January 17th, 2017 · 2 Comments
I found Patricia Hagen’s stylized landscapes, seascapes actually, in one of my favorite art publications, New American Paintings issue #127. Quite simply I like the artist’s crude, dark outlines and thick wavy lines of sky, water and land. There is an innocence in these works – as if seeing the world through the eyes of a child who has reduced a complicated landscape into a simple, understandable lexicon. Hagen has an MFA from California College of the Arts and resides in Seattle.
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Misha Kligman’s series Without appeared in New American Paintings 119. Kligman, of Kansas City, Missouri, describes his work as “at once brutal and serene.” Personally I see more serene than brutal in these paintings.
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Wendy White, who lives and works in NYC, has described her style as “retro yet futuristic, inherently urban, reactive and rebellious, but also humble and DIY.” White’s paintings are inspired by the frenetic pace and oft-changing landscape of the artist’s home in Chinatown.
“There’s a great deal of bravado in her art, and sometimes a kind of frantic energy, but also fragility, self-consciousness and doubt… The painting’s repleteness seems all the greater for their ability to encompass emptiness.” – Barry Schwabsky, Vitamin P2, Phaidon, 2011.
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via New American Paintings
Amze Emmons is featured in the latest New American Paintings (98). I love the large swaths of negative space, and the pops of bright colors that act as a reminder of hope in the otherwise dismal landscapes.
“For several years my artwork has begun as an investigation of images found in documentary sources… I start with clippings depicting refugee camps, wreckage left after receding floodwaters, car bombings. Through erasure, drawing and collage, visual connections between disparate events form and something new emerges.” – Amze Emmons, NAP 98
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February 5th, 2012 · 6 Comments
I first saw Andy Curlowe’s work in New American Paintings Issue #89 (Mid-West) and checking up on him now, I’d say he’s still doing some pretty great work.
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November 9th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Carrie Marill via New American Paintings #96. An Icon Is Both A Mirror And A Riddle is a series based on Persian and Indian miniature paintings. Miniature paintings absolutely fascinate me, especially when juxtaposed with modern subjects.
I chose to use these historical techniques to re-contextualize current events, and explore media information and assumptions about the Middle East. – NAP #96
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