralian artist Jack Vanzet explores paint and colour through flowing abstractions that treat individual brush marks as figures in their own right. The artist’s works often look like close-ups or details of a larger artwork.
NorthSouth
Vanzet’s dreamy abstracts celebrate the materiality of paint and the act of painting itself – each work seems to represent a moment in time where the artist’s hand blended with the…
Comic and Narrative Illustration by Woshibai
UntitledWoshibai is a comic and narrative illustration artist based in Shanghai, China. The artist tends to work in a simple, grayscale style, presenting wordless narratives that are often fantastical but grounded in the uncertainties and anxieties of real life.
(detail)
I love the way that the narratives that the artist comes up with fit so nicely with their style. The artist’s relatively pared-down, quiet drawing style fits…
Leaving Childhood: Sculpture by Clementine de Chabaneix
METEOR, ceramicFrench artist Clementine de Chabaneix works in sculpture, drawing, and installation. Her artworks often deal with the pain of metamorphosis and of leaving childhood behind. De Chabaneix expresses these themes with a subdued color palette and quiet symbolism.
On her own website, de Chabaneix describes her work as “romantic, [and] a bit gothic…” This idea does seem to perfectly encapsulate the…
Shoplifter: The Art of Hrafnhilder Arnardóttir
Nervescape VII (installation view at National Gallery of Iceland)
Icelandic artist Hrafnhilder Arnardóttir works under the moniker Shoplifter, creating works in the fascinating medium of hair, borrowing materials, techniques, and aesthetics from the worlds of fashion, fine art, and textile craft.
Gloria - Study for An Opera
Shoplifter’s bright, colorful installations and sculptures have a wonderfully playful edge to them -- some of…
Land-Based Sculptures by Nls Udo
Au Dessus de la Rivière, grass planting (L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France)
Nils Udo is a German artist who has been creating land-based sculptures since the 1960’s. The artist’s style is well-defined and almost stark, if not for Udo’s use of the materials of the surrounding land, creating a fascinating tension between what could exist in nature, and what is necessarily man-made.
La Mousse I, (Forêt des Vosges)
I really love the…
Ghostly Images: The Art Portfolio of Felix Dolah
Unerträglicher Lärm in absoluter Stille
Felix Dolah is an artist based in Mainz, Germany who works in diluted charcoal, creating ghostly images that play with simple figures and negative space. The artist’s works embrace sharp contrast and are devoid of color.
Accattone
My first impression of Dolah’s works is that they’re slightly creepy – the elongated limbs and slightly off-kilter silhouettes of these maybe-human figures…
Frank, Human Images: The Portfolio of Thomas Donaldson
5-28-18 Figure StudyThomas Donaldson is a figurative painter from England, currently based in Asia. The artist works figuratively, creating frank, human images that address both the form and spirit of his models.
5-21-18 figure with orange
I enjoy the way that Donaldson employs large, clearly delineated planes of color build up volumes. He tends toward nude figures and portraits, using a wide, occasionally unexpected range of color…
Striking Floral Close-Ups: Art by John Grant
Dripping TulipJohn Grant works in photography, paint, and printmaking, sometimes combining different techniques or exploring innovative uses of technology to create his images. Recent works by the artist take the form of striking floral close-ups.
Spring Flowers
I really enjoy the artist’s recent floral works. While they look like photographs, in at least some of these, the artist uses a high-resolution scanner to capture the form…