Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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William Wray (update)
Since I last wrote about his work back in 2006, California painter William Wray has moved even further toward abstraction. By “abstraction” I don’t mean non-representational art, but the original sense of the word, now somewhat lost, meaning to distill the essence of something. He has also moved from a more muted palette to a…
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Atanas Matsoureff
Bulgarian watercolorist Atanas Matsoureff has a deft command of the medium that allows him to be simultaneously exacting and free, textural and spare. In his still life subjects, Matsoureff’s paintings have a feeling of quiet contemplation, in his landscapes, a sense of quietly observing and listening to nature, and in his figures and portraits, a…
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Andrew Jones
New York based painter Andrew Jones finds beauty in architectural details, particularly those involving patterns like the iron railings that line the stoops in many of the city’s neighborhoods. He also finds fascinating patterns in the complex shadows cast by railings across the multiple planes of stairs in bright sunlight. The sections of his online…
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Bill Carman at Animazing Gallery
The wonderfully idiosyncratic and beautifully rendered work of Bill Carman is on display in an exhibit at the Animazing Gallery in New York. The show is called UnBalanced. It runs until November 30, 2011. Yon can see more of Carman’s work on his blog and in his Flickr galleries for paintings, drawings, book illustration, editorial…
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New series from Karen Hollingsworth
When I wrote an update on painter Karen Hollingsworth in early 2010, as a follow up to my original post from 2006, I was admiring her series of window paintings, luminous white-themed room interiors in which sunlight and air have a palpable presence. Hollingsworth is continuing with that theme, but this year has introduced a…
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Karin Jurick’s Museum Hours
Who would think that paintings of people with their backs to you could be so compelling? When I first wrote about Atlanta based painter Karin Jurick back in 2006, one of the things I admired, in addition to her bright, fresh, painterly approach, was her series of paintings of art museum patrons, in situ, as…