Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rusiñol bridge
Bridge over a River, Santiago Rusiñol On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – MNAC, Barcelona. Beautifully direct painterly realism by the Catalonian painter. See my post on Santiago Rusiñol.
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“Women Painting Women” at Principle Gallery, Charleston
“Women Painting Women” is a collaborative project, founded by Sadie Valeri, Alia El Bermani and Diane Feissel, that’s been represented by a blog since 2009, and showcased as an annual exhibition at the Principle Gallery in Charleston, SC for the past five years. The title is perfectly descriptive, and the list of highly skilled participating…