Created by Dave Rapoza Artist Dave rapozacommits Castlevania is one of my favorite exterior interpretations that I have seen. Simon Belmont – Castlevania – (link to Cook and Becker’s limited print below!) pic.twitter.com/12rmOlA7F5 -Dave Rapoza (@DaveRapoza) December 1, 2020 In his new work of art – available like an impressionRead More →
The role of an artist in the community and even in the world at large is to act as a mirror on humanity. Thanks to the keen eyes and listening skills of visual artists, they often spot patterns and traits that might otherwise go unnoticed. “Corrie Slawson: In danger”, onRead More →
Marci Spier, “Forget”, oil on gesso paper, 8.5 x 11 inches Courtesy of Ocean House Gallery & Frame As the October series of large gallery exhibitions come to a close and the November exhibitions wait behind the scenes to be set up, now is the time to attend a smallRead More →
For “Air”, Audra Wolowiec mounted loudspeakers on beams at one end of a gallery and dotted the three walls around it with commas. Photo by Joel Tsui, courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art Sound art is one of those amorphous terms that can confuseRead More →
?? Do you like Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn newsletter to get everything you need to know about Philadelphia, every day. The South Street Art Mart was only to last two weeks. At this point, the store has been selling artisanal goods for almost two years –Read More →
Benz’s big G takes on the allure of a toy for a custom project designed to inspire creatives around the world See 26 photos Mercedes-Benz partnered with the American designer Virgil Abloh to create Geländewagen Project, a contemporary design piece to help raise funds for a charity that supports internationalRead More →
The works of nine phenomenal artists are currently on display by the Arts and Culture Alliance at the Knoxville Emporium Center on Gay Street. This gallery will be open for viewing by appointment Monday through Friday during regular business hours, while Wednesdays will be open for viewing without an appointment.Read More →
For the past few years, on the first Tuesday in September, artists have hidden works of art all over Denver on World Art Day. This year, despite all the interruptions and cancellations in the creative worlds, Art Drop Day always takes place on September 1st. Denver Arts & Venues isRead More →
A REVIEW in London calling in 1949 asked how it was that unknown artists, schoolboys of the Cyrene Mission, had drawn so much attention to themselves: their exhibition in the galleries of the Royal Society of Watercolourists was packed for the whole fortnight that it was opened to the public.Read More →
Color, shape, texture, concepts and meaning can be achieved through a variety of mediums. Textile artists, through their chosen materials, have long held the strings of one of the most powerful and enduring vehicles to share visual research. “The Ardent Thread”, the current exhibition on display until September 5 atRead More →
” Change the world “ On display until May 2 in the Ringling Searing Galleries, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota; 941-359-5700; ringling.org The apocalypse is still a dark prophecy. In the depths of WWII, it looked like headline news. This war almost shattered human civilization. After the war, broken peopleRead More →
It’s an interesting time for visual artists. Like everyone else, we struggle to find a familiarity and rhythm in our everyday world that too often seems “just out of reach” to us. However, unlike everyone else, artists struggle and continue to work and share their life experiences with the worldRead More →
“A Field of Blackbirds”, by Abby Shahn. Photo by Kyle Dubay I needed to see art. Weary of the stress and social isolation of the pandemic, mourning our universal loss, I, like everyone else, was slowly trying to adjust to our new normal. Then came the double punch of theRead More →
“A Field of Blackbirds”, by Abby Shahn. Photo by Kyle Dubay I needed to see art. Weary of the stress and social isolation of the pandemic, mourning our universal loss, I, like everyone else, was slowly trying to adjust to our new normal. Then came the double punch of theRead More →
May 11, 2020 11:16 am Job : May 11, 2020 11:16 am Update: May 11, 2020 11:18 a.m. Beaver was one of four finalists for the new Riverfront Park artwork. SPOKANE, Wash. – A new piece of public art by a Washington artist may soon be settling in Riverfront Park.Read More →
Banksy has given fans a rare glimpse into his personal life by creating a room inside his own home. The famed anonymous artist, from Bristol, posted a series of images on Instagram of the artwork inside his bathroom. The five images depict nine rats – which appear to have beenRead More →
