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artists, daily fix, exhibitions
Matt Connors
Open Tuning, 2008, Oil and colored pencil on linen
© Courtesy of the artist and Canada, New York
Matt Connors
Enjambment
March 13 - April 20, 2008
Thursday March 13, 2008
CANADA 55 Chrystie St (between Hester & Canal), NYC NY 10002 212-925-4631
The language employed in Matt Connors paintings is (among other things): color, soft geometry and inspired, yet muted paint […] -
artists, daily fix
Ho-Sup Hwang
Ho-Sup Hwang
http://artnewsonline.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/ho-sup-hwang-2/ -
Texts and Sources, abstraction, artist writings
Controverisal Discussions of Abstraction
TEXTE ZUR KUNST
March 2008 / Issue No. 69
In cooperation with Sven Lütticken
“ABSTRACTION”
http://www.textezurkunst.deInvestigating “Abstraction” both as visible form and as hidden social structure, both in artistic practices and in the increasingly “culturalized” economy in general, the contributions gathered in this issue attempt to go beyond established critical and art-historical parameters by exploring and exploiting — rather […]
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artists, daily fix
Sauman Choy - Hong Kong
Sauman Choy
Fallen Angel
2007
Oil with Gold Leaf
40″ x 30″
www.saumanchoy.com
Ever since I was young, I was fascinated by the beauty of this experience and wanted to recreate it through art. These paintings are the attempt to capture those fleeting moments. I’m aware of the vast expansive quality these feelings and have come to realize I might only […] -
artists, daily fix, exhibitions
Il Lee - Asian Contemporary Art Week New York
Il Lee
BL-081
2006
Ballpoint pen on canvas
99 x 86 inches
Il Lee’s ballpoint pen works on paper and canvas are innovative, forward looking, and historically grounded. Using ballpoint pens, Il Lee creates intimate to large-scale blue and black ink on white paper drawings and large format, subtly colored works on canvas. These works are contemporary and clearly reference […] -
Events, exhibitions
Asian Contemporary Art Week New York Begins
Tie Ying. The Long March 01, 2006.
46 NYC MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES JOIN TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART SATURDAY, MARCH 15 TO MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2008
Over 100 artists will present their works at 60 special events at 46 museums and galleries during the fifth Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), March 15 to 24, featuring receptions, […] -
artists, daily fix, exhibitions
Valerie Jaudon
Valerie Jaudon
Antonym, 2008
oil on linen
72 x 72 in (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
An original member of the Pattern and Decoration group, Jaudon for the past thirty years has been part of the larger post-minimalist movement—a varied and influential collection of artists who have expanded the vocabulary of minimalism, and in doing so have pushed the boundaries […] -
artists, reviews
Directions - Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman’s B, 2007,
courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
Directions—Amy Sillman
Third Person Singular
March 13, 2008 - July 6, 2008
Brooklyn-based painter Amy Sillman introduces an entirely new body of work as part of the Hirshhorn’s ongoing “Directions” series. Inspired by first-person observation of the human figure and the emotional aspects of being […] -
abstraction, reviews
The Indecisive Image or just plain tired of documentation
A detail from Marco Breuer’s Untitled (C-498), 2004, made with scratched chromogenic paper.
COURTESY VON LINTEL GALLERY, NEW YORK
In pictures of ethereal specks and kaleidoscopic explosions of color, photographers are embracing abstraction
by Eric Bryant (excerpt from artnewsonline.com)
In Marco Breuer’s recent photographs, black specks dance across a white surface, leaving faint trails that mark the passage of […] -
artists, daily fix
Jane Booth
Jane Booth
Swimming Series - Buoy
Acrylic on canvas
Size: 60″ x 48″
www.janebooth.com
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