The artist known as Jasso paints high energy abstracts with oils and acrylics on canvas. Wild patterns and vibrant colors are prevalent in his work, and his paintings often take on a sculptural quality; abstract shapes and deliberate shadows come together to [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Entranced by the breathtaking beauty of the botanical world, Argentinean artist Graciela Montich portrays the greatness of nature in her works. Painting on linen, Montich depicts the essence of flora and fauna with spectacularly detailed realism. With careful and scrupulous brushwork, these [Read More]
As he plays upon allegorical themes of morality and addiction, the artist who signs his work as ‘Gomesoto’ brings viewers deep into a dreamworld of myth and desire. Gomesoto depicts his subjects immersed within their obsessions, surrounded by a mist of sensuality. [Read More]
Latin American Guillermo Gonzalez leaps across styles and media in pursuit of his self-professed desire “to break with the traditional [and] disorganize” the meanings of his work. Gonzalez picks up and puts down techniques easily, creating an acrylic Expressionist work of explosive [Read More]
The young Cuban artist Gabriela Alejandra Martinez Mendez works in an Expressionist style, translating feelings and emotions into vigorous, thick brushstrokes, which she layers into dense and thickly impastoed compositions bursting with energy, tones, and textures. Her mixed media works may evoke [Read More]
Stills Scotlands Centre for Photography presents Angela Ferreira: Political Cameras an exhibition on view through 27 Oct 2013. For her first solo exhibition in a public gallery in the UK, Ângela Ferreira presents her renowned project Political Cameras (For Mozambique series) alongside [Read More]
The Skyscraper Museum presents Urban Fabric: Building New York’s Garment District an exhibition on view through October 31, 2013. Once home to the largest concentration of skyscraper factories in the world and more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs, New York’s historic Garment District [Read More]
The Hammer Museum presents A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living an exhibition on view through September 8, 2013. A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living is the first major museum retrospective of the Los Angeles-based architect’s work and pays special attention [Read More]
Foksal Gallery presents Honza Zamojski Fishing with John an exhibition on view 12 September–31 October 2013. What lies at the root of the concept for the exhibition is a synthesis between Honza Zamojski’s love of angling and his collector’s zeal. For several [Read More]
A collection of images captured in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska by Anchorage photographer 3 is being exhibited at Snow City Café in downtown Anchorage for the month of September 2013. Drawn from over 24,000 images captured during three years of [Read More]
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art presents DAVID MAISEL/BLACK MAPS an exhibition on view September 1, 2013. DAVID MAISEL/BLACK MAPS is a survey of four chapters of Maisel’s larger ongoing series titled Black Maps. Composed of large-scale photographs, this exhibition leads the viewer [Read More]
When: The 17th annual Gowanus Open Studios (GOS 2013) on October 19-20, 12noon – 6PM. Cost: Free Why: This annual event invites the public to visit, view, purchase and talk to artists about their art and art-making processes. Featuring over 150 artists [Read More]
Titled Sletto & Corso, the 20th edition of the Sélestat Biennial of Contemporary Art open September 21–October 27, 2013, pays tribute to the Sletto mythical figure and the Corso Fleuri parade. These two significant aspects of the identity of the city of [Read More]
The Biennale de Montréal announce the appointment of Sylvie Fortin as Executive and Artistic Director of La Biennale de Montréal – BNL MTL, beginning Tuesday, September 3, 2013. Sylvie Fortin will be responsible for the vision, strategic development and positioning of La [Read More]