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…
Eye-Catching Lines: Art by Jonathan McCree
Do Be Do Be Do, installation view
Jonathan McCree creates paintings, sculptures, and installation works in a contemporary style, drawing aesthetic inspiration from a wide range of sources. McCree’s artworks are frenetic and bombastic, never shying away from bright color and bold, eye-catching lines.
Untitled, oil stick, acrylic, and spray paint on collaged paper
I find that some of McCree’s works are reminiscent of paintings by …
Anatomical and Floral: Art by Nunzio Paci
When the darkness is no longer frightening, pencil and acrylic on canvas mounted on board
Nunzio Paci lives and works in Italy, where he creates paintings, drawings, and combinations of the two that reference anatomical and scientific illustration while exploring abstracted compositions. In recent drawings and paintings, the artist combines anatomical and floral.
The instability of flesh, oil and pencil on canvas
The slightly soft…
Urban and Social Landscape: Art by Cui Jie
Overpass at Shuang Jing Qiao, oil on canvas
Cui Jie is a Chinese artist who combines painting techniques with the aesthetics of collage and photo-manipulation. In her studio practice, Cui creates artworks that explore changes in China’s urban and social landscape through visual markers that call to mind a double-exposed photograph.
Zhao Wei Building, oil on canvas
I really enjoy the way that Cui combines realistic architectural…
Intimate and Opaque: Art by Charles Ray
Baled Truck, stainless steelSculptor Charles Ray works with familiar forms and objects, playing with scale, texture, and process to address a variety of ideas through interactions with the art. Ray is known for rendering human forms in realistic detail to create sculptures that are both intimate and opaque.
Fall '91, mixed mediaBrowsing through images of Ray’s sculptures, I’m reminded of works by Christina A. West. The level of…
Personal and Political Identities: Art by Fatma Bucak
Blessed are you who come - conversation on the Turkish-Amernian border (video still)
Fatma Bucak was born in Iskenderun, Turkey, and now lives and works in both London and Istanbul. The artist is known for her works dealing with personal and political identities, which often take the form of multimedia installations or participatory experiences.
Undetermined remains (from series A Study of Eight Landscapes), archival pigment print
I…
Speculative Tech: Art by Tom McDowell
Tom McDowell is London-based concept artist who works with ideas and aesthetics from science fiction. The artist’s works range from highly detailed three-dimensional models of space ships and other speculative tech, to more stylized drawings and character concepts.
Untitled, from Sci-Fi Doodles series
I’m really enjoying browsing through McDowell’s collection of “doodles” – though many are just a single…
Abstract Paradise: Art by Matthieu Venot
Untitled I (Montpellier), photographic print
Photographer Matthieu Venot captures views of an abstract paradise. The artist takes a minimalist approach to photography, seeking out the color and geometry of an architectural features and focusing in until the shapes take on new meaning.
Untitled III (BRUT), photographic print
I love Venot’s recent series of building portraits. In each of these photographs, a single apartment tower…
Cultural Ubiquity: Art by Sam McKinniss
Prince, acrylic and oil on canvas
Sam McKinniss is a painter based in Williamsburg, New York. The artist is known for his detailed, painterly portraits of pop-culture figures. In recent years, McKinniss has become particularly known for recreating photos of celebrities and other bits of internet and Western cultural ubiquity, rendering them in detailed, classically-styled brush strokes.
Portrait of Lourde for the cover of Melodrama
I…
Playful Cat Illustrations: Art by Kamwei Fong
Moo & InkyKamwei Fong is an artist based in Malaysia. Fong’s has recently become known on the internet for his playful cat illustrations that utilize a distinctive style of monochromatic ink work.
Kitty No. 12
Fong has a great eye for negative space in his works – most of the pieces focus on a central figure positioned in a way that draws the eye elegantly across the image surface. I can see definite allusions to the aesthetic…
Expressive Nature: Art by Kaylee Dalton
Dark Lush (landscape), encaustic monotype and mixed media on Stonehenge black
Kaylee Dalton’s uses a combination of printmaking, collage, painting, and encaustic to address the expressive nature of, well --- nature. Dalton’s layered, gestural approach to image-making results in artworks that are as lush as the plant growths that they reference.
Lush No. 12 (landscape), encaustic monotype and mixed media on Rives BFK
For all the…
Systems and Processes: Art by Rob Chavasse
Marsh Lane Diversion, diverted shipment of plasterboard (installed at Frieze London 2016)
Rob Chavasse is an artist who specializes in conceptual installations and video projects. Chavasse’s work is often site-specific, and the artist favors materials like household appliances, and manufacturing goods and tools to help him address common systems and processes.
Slow Dance, radiators, extension cables, motor system (installed at David…