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MAPANARE WILL BEGIN PUBLISHING AGAIN APRIL 30, 2021....BEGONE COVID!

3/5/2021

Most of the content on Mapanare came from art shows....and there haven't been any for some time. Even gallery openings have been limited (and frankly I wasn't comfortable posting about events that encouraged people to gather in groups).

Yes , yes I know I could have posted about virtual events but that became hard to keep track of.

Anyone wanting to discuss their upcoming shows and work? Please feel free to get in touch!

De Bucks Gallery (New York City) Showed Work By Stephen Towns At Untitled Miami Beach 2019

7/15/2020

The Gift of Lineage #6

De Bucks Gallery (New York City) showed work by Stephen Towns at Untitled Miami Beach 2019. Untitled is holding an online fair that begins July 31.

Towns work has an icongraphic feel. The dimensions, the halos and they mythology, the stories, in these pieces sometimes looks like Medieval Italy and at other times like earlier images from Byzantium.

Of course, they are MODERN, tweaked versions of that style, not some rote copy of them. It is probably better to say there are elements of those old iconographic styles used to tell new stories..

African-American history and culture provide the subject matter. These pieces are multi-media incorporating fabric, paint, crystal, resin and other media.

Towns, from South Carolina, holds a BFA from the University of South Carolina. You can see more of his work at stephentowns.com.

And the Lord shall cast a spell

Albertz Benda (New York) Showed Work By Patrick Quarm At Untitled Miami Beach 2019

7/15/2020

Albertz Benda (New York) showed work by Patrick Quarm at Untitled Miami Beach 2019. Untitled will be holding an online version of the fair July 32, August 1 and 2, 2020.

Quarm, born in Ghana and now living and working in the United States,creates three dimensional pieces using acrylic and oil on African print fabric. The pieces have two pieces put together with such care that it is hard to photograph them to show the depth but look closely!

Quarm holds a BFA in painting from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and an MFA in painting and drawing from Texas Tech University.

You can find out more at www.patrickquarm.com.

Steve Turner (Los Angeles) Showed Work By Gabby Rosenberg And David Shrobe At Untitled Miami Beach 2019

2/2/2020

Mourning Parts by Gabby Rosenberg

Steve Turner (Los Angeles) showed work by Gabby Rosenberg and David Shrobe at Untitled MIami Beach 2019.

Rosenberg is a young artist from Chicago who holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She is now based in Los Angeles.

Her work, figurative though it is, is a TAD less than realistic. She often plays of popular culture icons (Mr. Potato Head, for instance). She creates her own iconography and reuses those images. You can see and read more at grosenberg.com.

Shrobe creates multi-media work that recalls classical portraiture....except that it is nothing about them is like classical portraiture. The pieces are fragments from many various time periods. His work often includes domestic odds and ends from various places. Find out more at davidshrobe.com.

by David Shrobe

Makasiini Contemporary (Turku, Finland) Showed Work By Fabian Marcaccio And Pablo Tomek At Untitled Miami Beach 2019

1/28/2020

Yet to be Titled by Fabian Marcaccio

Makasiini Contemporary (Turku, Finland) showed work by Fabian Marcaccio and Pablo Tomek at Untitled Miami Beach 2019.

Marcaccio is an Argentine-Italian artist based in New York.

Tomek is a French-born, Belgium-based artist whose expressive work is generally large format.

LP T-4 by Pablo Tomek

Denny Dimon Gallery (Hong Kong / New York) Showed Work By Paula Wilson At Untitled Miami Beach 2020

1/28/2020

Light It Up by Paula Wilson

Denny Dimon Gallery (Hong Kong / New York) showed work by Paula Wilson at Untitled Miami Beach 2020.

Wilson is a multi-media artist who uses printmaking, painting, sculpture and video. There is something that suggest stained glass when you look at these intricate works. Her pieces are collage-ish. It is hard to actually label them with that term without qualification.

Window Sill, for instance, is screen print, monotype, acrylic and oil on muslin and canvas with video insert (you can see the insert in the detail below). Light it up also has a video insert and is acrylic, printing ink (monotype, woodblock, lithograph) and oil on muslin and canvas. As you can see the media Wilson uses is varied.

The artist, originally from Chicago and now living in New Mexico, holds a BFA from Washington University (St. Louis) and a MFA from Columbia.

Find out more about the artist at paulajwilson.com.

Window Sill by Paula Wilson (detail below)

Jason Jacques Gallery (New York) Showed Work By Nick Weddell At Design Miami 2019

1/20/2020

Four Eyes

photo by Boyd Ogle II

Jason Jacques Gallery (New York) showed work by Nick Weddell at Design Miami 2019.

Weddell, from Austin, Texas, holds a BFA in ceramics from Texas State University and an MFAa from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Four Eyes is stoneware, porcelin and glaze. Even in person it somehow gives the idea of being plush. Weddell's work mixes the monstrous with the whimsical and colorful.

Todd Merrill Studio (New York) Showed Various Work At Design Miami 2019

1/19/2020

photos by Boyd Ogle II

Todd Merrill Studio (New York) showed various work at Design Miami 2019.

Todd Merrill is the third generation of his family to work in the design business. They began collection eighteenth and nineteenth century American Furniture.

Obviously now they are helping design the furniture (and fine art pieces) of the 21st Century. They represent emerging and established artists with unique, and sometimes outlandish, views on design and functionality.

Future Perfect (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles) Showed Work By Chris Wolston At Design Miami 2019

1/10/2020

photos by Boyd Ogle II

Future Perfect showed work by Chris Wolston at Design Miami 2019.

The Nalgona dining chairs are made from Colombian Mimbre (wicker) which is sourced from the Amazon (and sourced responsibly). The chairs mimic not only the human form but plastic Remax chairs, which are apparently popular throughout Colombia.

Future perfect was founded 17 years ago by David Alhadeff. IN that time they have become one of the world's foremost design studios. Their work run from one of a kind to studio creations.

Find out more about the artist at www.chriswolston.com.

Pierre Marie Giraud (Brussels) Showed Work At Design Miami 2019

1/10/2020

photos by Boyd Ogle II

Pierre Marie Giraud (Brussels) showed work at Design Miami 2019. They work in contemporary art, focusing on glass, ceramics and Japanese craft. They work with a variety of international artists and hold frequent themed group and solo shows throughout the year.