Sunday, August 8, 2010

Xul Solar



Argentine artist, Xul Solar has created work ranging from painting to sculpture. His palette is whimsical and his forms abstracted. These forms refer to both architecture and the natural world.

Jose Bedia




Jose Bedia creates installations that integrate painting and sculptural objects. He uses the dark silhouetting of beasts and figures that dominate the canvas or the space. Their seems to be a strong spiritual undertone to his works.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Philip Guston



Expressionistic paintings integrating narrative, object and figure. Really quirky and sad...

Progress 8/7

I just finished up and titled about 9 ?of the 11 paintings that I started in this summer class. I derived the titles from both my original ideas and the final product. I am working on getting them all photographed by a semi professional photographer (my lovely roommate) in exchange for a work on paper.
Here are some of the titles I am toying around with:
Trilobite´s Dream (Persistence of Memory)
Someday the Moon will Rot Too
The Family
Two is Company
What Doesnt Kill You Will Give You Neurosis
Buying Time
The Search
Feeling In Need (You can touch my spine)
Permanent Impermanence

Images to come!

Friday, August 6, 2010

Thomas Nozkowski




Thomas Nozkowski paints highly abstracted compositions. The forms are simplified and often patterned. These patterns are not arbitrary but precisely arbitrary. Together this sense of organized randomness forms quirky images.