Peter Demos is currently showing a new group of paintings at The Journal Gallery, 168 N. 1 St., Brooklyn. With the show, titled Carbon Copy, Demos continues his seductive exploration of black paint and abstraction, with a high level of investment in subtlety and positioning.
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Halsey Hathaway
January 16, 2012 – 5:07 pm
New York-based painter Halsey Hathaway currently has a show up at StoreFront Bushwick. Through a process of painting and staining he creates veils of color and shapes floating and overlapping. Transitions between colors can sometimes pack a punch and at other times be a quiet close up whisper.
Jay Gaskill
December 8, 2011 – 11:36 am
New York based painter Jay Gaskill creates wildly hypnotic paintings that bring together abstraction, pop culture, and design. By combining colors that are harmonious or perfectly ill-fitting, his pristine paint handling allow the images to keep you moving through them at multitude of speeds, triggering emotional associations or sonic echoes. He will be exhibiting at [...]
Kylie Lockwood
November 30, 2011 – 12:38 pm
Kylie Lockwood, a Detroit and New York based artist, incites a re-imagining of the body, forms from the domestic interior world both past and present, and nature through her powerful and quite often poetic combination of material choices and objects. Whether it’s her sculptures, drawings, or photographs she brings us back to a world of [...]
Rachel Budde’s Mythic Warriors
November 10, 2011 – 1:37 pm
Rachel Budde works with a tradition of Persian and Indian miniatures, but her content is charged with sexually driven goddesses, sinister and unbridled cosmos loving warriors.
Kate Costello
September 27, 2011 – 7:41 am
Los Angeles based artist Kate Costello’s current show at Wallspace Gallery, Kiki & Me, features a suite of photographs in which models pose in front of her painted patterned back drops. Evoking Parisian model and famous muse from the 1920′s and 30′s Kiki de Montparnasse, Costello’s photographs keep you looping between the model, pattern painting, and [...]
Roland Ventura
September 25, 2011 – 7:46 pm
Roland Ventura is a Philippines based artist currently showing at Tyler Rollins Fine Art. Using the motif of floating islands from his native country he creates a world in which elements from the underworld of natural and man-made environments are exposed and revealed as they interact with cultural signs- leaving a film of distopic residue.