Placeholder while loading article actions Some journeys, such as religious pilgrimages, are sacred. Others, including trips to a mall or a chain of coffee shops, are insignificant or even profane. Local artist Jonathan Monaghan merges both types of excursions in his computer-generated videos. But at this point in history, perhapsRead More →
I guess we take our art where we can get it now. Whether it’s the Short North hosting a virtual Gallery Hop, the Wexner Center stepping up its “Off Center” initiatives, or the Columbus Museum of Art featuring the hashtag #myCMAathomeinstitutions and arts advocates continue to adapt to the stay-at-homeRead More →
“Common Sense; Portland, Maine” by Sheila Pepe, with “Swiss Bramble” by Carrie Moyer in the background. Photos of Luc Demers Militant art often has a bad reputation. The term can conjure up images of direct and brutal political protest, the loud and angry rebellion against the establishment that dominated theRead More →
ASALH: Black Muse 2020: On display until March 6 at the Art Center Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Free entry. 941-365-2032; artsarasota.org “ASALH: Black Muse 2020” presents the work of contemporary African-American artists from our region at the Art Center Sarasota. It is a multimedia exhibit, coordinated with theRead More →
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the Aurora by iFi Audio is one of the most interesting products I have tested. This is a premium all-in-one wireless audio system with auto-sound tailored to the room and a multi-driver setup capable of truly awe-inspiring volume levels – with the most muscular bass I’ve ever had. have neverRead More →
Click to enlarge In a solo exhibition entitled “Cities and Deserts”, currently at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery, Osvaldo Nitya Brighenti features paintings of landscapes, cityscapes and portraits. Some works represent distant places – Benares, India; Band-I-Amir, Afghanistan — with a hint of hazy exoticism; others, the familiarRead More →
Click to enlarge Jeb Wallace-embroiderer Axel Stohlberg Artist Axel Stohlberg finds endless inspiration in the standard shape of a house – a square or rectangle with a pitched roof. There is no need to read a deep philosophy in this choice, he said; in his work, the house represents whatRead More →
By RACHEL ROSENFIELD LAFO In the 1970s and 1980s, the fiber arts – weaving, textiles, tapestry, embroidery, knitting, crochet, sewing, quilting, etc. art category and were shown mainly in craft and design museums. As a result, artists who worked exclusively in fiber, such as Lenore Tawney, Claire Zeisler and SheilaRead More →
Marty fugate | Corresponding “Spectrum: a celebration of artistic diversity”: Until February 6 at the Lois & David Stulberg Gallery at Ringling College, 1188 Dr. Martin Luther King Way, Sarasota. Vernissage and artistic walk 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. 941-359-7563; ringling.edu/campus-galleries The visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum goesRead More →
For many years, Jerry Sanders overheard his mother and twin complaining that there were no art supply stores in Springfield. The two passionate and talented artists had to order their supplies from a house paint store. “And (the stores) would order when they wanted to,” said Jerry Sanders, 78. “SoRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Center Bca “Owl” The disconnection between humans and other living creatures is not a new theme, nor is the precipitous destruction of the planet by mankind. Along with scientists, philosophers, politicians and writers, artists have long approached the pride of people motivated more by profitRead More →
Fiona Waterstreet’s prickly “black and white bowl” might have been inspired by a seed pod – perhaps a sweet gum ball or one of the globes left behind by a datura flower. The bowl piqued my interest as it is a menacing and alluring outlier in Waterstreet’s first exhibition atRead More →
Click to enlarge Amy lilly View of the installation “Color Fields”, with Anthony Caro’s “Green Sleeper” in the foreground When Jamie Franklin became curator of the Bennington Museum in 2005, he began to connect with artist fields and living artists related to the mid-century heyday of Bennington College. Founded inRead More →
To the left : The Alley at Jas de Bouffan [The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan], ch. 1890, by Paul Cézanne. Oil on canvas. (City of Geneva, Museums of Art and History, Geneva. Previous deposit of the Garengo Foundation) Second from the left: The sea at L’Estaque [The SeaRead More →
