Friday, November 19, 2021

Hebru Brantley: Pop Culture and Personal Experience

 Hebru Brantley: Mixed Media meets comic book style draws on a range of pop culture influences. Read his Artsy Bio HERE

"Servant of Wisdom" Mixed Media, 2011

"No Gardens Part II" 2016

"The Big Tracey" mixed Media on Canvas, 2014

Shirin Neshat: femininity, religion, identity, exile, and cultural history

 Shirin Neshat:  The artist is "interested in the effects of Islamic fundamentalism and militancy, and the relationship between the personal and the political" Read more from her Artsy Bio

"Manuel Martinez" from "Land of Dreams" series 2019, digital print, ink, acrylic paint

"Herbie Nelson" from "Land of Dreams" series 2019, digital print, ink, acrylic paint

"Women of Allah" Gelatin Silver print, ink, 1994

"Women of Allah" series Gelatin Silver print, ink, 1994

"Bonding from Women of Allah" 1995

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Grace Lynne Haynes: Merging Painting and Collage

 Grace Lynne Haynes: "merges painting and collage to celebrate the beauty of black female subjects..." more from her Artsy Bio

"A Grand Welcome for the Outsider" Gouache and Collage on paper

"Becoming" mixed media on paper

"Temple on the Horizon" Gouache and Collage on paper

"When Two Collide"

A Mountain High" Gouache and Collage

Helen Zughaib: Drawing on the Arab Experience

 Helen Zughaib: "Exuberantly prismatic and patterned images that draw on the Arab experience." Read more from her Artsy Profile and on her website

"Unfinished Journeys" Silk Screen on Paper

"Spring Flight" Gouache on board

"Spring Exodus" Gouache and Ink on Board

"Moonlight Fishing" Archival pigment print


"Out of the Box" Gouache on board

Monday, November 15, 2021

Approaches to the Portrait

 Approaches to the portraits and figures in context.  Click on the Artist's name to see more works by each artist

Swoon  "Edline"

Sandra Chevrier "La Cage Quand L'Aube Se Leve Sur Un Paysage"

Penda Diakite "Mousso Ya"


Ndidi Emefiele "FeetAndFeather"

Marc Chagall "I and the village"


Lerato Motaung "Thorny Background"

Larry Li "Two Tigers"

Kiyomi Quinn Taylor "You Cut The Orchids"


Kara Walker "Slaughter of the Innocents"

Julia McLaurin "Barack Obama"

Idris Habib "GlobeTrotter"

Greg Giles "Hard Line"

Fahamu Pecou "Trap God"


Delita Martin "Looking on"

Ann Gollifer "Earth Bound"

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Kiyomi Quinn Taylor: "mysterious as the zeal and fury of my feelings..."

 Kiyomi Quinn Taylor: The artist utilize a wide range of media to juxtapose a variety of themes. Note the use of cellophane, canvas scraps, bed sheets, vinyl, thread, etc.  

"A spine for Everybody" Oil, collage on composite board

"Fortune Telling Group at Chilli phi Chilli", Oil, acrylic, colored pencils, paper, felt, fabric, canvas cut-outs, vinyl, thread on canvas.

"Too Afraid to be a coward" Collage, oil, acrylic on bed sheet

"Taylor Cut the Orchids" Oil, collage, ink, and cellophane on composite board

"Raptor Dinner"  Watercolor, plastic, ink, acrylic, colored pencil, collage, paper

David Kennedy Cutler: Engaging with Materiality

David Kennedy Cutler:  The artists transforms digital media into 3 dimensional work, often using his own anatomy a gestural tool to manipulate his sculptures. More from his Artsy Bio Here.

With and Without" 2020, Inkjet transfer, acrylic, and Permalac on canvas 

"Apartment Story", 2020,  Inkjet transfer, acrylic, armature wire Permalac on canvas

"Daydream (study)" 2020, Inkjet transfer, acrylic, armature wire Permalac on canvas

"Habitat" 2020, Inkjet transfer, acrylic and Permalac on canvas, armature wire

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Ann Gollifer: Relationships to a collective human memory

 Ann Gollifer:  "My role as an artist is to search, discover, and communicate personal histories and their relationships to a collective human memory". Read More from her Bio

"Earth Bound" 2020, earth pigments in gum arabic and graphite on 300gsm Arches paper.

"Endangered Species" 2020, earth pigments in gum arabic and pencil

"My Grandmother's Face" 2020, earth pigments in gum arabic and pencil

"Sediment I, II, III" 2020, earth pigments in gum arabic and pencil

"World Views" 2019, Book Lithographs (1826) overdrawn with Watercolor and Ink