Month: September 2014
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Valentin Korotkov
Valentin Korotkov is a Russian painter based in Moscow, who studied at the Art College of the Kharkov Academy of Design and Art. He paints with a brusque, textural style, in which the surface texture and paint application is visible even in small reproductions. His landscapes have a nice quality of casual immediacy, and range…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean Robie still life
Flowers and fruit, Jean-Baptiste Robie A stunning tour de force of subtle color, texture, light and dark by the Belgian still life painter. On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and measures roughly 64×54 inches (164x137cm). As is often the case, the…
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beinArt Collective returns
Founded in 2003 by Jon Beinart as the “beinArt Australian Surreal Art Collective” and expanded internationally in 2006 as the “beinArt International Surreal Art Collective”, the beinArt Collective has long been a web destination, publisher and sponsor of group exhibitions for artists working in the areas of strange, surreal, fantastic, psychedelic, visionary and outsider art.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s Mast Grove
The Mast-tree Grove, Ivan Shishkin One of my favorites by the great Russian landscape painter. “Mast-tree Grove”, means a stand of trees suitable for making the masts of large sailing ships. I have to stand back in awe at the way he has handled a subject that could be reduced to sameness in the hands…
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“Solstice”: solo exhibition of Aron Wieseifeld at Arcadia Contemporary Soho
“Solstice” is the title of a solo exhibition of the work of Aron Wieseifeld at Arcadia Contemporary, Soho, that runs from today to October 3, 2014. There is a book signing at the gallery on Saturday, September 20th at noon, at which Wiesenfeld will be signing copies of his new book, The Well (more here).…
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Yulia Brodskaya
Illustrator and gallery artist Yulia Brodskaya uses colored paper — cut and bent into strips and carefully arranged in linear, textural patterns — to create her images. This is a traditional technique called quilling. Brodskaya’s website has galleries of both her illustration and gallery art, though unfortunately reproduced in small images; which is odd, as…