Articles Tagged with #painting
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The Art of Yielding
Experiencing a piece of art can be transporting, but the act of explaining it to someone else is an art form in itself. No wonder that docents, professors, even patrons get caught up in the act.
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Somebody Call Someone
New paintings that question how much we truly influence our fate, and whether or not life is just a string of accidents.
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The Guardians
Women of the African diaspora crowned with elaborate headpieces, celebrating might, independence, and heart.
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Natura Morta
Inspired by Old Master still lifes, Paulette Tavormina’s photographs lie in an uncanny valley of beauty—dew-dappled flowers combined with jumping goldfish.
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Gia Condo
Thirteen “liberated, assertive, ferocious” takes on Da Vinci’s famous painting show us the Mona Lisa as never before seen.
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Greece Today
Everyday scenes of Greece in paintings that evoke the quiet fatigue from living with economic uncertainty.
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Street Skew
Plenty of artists take inspiration from Google Maps. But Arden Bendler Browning’s abstractions of urban landscapes convince us the city—riotous and tamed, growing and decaying—is more alive than we think.
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Get Closer
Ben Weiner’s paint-splattered palette isn’t just a tool, it’s the basis of his work: landscapes that magnify globs of oil paint a thousandfold and videos that turn the process of mixing paint into a slow ballet.
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Them Thar Hills
A series of imposing mountain ranges made from cornices of thick paint, ridges lightly shadowed, and humans hidden in the snow.
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Comedy of Manners
New paintings where time periods and people shift within the frame, and everything and everyone is unsteady.
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The Artist Perseveres
In a meta-exploration of the “struggling artist” myth, Joe Fig paints portraits of artists—Basquiat, Rembrandt, Kahlo—as portrayed in classic films.
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Love Me Til It Hurts
Glossy paintings of Iranian young women—drawn from the artist’s family and friends—that are inspired by Playboy magazines found in the artist’s father’s closet