Long Island native Christopher Breining’s naturalistic watercolors and drawings balance technical mastery and figurative representation with the personal interpretation of the artist. A self-taught artist, Breining prefers to start with a photograph — usually black-and-white — that he can trace and then [Read More]
Daily Archives: November 16, 2014
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In her lively oil paintings, C. Selves says her goal is to depict no less than “my life, my person, my class, and my generation.” Her vision of her world in contemporary Spain is at once personal, humble, and wittily modern in [Read More]
Inspired by Toulouse-Lautrec and the lyrics of Bellman, an 18th century Swedish songwriter, Swedish-born Anders Hafsbrandt explores the decadent and romantic sadness of society’s outcasts. “I place the poor, misunderstood and drunken people in exclusive environments and a tension emerges,” notes the [Read More]
Richly wrought in vivid tones, Chilean artist Alejandra Larrea Koch’s luscious geometric abstractions explore the sphere as a symbol of organically feminine perfection, dynamically balanced between timelessness and creation. The roundness of the shapes becomes filled with a textural movement and surface [Read More]