Fine Art News

The exuberant abstract work of Shireen Mussa is at once playful and highly conceptual. Mussa’s paintings, done in oil on canvas and linen, use pure color as their subject. Bright teals, yellows, and crimsons take shape as closed, organic-looking dollops and dance [Read More]

As she blurs the divide between inner and outer realities, the Iranian artist Masoome Moradkhani known as Masi distills a darkly atmospheric and dreamlike vision of a life without borders. Within Masi’s surreal and abstracted landscapes of the soul linger the influences [Read More]

Lili creates high-impact abstract acrylic and collage paintings that immediately impress the viewer. Loose black lines sweep gracefully atop bold color, drawing the eye around each piece; the artist prefers to work on a large scale to maximize the effect of her [Read More]

The Australia Council for the Arts announces Fiona Hall AO as the artist to represent Australia at the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2015. The Adelaide-based artist, who works across a broad range of media, will be the sole artist exhibiting [Read More]

Leo Komuro’s charming works of acrylic and colored pencil on paper and digital C prints explore the border territory where the basic use of crayons, pencil and drawing meet the digital age. Working in both mediums – sometimes within the same composition [Read More]

RICHMOND, Virginia, – Richmond-based artist Joshua Barber reveals “city,” his first new collection in three years, on December 6, 2013, at the Glave Kocen Gallery from 6-9 p.m. The six-piece series consists of kaleidoscopic visions of the old city of Jerusalem, which [Read More]

Brooklyn, NY – They say great things come in small packages. As 440 Gallery presents its Ninth Annual Small Works Show this December, this adage may just prove true. The 80 pieces of artwork in the gallery, each piece no larger than [Read More]

Georg Schöllhammer and Hedwig Saxenhuber are the curators of the Second Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2014, as announced at Kiev’s Mystetskyi Arsenal Complex on November 26. ARSENALE 2014 will run from September through November 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine with [Read More]

#1: Cartagena is an issue-oriented project with works spread throughout the historic district. #1: Cartagena reflects on the cultural traditions of the people, the history and the deep connections to the colonial past, as well as encompassing literature, cinema, music, dance and [Read More]

In 2013 the Art Basel show in Miami Beach features 258 leading international galleries, drawn from 31 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. In addition to showing artworks ranging from modern masters to the latest contemporary works, this [Read More]

Storefront for Art and Architecture presents BEING on view through January 18, 2014 . BEING is a curatorial experiment in the construction of critical institutional histories through an exhibition that looks into Storefront’s 30 years of history of amplifying, questioning, unveiling, connecting, [Read More]

Isabelle Habegger’s work draws its inspiration as much from her inner world as it does from her love of nature and her interest in what is happening around her. Those inner and outer worlds meet in paintings that combine a dreamlike aura [Read More]

Whether stylized, abstract, or fully surreal, the work of Huguette Thiboutot is alive with movement and light. Thiboutot is a trained musician, and describes color as “the other side of sound.” Her palette is accordingly an intense and vital part of her [Read More]

Inspired by Abstract Impressionists, street artists, and Impressionists alike, Felix Semper uses his paintings to explore the joyful power of draftsmanship. The artist employs a restricted palette and often an absent or gestural background. The images do not exist in a recognizable [Read More]