I could not find the artist on their site and usually I wouldn't post a piece where I was unsure of the gallery but I found this piece striking.
You can see a little more of why in the video below.
Zhang Zhan's piece--I do not have the name-- was shown (I think) by Il Ponte Contemporanea out of Rome At Expo Chicago 2013. I could not find the artist on their site and usually I wouldn't post a piece where I was unsure of the gallery but I found this piece striking. You can see a little more of why in the video below.
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Tandem Press (Madison, Wisconsin) always have impressive large-scale prints to show--be it at Expo Chicago 2013 or at Ink in Miami Beach during Art Week. These are by artists Jim Dine and Judy Pfaff. Dine is often called a "pop artist". Pop art uses images from popular culture in the work. I don't always see this in Dine's work (is a heart part of pop culture) but he certainly comes for the era and has similar style to other pop artists. Pfaff is most known as an installation artist but she also does large scale woodblock prints like the two below. She is also a painter and a sculptor. A few years ago she was the subject of a career retrospective exhibit at New York's Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe Gallery. Pieces By Judy Pfaff
Linda Fleming's Evanescent: Sculptures, Wall Sculptures and Drawings runs from Brian Gross Fine Art (248 Utah St., San Francisco) from November 2 to December 21, 2013. There will be a reception with the artist from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, November 2. This solo exhibit of Fleming, a scullptor, consists of free standing pieces, wal sculptures and small gouache studies. These pieces are an exploration of the transitory nature of physical materials. Fleming, from Pittsburgh, attended Carnegie Mellon University and is a professor of sculpture and fine art at California College of the Arts. A.R. Penck, from Germany, was shown at Expo Chicago by Galerie Terminus (Munich). Yes, I know there is a chair in the photo. A.R. Penck is a painter, sculptor and printmaker. His real name is Ralf Winkler, which is, in fact, at least as cool a name as A.R. Penck. Eugene Von Bruenchenhein's Red Wing Tower was shown by Fleisher Ollman Gallery (1216 Arch Street, 5A Philadelphia) at Expo Chicago 2013. The gallery is also opening an exhibit of the artist's work October 10 which runs until December 7, 2013. I regret not getting a better photo of this piece. I tried to make up for this by posting the video. Von Bruenchenhein lived and worked in Wisconsin and was a new renaissance man. He worked as a baker but was also a poet, painter, photographer and sculptor. He often used "re-purposed" objects in his work. Diverse, creative and truly beautiful his work is something anyone in Philadelphia between now and December should be sure to see. Platform Gallery (114 Third Avenue South, Seattle) is running Ross Sawyers' This Is The Place exhibit from October 17 to November 23, 2013. There will be a lecture by the artist Wednesday, October 16 at Photo Center Northwest Get tickets HERE. There will also be an opening with the artist Thursday, October 17. Sawyers is a photographer who focuses on urban domestic architecture. His ongoing project looks at living spaces and contemporary culture with an eye to community and privacy. The artist has an MFA from the University of Washington. This is Sawyers fourth solo show with the gallery. Annely Juda Fine Art (London) showed this subtle, heavily textured work by Leon Kossoff. Kossoff is a British painter. He paints mostly images of London, his native city. He is still alive and kicking at the ripe old age of 87. He was once offered a CBE (Knighthood) and turned it down. He also doesn't generally do interviews (there is one on Youtube). His work is expressive an while the colors are often, at first glance, subdued when you look closer you see so much color in the detail. His work is truly remarkable and has a look all its own. I wish I had done a better job of photographing this piece and I expect the gallery had more of his work on hand. I apologize and recommend that you head to the gallery website to see more and better images of his work. New York's P.P.O.W. Gallery has noteworthy work by a variety of artists at every show they attend. Even if you just go to art shows as a spectator, not buying, not taking notes, theirs will be one you recall. This year's Expo Chicago was no exception. You cannot get an idea of Julie Heffernan's painting from this photograph--it is five and a half feet square for one. But more than that the color doesn't translate. David Wojnarowicz' Science Totem looks a lot more like itself in this image. The artist did several pieces like this but they are not his only work. P.P.O.W. represent the artist's estate. Carolee Scheemann's paintings below are a little hard to get at via photos (in part because some of them are smaller pieces). The video, shaky handed as it is, may help. Paintings by Carolee Schneemann These pieces by Milton Avery, Hans Hoffman and Morris Graves were shown by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (New York) at Expo Chicago 2013. The gallery focuses on American artists from the 20th an 21st Century. The artists above are a pretty good list of American artists from the 20th Century. They have held over 160 exhibitions and published over 100 exhibition catalogs in their over two decades. Of these pieces the Graves still-life most caught my eye and, since we've written in the past about Avery and Hoffman why not go on a little about Graves? Graves was a native of Oregon. True the the wanderlust that seemed to grip the youth of the 20s he became a merchant sailor for years, then wandered the USA before, at least briefly, settling in Texas. He wound up in Seattle, then Ireland and finally Northern California. Graves was a self-taught painter and it is vaguely amusing how the gallery website almost apologizes for this, as if it is impossible to be self-taught and be good. You need an MFA dammit! (ahh..New York!). His work was influenced by his travels, especially his eastern travels (and contact with eastern religions). The piece below has a certain Zen quality to it. In addition to the gallery website you can find out more about Graves HERE. These pieces were shown by Hollis Taggart Gallery (New York) at Expo Chicago 2013. You should know Alexander Calder. He was a sculptor and painter whose unmistakeable works have become ubiquitous at art shows. Many galleries hold pieces by the prolific artist--and his work is popular now. The gallery has a great bio on the artist at their website. No matter your level of art knowledge you will, if you visit museums, art shows, galleries, eventually run into artists you don't know . Sam Francis was a new artist to me as was Theodoros Stamos. Francis is known for his color. Was he an abstract expressionist? Was he a color field artist? I really cannot say. Ask an art historian. The piece below seems more abstract expressionist but, really, how much does what "school" an artist belonged to matter? Did it matter to them? |
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