Saturday, August 7, 2021

Niki de Saint Phalle: Taking aim at the violence of the times

 Niki de Saint Phalle: A variety of  mixed media including plaster, wire, paint, found object, wood, toys.

She treated the objects as a shooting gallery, exploding paint all over, on, in and throughout the work. In her words: "I took aim at the violence of the times"

"Gorgo in New York"

Details below





Her Life and Work HERE

Work on view at the MFA-Houston

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Ergin Inan: Expressive Portraits

 Ergin Inan: Bold use of color, value, texture, brush stroke and contrast in his expressive portraits.

On ArtNet and on Artsy

Billinmeyen Portre

From the 'Icon' series

"I offer my eyedrops as a vine of color in order to see your beauty"

Potre 1

Potre 2

Potre


Thameur Mejri: Layering of images and Ideas

 Tunisian Artist Thameur Mejri layers images using a variety of lines, shapes, spaces, colors, values utilizing a range of drawing and 2-D Media including pencil, charcoal, acrylic, and oil paint

See More Work via ARTSY

Deactivate, 2020

Experimental Urges

Heretic Spaces 3

Two Figures at War

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Monday, May 17, 2021

Matthew Shlian: The Power of Paper

 Sculptor Mathew Shlian transforms paper into elaborated folded sculptures making incredible use of color, value, space, pattern, and rhythm










Matthew's Website

Featured on My Modern Met

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Greg Giles: The Process is the Destination Part III

Mr.  G's final stage of this sustained investigation 

In Part 1 of this bookPart 2  , and Part 3  A different drawing was created each day for 75 days. The drawings were connected in 'twos' in Part 4 of this book, and the drawing continued for 37 days. The drawings were then connected in 'fours' in Part 5 of this book and the drawings continued.  In this final stage, all the drawings were combined into 1 two-sided 46-meter drawing. 



























See Below for the process in the Studio