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Local artist and South Bend Venues Parks and Arts Marketing Director Danica Kulemeka has created a piece of art that will hang at the new Howard Park Community Center. “I wanted to use something that represented the Earth, which is why I offered to work withRead More →
Installation “Continuum” by Grace Gennaro. Photos courtesy of the Maine Contemporary Art Center In the years leading up to its biennial with jury, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art organized exhibitions organized around a theme. “Temporality | The Process of Time ”is the second in the series. It tackles “currentRead More →
Sarah Fisher has produced several portraits of beloved Houston art collector Bill Lassiter, but “Delighted” is the only one she had to complete after her sudden death last February from a fall. It is one of a number of paintings in her exhibition “The Second Yes” at the Front Gallery,Read More →
DesignInquiry didn’t waste any space, even covering the four columns of a large interior gallery with media. Photo by Daniel Kany DesignInquiry’s “Futurespective” at the Maine College of Art’s Institute of Contemporary Art isn’t simple, pretty, or easy to digest. The sight can be overwhelming at first glance, if you’reRead More →
So how long does it take you to see an art exhibition, anyway? Do you linger in front of each canvas or do you cross the exhibition with your back? As there is no clock during a gallery presentation, you are free to set your own pace. But while it’sRead More →
Lives are unraveling. Families, friendships and countries fall apart. An artist, however, can piece together the threads in a way that reveals them in a new light. That’s what happens in Emma Balder’s first show in Houston, which features works painted with recycled yarns disentangled from textiles she collects. NotRead More →
Just as realism is frequently affected by the fantastic, abstraction is rarely total. Even non-figurative art is made of materials, and these materials often carry strong connotations. Art House Productions calls its new show abstract spirit forms, which suggests a private, insular experience, something calm, detached from the rhythms ofRead More →
Photo by Jayne Freeman “Create a culture of collector” It’s Friday night, a week before the next opening at the Deep Space Gallery. Jenna Geiger and her partner Keith VanPelt hunch over a macquete, or miniature model, from the gallery as they hang up the exhibit with tiny cutouts ofRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Fleming Museum of Art / Lightwork “Cloud” by Tommy Kha The title of the Fleming Art MuseumThis semester’s major exhibition, “Be Strong and Betray Not Your Soul:Read More →
“After the Show”, Roy Germon Photos courtesy of the artists I love watching Cove Street Arts trying to figure out what it’s going to become. It’s not meant to be critical. Cove Street is a massive space that’s far more stylish than any other art venue in Portland. It’s likeRead More →
A detail of one of the items from the Banksy store in London (all author images for Hyperallergic) LONDON – Banksy has always had a complicated relationship with the art market. His unauthorized street works deliberately challenge the idea of art as a tradable commodity, but often still ends upRead More →
We are at a point in our collective gallery calendars where Central Ohio art is front and center. In a New Light: Alice Schille and the American Watercolor Movement and Great Columbus 2019 (both on display at the Columbus Museum of Art through September 29) filled our summer with amazingRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Northern Girls “Late in the afternoon” A Hannah morris the painting is full of cunning. First of all, her designs are both paintings and collages, and it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Although they are trompe l’oeil, his piecesRead More →
Five years ago, 15 artists were chosen to reuse the rubble of the dismantled east span of the Bay Bridge. The Bay Area’s first public art project was unveiled on Sunday. “Signal,” a 25-foot steel ring, was built by San Francisco-based concept artist Tom Loughlin with three 12-ton girders andRead More →
Click to enlarge Amy lilly “Great Auk” by Gail Boyajian (left) and “Flow Thru” by Duncan Johnson The annual Art at the Kent Exhibition is one of the state’s premier arts events, drawing hundreds of people to its fall opening each year. The 2019 edition, entitled “reVision”, has developed fromRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Bigtown Gallery Piggy Bank by Liz Quackenbush In an article titled “Artistic getaways: four galleries worth seeing, “Art New England was recently named BigTown Gallery in Rochester, Vermont’s must-see gallery. The decidedly small town gallery, bordering the edge of the Green Mountain National Forest alongRead More →
