Art Hound

Serena Mitnik-Miller has an upcoming show, SWIRL, at Joshua Liner featuring these impressively-large scale watercolors. Serena’s work has an unshakeable serenity – a fusion of order and a lightness of touch.

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via BOMB.

How cool are these watercolors from Cheyenne Weaver’s Agar Sample Series? The artist provides a definition for Agar alongside the artwork: “this gelatinous material, an extract from red algae, is most frequently used as a culture medium, especially for bacteria.”  I  take it that these works are inspired by the colors and texture of agar, and are not actually made from agar. That would be cool too.

Cheyenne is a co-founder of Girls Guild – a community of artists and makers that offers apprentice-type opportunities for girls and women.

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Sarah Brenneman’s paintings are currently featured on Buy Some Damn Art meaning I’ve had the pleasure of spending a good deal of time going through her work. One of my favorite things about Sarah’s work is that her color choices are so bold and uncharacteristic of watercolors.  These pieces, all from 2010, show Sarah really pushing the limits of  the medium.

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Dawn Black’s work at Curator’s Office via New American Paintings. The characters in Black’s work are set on stage, actors playing out strange, surrealist scenes culled from the artist’s imagination.

“I am particularly interested in the various permutations of societal practices that engender power hierarchies.  The religious and ethnic nuances of power — who are the meek, who are the shameless, and when do the roles interchange?  Societal practices of masquerade, uniforms, religious dress, etcetera muddle conceptions of power and identity…” – Artist’s statement

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Holly Exley’s series Adding Machines via Creative Journal. If Brits call calculators “adding machines” then do they call refrigerators “cooling machine?” …Kidding.

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