Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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“Made in California” at Arcadia Contemporary
Arcadia Contemporary, a long-time bastion of representational art in New York’s SoHo gallery district, has just moved to Santa Monica California. They are opening their first exhibition there with a group show of seven artists they represent who are based in California. “Made in California” opens tomorrow, Saturday April 2, 2016 with an opening reception…
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Eye Candy for Today: Romà Ribera’s De soirée
De soirée (“Evening”), Romà Ribera Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – MNAC, Barcelona. Beautifully economical and richly painterly, Ribera’s portrayal of a young woman engaged in simple activity is a quiet captured moment. It’s interesting to…
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Michael Workman
Utah based artist Michael Workman uses soft edges, rough shapes and muted value contrasts to cast his depictions of the plains, mountains and farmland of his home state in a quiet, poetic naturalism. His compositions, which sometimes walk the line between abstraction and representation, are often strongly geometric, perhaps owing in part to his early…
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The Resurrection by Cecco del Caravaggio (Francesco Buoneri)
The Resurrection, Cecco del Caragaggio (Francesco Buoneri) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Institute of Chicago. One of Caravaggio’s most important assistants and pupils was known as Cecco del Caragaggio, more recently identified as Francesco Buoneri. Though a number of works are…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederico Zuccaro ink and wash drawing
Taddeo Copying Raphael’s Frescoes in the Loggia of the Villa Farnesina, Where He is Also Represented Asleep, Frederico Zuccaro Pen and brown ink with brown wash; roughly 17×8″ (42×17 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum which also has a much…
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Karen Hollingsworth at Principle Gallery, Charleston
Karen Hollingsworth, who I have written about previously for Lines and Colors, will have her latest series of paintings on display in a solo show at the Principle Gallery, Charleston, from April 1st – 30th, 2016. Hollingsworth continues to explore several of her favored themes: sunlit rooms, their volume defined by both light and air;…