Andrew Guenther is an American artist who lives in New York. Born and raised in Wheaton, Illinois, his work deals with the concepts of the evolution of the self, life and spirituality, and the evolution of culture. Guenther’s work will appear in a group show entitled MIE: A Portrait by 35 Artists at Freight and [...]
Category Archives: Drawing
No Sombrero
December 9, 2011 – 2:33 pm
The Poetry Club Art Space is a new underground gallery in the basement of a Bed-Stuy apartment, open to all mediums of art, performance, music, and catering specifically to young and emerging artists. Curated by Melissa Godoy Nieto, in collaboration with María J. Baez and Liliana Zúñiga from Mexico City, their current exhibition, No Sombrero, focuses on the [...]
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 [...]
The Expressionist Origins of Lisette Model
September 23, 2011 – 9:17 am
Self Reflections: The Expressionist Origins of Lisette Model opened yesterday at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 535 W. 24 St., NYC. The show features the photographs of master portrait photographer Lisette Model alongside some of the great (and my favorite) European Expressionist such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, George Grosz, Jeanne Mammen, and Lyonel Feininger. The show [...]
Z Behl
July 2, 2011 – 10:29 am
Z Behl is a 25-year-old artist from New York working in Brooklyn. She makes drawings that wish they were paintings, paintings that wish they were sculptures, and most recently sculptures that wish they were people. This wooden army is her most recent installation, last seen at Bluxome Point in San Francisco.
Whorescope
May 4, 2011 – 9:02 am
Whorescope is a series of twelve drawings by Caris Reid. The project is titled after Samuel Beckett’s poem of the same name, and channels the sexual energy of the twelve astrological signs of the Zodiac, one drawing for each. Shown here, from top to bottom, are Scorpio, Pisces, Aquarius, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Libra.
Alex Massouras
April 13, 2011 – 2:35 pm
Alex Massouras is a London-based artist who has a solo show up at Skylight Projects in New York through May 2nd. The show is 18 drawings, each created using colored-pencil shavings. The paper used for each drawing comes from an old composition notebook found by the artist on the streets of Paris and all of [...]
Jean-Sébastien Furer
February 12, 2011 – 2:16 pm
These pieces by Jean-Sébastien Furer are currently on view at Saks Gallery in Geneva as part of the exhibition Under Construction. The show, which runs through March 12, also features works by Laurent Kropf, Oscar Tuazon, Olympia Scarry and Sara VanDerBeek.
Lee Godie
December 17, 2010 – 8:41 pm
Lee Godie was a Chicago based outsider artist, who spent much of her adult life homeless, selling her paintings in front of the Art Institute of Chicago for $5 or $100, depending on her mood. Now her paintings can be found at auction houses, selling for thousands of dollars.
