Landscape seems to be the buzz word of the last twenty years. Paintings about landscape—whether they are the ethereal musings of Laura Owens or the gestural exercises of Dana Schutz—have explored what it means and what it looks like to be natural. Wisconsin-artist Sofia Arnold is following in the footsteps of both Owens and Schutz by making her dramatic paintings set in the lush, lascivious landscapes. View full article »
Archive for March, 2010
“Pictorial communication — signs, symbols, images and colors on a flat surface — is one of the oldest and richest of human inventions, like writing or music,” Roberta Smith wrote recently in The New York Times. Combining both abstract and figurative motives in his paintings, Derrick Buisch creates dynamic canvases which revel in real-world signifiers reduced and modified for the white canvas tableau. View full article »
The dress up masquerade of Cindy Sherman looms large in our contemporary minds. Melissa Cooke shares a similar process with this legendary photographer. Cooke wears props and costumes like Sherman, and she snaps the shutter herself. But, Cooke takes those photographs and turns them into large-scale drawings of her face and get-ups. View full article »
