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Gallery1957 (Accra, Ghana) Showed Work By Serge Attukwei Clottey At Untitled Miami Beach 2018

12/21/2018

Gallery1957 (Accra, Ghana) showed work by Serge Attukwei Clottey at Untitled Miami Beach 2018. We can assume the name comes from the year when Kwame Nkrumah declared Ghana an independent nation.

Clottey creates work based on everyday items but is also a photographer, performance artist, installation artist and sculptor. The artist calls his own work "Afrogallonism", an examination of material culture via kuffuor gallon jugs. The pieces here are made of the jugs, jute sacks, car tires and bits of wood (among other items). The jugs are symbolic of the recycling, the reusing in the culture of the West African nation.

From a distance they seem to be made of some natural material or even woven fabric. It is only when you get close that you see the real materials. They are, even without context, fascinating pieces to look at . They beg you to ask questions.

Find out more at Afrogallonism.com.

Il Chiostro Arte Contemporanea (Saronno, Italy) Showed Work By Giancarlo Scaglia At Untitled Miami Beach 2018

12/21/2018

Silver 5

Il Chiostro Arte Contemporanea (Saronno, Italy) showed work by Giancarlo Scaglia at Untitled Miami Beach 2018.

Scaglia is a Peruvian artist who lives and works in Lima. This piece is oil on unstretched canvas. The piece is a large one that is not done justice by any small scale photograph. It is 123 x 145 cm.

This piece may seem like a simple landscape but it is more than that. The artist's work examines armed conflicts in Peru in past decades. He spent years on the Island of El Fronton, which is off the coast of Lima. The island was a prison island were dissidents were often killed under dictatorships. Scaglia's work is this landscape but it goes deeper into the land and history.

Wildpalms (Dusseldorf) Showed Work By Lauriston Avery At Untitled Miami Beach 2018.

12/21/2018

Wildpalms (Dusseldorf) showed work by Lauriston Avery at Untitled Miami Beach 2018.

This piece's intricacy translates poorly in a photograph (hence the close up below). The artist uses spray paint, charcoal dust and powdered pigment and etched paper (this piece may have all or none of those elements individually).

You can check out more work from the artist at the rather cryptic website lauristonavery.com.

Alarcon Criado (Sevilla, Spain) Showed Work By Francois Bucher At Untitled Miami Beach 2018

12/21/2018

Yo no soy un hombre, Ano Zero

Alarcon Criado (Sevilla, Spain) showed work by Francois Bucher at Untitled Miami Beach 2018.

Bucher, from Columbia but now living and working in Berlin, was trained in Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The pieces here are described as "9 photographic interventions: inkjet print on cotton paper and graphite on wax paper. Wooden backing and planks."

His work, mostly films, have been exhibited worldwide.

Albertz Benda (New York) Showed Work By Del Kathryn Barton At Untitled Miami Beach 2018

12/21/2018

the fever is here

Albertz Benda (New York) showed work by Del Kathryn Barton at Untitled Miami Beach 2018.

Barton is an Australian artist and a two time winner of the Archibald Prize, an Australian prize for portrait painting that has been awarded since 1921. Barton's second win was for a portrait of actor Hugo Weaving (you know, Elrond , Agent Smith, V....)

These paintings are a bit more fantastical than that one. Attempts to take more close photos were thwarted by the number of people looking at these pieces at a given time. They do catch the eye and more than that they KEEP your eye on them.

These pieces are acrylic and spray paint on French linen. New school meets old school.

Anglim Gilbert Gallery (San Francisco) Showed Work By Joan Brown At Untitled Miami 2018

12/21/2018

Figure with Aura

Anglim Gilbert Gallery (San Francisco) showed work by Joan Brown at Untitled Miami 2018.

Brown was part of the Bay Area figurative movement and is one of the most important of that crew. Her first major show was at the Whitney Museum's yearly show in 1960. She was 22 years old in 1960. Saying this is unusual for the time is a massive understatement (both in terms of age and gender).

Her art is obviously figurative, as one would expect a person from the figurative movement, but her colors are unique. They are bright, veering sometime into pastel. Some pieces seem to be inspiration for a number of experimental comic/graphic novel artists of later years (not super hero comics). Her works are rife with personal symbolism as well and you have to do some research to decode them. It is always a thrill to see Brown's paintings.

You can find out more at the Joan Brown Estate website. Her family started this in 1990. It is a wonderful collection of images and information.

The Cosmic Nurse

Tyburn Gallery (London) Showed Work By Francisco Vidal At Untitled Miami Beach 2018

12/20/2018

Non-Alligned Movement series

Tyburn Gallery (London) showed work by Francisco Vidal at Untitled Miami Beach 2018.

Vidal was born in Portugal and lives between Portugal and Angola.

He has a BFA from Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Portugal and an MFA from Columbia University. He works in different mediums but his work generally focuses thematically on the history of Colonialism and the African Diaspora with a further emphasis on labor practices and violence.

These pieces are acrylic on canvas.

Parsons Close Project (Spring, NY) Showed Work By Steve Cohen At Aqua Art Miami 2018

12/20/2018

Adam's Rib

Parsons Close Project (Spring, NY) showed work by Steve Cohen at Aqua Art Miami 2018.

Parson's Close Project is the brainchild of Cohen and Curtis Richard Cox. Both were artists working in different disciplines and they combined to form the project.

These mixed media pieces from Cohen but there were also paintings from the artist that you can see HERE.

There are whiffs of Hieronymus Bosch in these particular works.

The Young Acrobat

FF-1051 (Los Angeles) Gallery Showed Work By Elena Stonaker At Aqua Art Miami 2018

12/20/2018

Bones Become Flowers

FF-1051 Gallery (Los Angeles) showed art by Elena Stonaker at Aqua Art Miami 2018.

Stonaker is a designer and artist based in Los Angeles.

This piece is acrylic on canvas but Stonaker is more known for her "wearable artwork" (aka...clothing) and sculpture. She also produces some fantastic pieces based on quilting. Her work is contemporary and forward looking so there is something touching in her use of an art form our grandmothers employed.

Find out and seem more at elenastonaker.com.

Skip Hartzell's Astounding, Dog-Centric Art Shown At Aqua Art Miami 2018

12/19/2018

Afraid

Skip Hartzell's astounding, dog-centric art shown at Aqua Art Miami 2018. Skip Hartzell Gallery is located in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Hartzell has been a teacher, fine artist and illustrator. It should suprise no one that he is also a dog lover. The paintings are unique, personal and canine-centric. the dogs are the stars. These pieces also drip with empathy and love for man's best friend.

Every single dog lover I know who attended Aqua 2018 mentioned his work to me. Some lamented they couldn't buy a piece right now. Good news is, you can find out more HERE and buy a work at your leisure. All the paintings here sell for $2500 and the individual Wall Dogs for $300 (the entire installation is $9300).

Alone and Landscape with Dog

33 Wall Dogs

Dog in Landscape