Click to enlarge Howard Ursuliak | Courtesy of Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Installation “The name and the nameless” always. Just before crossing the Honoré-Mercier bridge towards Montreal, we see aRead More →
In an introduction to the catalog of the extraordinary exhibition “Darkness and the Light” currently on display at Maine College of Art’s Institute of Contemporary Art, guest curator and artist Lissa Hunter writes: “I use the terms, darkness and light, as nouns. , not adjectives. They have substance. We areRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History “Adirondack Faerie Lodge” It’s no surprise that Vermont is particularly welcoming to the Fae, if you know where to look. Queer oriented Fate of the fairy camp in Northfield in Burlington, artist Emily Anderson Bluebird Fairies annually FairyRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater “Collected Rooms” Visitors who think they will see dogs at “Guillaume Wegman: Outside In “at Shelburne Museum are in for a surprise. Pleasant, most likely. Certainly, many of the artist’s famous Weimaraners appear in the exhibit in various forms, capturedRead More →
Andy Curran, “Fleet at Fort Gorges” Photos courtesy of the artists Abby Johnston’s untitled photo printed on linen shows Fort Gorges from afar, largely silhouetted against the scalloped summer sky off Portland Harbor. The fort is seen from afar and the image looks like a daguerreotype – silver gray, flatRead More →
by Calder Circus. Photo: © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Treats roll out of the Whitney Museum of American Art like clowns out of a Volkswagen. Discover his reinstallation, on view June 28, of one of the most beloved, amusing and radical worksRead More →
Click to enlarge Amy lilly “Draft of a new harmony in a zippered dress pocket” Sam Talbot-Kelly is a multimedia artist with a particular interest in costume and fashion. Her work has appeared locally in Strut, the Burlington fashion show Southern art hops; in pop-ups at Salam clothing store inRead More →
The colors of the curry refer to disagreeable political groups in contemporary Thailand: red for rural activists, yellow for royalists, and green for the ever-ubiquitous military. Shannon Finney, Hirshhorn The graphite images on the pristine white walls of the gallery show images of pain and protest, death and march. SomeRead More →
“Amie Siegel: Medium Cool,” through October 12 at Blaffer Art Museum, 4188 Elgin (University of Houston); 713-743-9521, blafferartmuseum.org. The paintings in New York artist Amie Siegel’s exhibition at The Blaffer are marvels of illusion. They look like they could have been copied from brightly lit photographs of icebergs or geysersRead More →
A piece of public art contracted by OhioHealth for its new administrative office has been unveiled. The sculpture, titled “Beacon”, was installed in mid-May on the campus of the new administrative office, off North Broadway, just east of Olentangy River Road. Canneto Studios, who recently designed a hanging public artRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Galerie 77 “Worker Mandala” by B Amore Try inviting a dozen artist friends to submit a few pieces of their art and see what happens. It was so William T. Ramage made a first call to artists for the exhibition “70+: Gero-Transcendence” at Rutland’s 77Read More →
An assortment of abstract works by Henry Wolyniec in “Relief” at Speedwell Projects. Photos by Kyle Dubay / Courtesy of Speedwell Projects We tend to consider music as an art of harmonies. But, really, it’s about managing the dissonance. Without dissonance, there is no movement or development. Music and theRead More →
Nadine Robbins, ‘#Metoo’, 9″ x 12″ Greater Barrington— A deal too good to pass up: a new gallery in Great Barrington with easy parking outside the door and the best art in 413. Located next to Aegean Breeze on Stockbridge Road, Bernay Fine Arts hosts her second show of theRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Janet Van Fleet “The beginning” Central Vermont Artist Janet Van Fleet has often shamelessly referred to social, political or environmental realities in his work. Perhaps his sculptural works made of buttons don’t exactly call for revolution. But her use of mundane and found material isRead More →
