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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Amy Casey

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    In her most recent series of paintings Cleveland based artist Amy Casey takes familiar structures, largely typical urban and suburban houses and commercial buildings, and arranges them in the context of unfamiliar structures — strands of webbing, extended strings, coils of roads or walls — effectively reframing them and forcing us to look at them…

  • American Masters at the Salmagundi Club

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    The Salmagundi Club, the well known artists’ club in New York, is holding its fourth annual American Masters show and sale from May 4 to May 19, 2011. The show features an impressive list of contemporary American artists, several of whom I’ve featured here on Lines and Colors (see my related posts in the list…

  • Simon Schubert

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    German artist Simon Schubert works in the novel medium of creased paper, using the sharp creases as lines, and apparently letting the differences in surface provide tones under the controlled lighting in which the piece is photographed. His subjects for this sequence of works are largely architectural interiors of a particular villa. They often include…

  • Rachel Constantine

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    Contemporary realist Rachel Constantine is based here in Philadelphia, where she studied at the University of the Arts, The Fleisher Art Memorial and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work is featured in Alla Prima: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Direct Painting by Al Gury, current chairman of the Painting department at PAFA;…

  • Ray Morimura

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    Tokyo born artist Ray Morimura creates woodblock and linocut prints that manage to feel at once traditional and modern. His crisp, sharp edges of color delineate forms that often repeat or combine to form patterns, at times varying in size to suggest perspective and distance. Morimura studied painting at Tokyo Gakugel University. He originally worked…

  • Jonathan Jones’ top five rabbits in art

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    I don’t know how small long-eared mammals (not to mention the shelled embryos of certain avian species and similarly shaped confections) came to be associated with the Christian holiday observance of Easter, but there they are, popping up in popular culture all over the place. Jonathan Jones, writing in his OnArt blog on Guardian.co.uk, uses…