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Geraldo de Barros at Document in Chicago
Document is presenting their second solo exhibition of the photographs of Geraldo de Barros. The exhibit will be of a selection of earlier photographs the artist took between 1947 and 1954. The Fotoformas of Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998) were created from the late-1940s through early 1950s, largely in São Paulo. As fitting this period of…
Read MoreColors of Lake Tahoe mixed media works by Deborah Lawrence Schafer
“Colors of Lake Tahoe” is a collaboration of Bay Area artist Deborah Lawrence Schafer and the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC). Upon noticing unmistakable changes to the area when the snowpack on the surrounding mountains all but disappeared in 2015, Schafer became curious about how the drought was affecting the color of the Lake and…
Read More“Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt” at Grey Art Gallery at NYU
For centuries, Greek and Roman myths have inspired artists. New York University’s Grey Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo museum exhibition of the New York–based octogenarian artist Wally Reinhardt, who continues in this time-honored tradition. The exhibit features some 50 watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil illustrations from a series that numbers nearly 200.…
Read MoreMichael Patrick O’Brien “Familiar Address” at University of New Orleans
Michael Patrick O’Brien “Familiar Address” at University of New Orleans In his photographs of family members and familial spaces, O’Brien translates the family’s lineage and spaces as sites of both repetition and evolution. Genetics are inherited, body postures are echoed, the formality of interiors is mimicked, values are passed down, death is present, children appear,…
Read MoreInteract Gallery “Pop!” Exhibition in Saint Paul, Mn
Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts presents POP!, an exhibition featuring exuberant new work by seven artists challenging perceptions of disability. With a shared interest in popular culture, the artists offer imaginative ways of seeing the everyday (including from underwater and outer space!). These artists explore the meaning of “pop” from different vantage points.In…
Read MoreDavid Hornung “Intimate Visions” at Delaware Art Museum
I use my memory and imagination to invent pictures. The subjects I like to paint are ordinary—walls, ladders, rocks, trees, simple buildings, garden tools, ropes, bones, rickety tables. I strip subject matter of extraneous detail so that it appears emblematic rather than naturalistic. This also makes it possible to intermingle pictorial elements with abstract and…
Read MoreGregory Euclide at Hasimoto Contemporary in San Francisco
The depiction of land has often been used as a means of celebrating or critiquing culture. The use of pastoral views, banal architecture and everyday trash problematize the traditional definitions of a natural landscape. Through the process of transforming and miniaturizing materials found in the land, objects, in their new context, are no longer discernible…
Read MoreMichael Rich at Old Spouter Gallery in Nantucket
The painter and printmaker, Michael Rich has for decades, explored the landscapes of his experience in intensely colored, gestural abstractions; lively, inventive drawings and unique monoprints. In large-scale, works in oil, Rich trowels, scrapes and brushes together marks of color to suggest deep and illuminated spaces reminiscent of the sky and sea of his island…
Read MoreAndrea Pramuk at Georgetown Art Center
Texas painter, Andrea Pramuk, creates organic, drawing-based abstractions. Her pictures may seem familiar at first glance, but on closer inspection, they are not things or places that exist, but rather lyrical subjects whose dialogue originates out of line, color and light. She looks to ephemeral subject matter that is constant throughout time, reminiscent of stone,…
Read MoreDavid Ridgway at WaterWorks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington
David Ridgway’s oil painted landscapes reflect a joy, love and understanding for his environment. Whether painting plein aire or in his studio, his images of the hills, valleys, boats, and houses of the San Juan’s and Skagit counties are an appreciative expression of the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. David pares the landscape down to interlocking…
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