“Taraxacum”, Nathaniel Meyer, 24″ x 36″, oil on canvas Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Moss Galleries I like paintings that burst. In fact, I love all kinds of paintings, including quietly meditative works. But paintings that jump out — the ones that jump out at you visually — are at theRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy picture “Hole in My Childhood” Upon crossing the front door, visitors to Studio Place Arts in Barre generally discover multimedia collective exhibitions with works hung on the walls or the ceiling, or perched on pedestals and plinths. Current example: “Deep Blue”, with works inspired by waterRead More →
This is the gesture many visitors to Las Vegas make when they walk down Las Vegas Boulevard for the first time. It may accompany the first sighting of a famous building or precede the landing of a harnessed alien jumping from a 1,150-foot-high tower. We’ve all done it – standingRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Harold Weston Foundation “Sunset over Baxter Mountain” Cobalt blue: This is the color Shelburne Museum painted his gallery for the current exhibition, “Harold Weston: Freedom in nature.” On the lower level of the Center for Art and Education Pizzagalli, the electrifying hue provides anRead More →
Ever since Jimmy LeFlore started posting images of his artwork on Instagram, his friend Jesus Toro Martinez has been pestering him to show them off. Martinez, who runs Lone Star Art Space, said LeFlore, public art manager for the city’s Public Art San Antonio program, fits perfectly into the gallery’sRead More →
After 30 years in business, Golf Art is holding its first ever Half Up Inventory Sale – including items that have never been on sale – to free up space for a collection of thousands of vintage magazines that the shop owner recently purchased and started framing to sell. PersonalitiesRead More →
Jhis year, Fred Meijer would have been 100 years old. Next year, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park will be 25 years old. They are in the midst of a huge expansion project, continuing to grow from the idea of having a small garden behind a new Meijer Thrifty AcresRead More →
“A place for everything and everything in its place.” It’s a proverb we knew long before Marie Kondo and her tidying up exhortations burst into popular consciousness. It’s also a saying you might keep in mind when watching double yellow linethe gallery-specific exhibition of works by Danielle Julian Norton atRead More →
Click to enlarge Photo: provided by Frizk The alleged Banksy painting (center) at the Contemporary Arts Center, hung among the works of “Mamma Andersson: Memory Banks”. World-famous art maverick Banksy may have left a mark on the Contemporary Art Center last month in the form of a half-peeled banana. ARead More →
The front display of the exhibit is interactive, with viewers encouraged to pull out title sheets that reveal a guide on the underside of each. A 1988 New York Times The obituary refers to Romare Bearden as “the nation’s greatest collagist”. The Charlotte-born artist’s impact on form is so immenseRead More →
It’s the season to buy other people things they may or may not want with money you may or may not have to spare. Purchasing large quantities of mass-produced goods during the holiday season is obviously what keeps the wheels of the industry turning endlessly, but a great way toRead More →
Click to enlarge Image courtesy of Galerie 77 “A Aimless Pilgrimage II” A visit to see “Aimless Pilgrimage”, an exhibition of paintings by Danielle Klebes at 77 Gallery in Rutland, becomes a pilgrimage in itself. Minus any religious connotation, it is a pilgrimage in the sense of a journey worthRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Gerald Auten “Tokyo in Los Angeles” Graphite generally suggests pencil drawings consisting of strokes and lines, but in “Gerald Auten: Graphite Insomnia “, currently playing at White River Gallery in South Royalton, the artist uses powdered graphite or graphite pencil to construct pictures in aRead More →
JENNIFER WEST/THE REVIEW Artist Jenn West may have been drunk while creating her art, but that doesn’t take away from their deeper meanings. BY BIANCA THIRUCHITTAMPALAM, COLUMN EDITORAND JENNIFER WEST, Senior Reporter Rarely has the work of an amateur artist been produced with as much attention to detail and intelligenceRead More →
IIt was in 1972. In the halls of the Oxford college of the poet WH Auden, an unexpected visitor arrived, the composer Benjamin Britten, who was preparing an opera on the short story. Death in Venice by Auden’s stepfather, Thomas Mann. The two great artists have not met for 30Read More →
Click to enlarge Photos courtesy of Helen Day Art Center / paul Rogers Photography “White Forest (Duna)” by Jaume Plensa On the lawn of Helen Day Center for the Arts, afternoon sunlight streaming through the trees stains “Intertwining”, adding a sense of movement to the already intricate sculpture. The weather-resistantRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Helen Day Art Center “Self-Portrait with Raspberry Sorbet” by Lee Price The place of the modern-realist portrait in contemporary art is generally considered neither major nor radical.Read More →
The new Riverfront Park has its signature piece of art, but where it will go is still up for debate. A near-unanimous Spokane Park board of directors gave its approval Thursday afternoon to “Step Well,” a $ 360,000 room designed by renowned artist and architect J. Meejin Yoon as partRead More →
In a dark room in the Brooklyn Museum, 39 ornate place settings, each representing a woman forgotten in history, are arranged on a triangular table. Colorful, domed plates – many of which are abstract depictions of female genitalia – are placed on hand-sewn, gold table runners. The table, measuring 48Read More →
Albuquerque artist Emi Ozawa’s ‘Follow the Line’ wooden sculpture and installation of works on paper at the Richard Levy Gallery is a wonderful incorporation of impeccably executed technique with dynamically correct lighting in a stunning gallery space compatible with the architecture. “Follow the Line” is a 20-piece exhibit that beautifullyRead More →
Nancy Hemenway Barton (1920-2008) lived in Maine for much of her artistic life. A concert pianist, working mother and wife of a diplomat, Barton was literally a socialite. She grew up in Massachusetts (summer in Maine) and attended Wheaton College. In the late 1940s, she lived in Uruguay and Argentina.Read More →
After about two weeks of waiting, the sheath was removed on Friday from a new public sculpture at IKEA Burbank that had raised a few eyebrows before its unveiling. Under the blanket was a 16-foot-tall abstract sculpture of a vase named “Bobble,” created by Christian Moeller, a renowned artist andRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Craig Mooney “Serenade at Sunset” Craig MooneyThe large landscape paintings are a brilliant antidote to Vermont’s November skies and the leafless boughs of stick season. Many of the 21 oil paintings in his solo exhibition at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery are reminiscent of longRead More →
Some people hold back their dreams because they are afraid to act. Somer Gardiner thought she had waited long enough. Gardiner, founder and owner of clothing store Olive + Tweed, recently opened her own art boutique, Timbre Art Loft. The store is located on what was previously the second floorRead More →
Click to enlarge A mother turns her back on her three young children as she searches the back of a car trunk for something out of sight. Behind her, one of her children circles a sign indicating the loading area, while her little brother tackles cracks in the sidewalk outsideRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Susan Calza “DON’T pretend,” “As humans we are so clumsy,” says Susan Calza, “[but] we also have this incredible influence. “In a recent phone interview, the artist from Montpellier shared information about her current exhibition,” DON’T PRETEND, It’s Ordinary Gold “at Axel’s Gallery & FrameRead More →
Cate Blanchett practically eats the camera lens in “Manifesto,” a feature film by artist Julian Rosefeldt that began life as an installation at the Park Avenue Armory exhibition in Manhattan. Blanchett plays 13 distinct characters who deliver various manifestos, and these range from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels preaching economicsRead More →
Rather than a distant, evaluative view, Mayhew’s is immersive: its fields of land, sky, and water fill the frame of the picture, alluring with the totality of nature. Like a portrait of her lover painted with all the hazy adoration you would expect, Mayhew’s landscapes are beloved places, steeped inRead More →
The audacity of beauty lies in its ability to take over our lives and stop time. During this moment we are suspended in a state of wonder that goes beyond contemplation to pure awareness, nerves, feelings and imagination fully open. Viewers can experience these moments frequently in “Over Time,” anRead More →
Frederic Koeppel | Special to trade call To paraphrase Sigmund Freud’s famous question, I will ask, “What does Roy Tamboli want?” I have watched his art for several decades and have written about it a few times. Each time I see his work, it seems different, sometimes radically, another expressionRead More →