Jeanie Gooden’s Paintings Are Abstract Graffiti

moray mair | Art and design | September 26, 2012

I love Jeanie Gooden‘s abstract paintings. She has a beautiful sense of colour, texture and balance, there’s a great sense of calm to her work. Like many successful artists she’s self-taught and being from Nashville was initially inspired by music. However it was to be visual art that was her calling and after working in galleries for years she eventually pursued painting as a full time profession. Her work is all about process and technique, the canvases painted, scraped, etched upon, stitched and glazed – she calls it abstract graffiti. The work an expression, a thought, a conversation between herself and the canvas.

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Eugenia Loli’s Collages Are A Cosmic Clash Of Ideas

moray mair | Art and design | September 26, 2012

Eugenia Loli‘s collages are a cosmic clash of sci – fi and vintage photos all juxtaposed to create new narratives that speak about injustice, social inequality and economic catastrophe, her work clearly inspired by sexual politics and the role of women in society. Before she turned to art Loli worked in the technology sector – in areas as diverse as databasing, artificial Intelligence and user interfaces – and this training has obviously influenced her creative process as every collage is digitally manipulated to be both precise yet look roughly hewn. She cites her creative influences as Magritte, Julien Pacaud, Banksy and Cur3es.

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Jason Shawn Alexander’s Expressionist Paintings Of Wonderful Portraits

moray mair | Art and design | September 26, 2012

Jason Shawn Alexander‘s expressionist paintings are always of figures caught in some existential woe, their exaggerated gestures and elongated limbs adding to the psychological drama of their situation. When I saw his work for the first time I was enthralled and went looking for more information. What I found out surprised me; Alexander started off as an illustrator and for many years worked as a comic book artist for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Oni Pres. How about that? Superheroes are a far cry from the intense canvases he paints now as are his influences; Francis Bacon, Anselm Kiefer, Kathe Kollwitz, Cy Twombly and Patrick Graham.

Alexander will be presenting his new solo show, ‘{SIC}’ at the 101/exhibit Contemporary Art Gallery in LA later in October and here’s what Sloan Schaffer, 101/exhibit founder, has to say about his work:

Jason’s work deeply penetrates immediately, directly to the core of integrity; often depicting figurative imagery, wretched in hyper-critical spaces — where mind, body and spirit hangs in the balance of existential woe.

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Alba Vilardebò’s Illustrations Of Maps Are Simply Wonderful

moray mair | Art and design | September 25, 2012

Alba Vilardebò‘s illustrations are wonderful, bright and breezy and her maps are alot of fun. Working with simple line and bold colour is never as easy as it looks and is often the difference between an average designer and a great one. If only Apple got her to develop their map app. Mightn’t get you there but it would be a lot more fun trying…

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Joram Roukes Paintings Are Wonderful Pop Culture Collages

moray mair | Art and design | September 25, 2012

Joram Roukes’ paintings of collaged images are a pop culture fusion of elements with everything from graffiti to comics, sport to film, clamouring for attention on his large canvases. At first his work seems humorous but underneath his comical characters there lies a dark forboding, the reflection of a decaying society. His characters seem to be frozen, forever in flux, morphing and mutating caught in a moral dilemna, a question that is never answered.
Rourke has this to say about his work on his site:

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Jeroen Erosie’s Collages And Design Work Is Conceptually Connected To Electronica

moray mair | Art and design | September 25, 2012

Jeroen Erosie‘s mixed media collages and design work is an amalgam of music, graphic design, conceptual art and graffiti. However, what’s most interesting about Erosie is that he’s an artist who co-runs his own independent electronic music label in the Netherlands, called 3024, along with techno DJ/producer and friend Martyn. While Martyn produces music Erosie illustrates and designs the record covers.

Like the electronic music that 3024 produce Erosie’s collages and designs are all about cut and paste, rhythm and chaos, abstract shapes all moved and effected by sound, full of broad strokes of colour. What he says about this aspect of his work is:

Doing the artwork for a wide range of producers is a nice way of looking for this Gesamtkunstwerk approach. In the end all of this is concentrated on this plastic disc with a piece of cardboard around it. I like this concentration of so many different backgrounds and mind sets. In this sense I think my approach matches Martyn’s way of working in that we like to keep an open mind in our creative process. We don’t stick to genres or conventions too much, but rather use different elements from different fields to play with. It’s interesting to see this alter in time – to see the evolution of music and its visual connection. And to see this all change once it’s pigeonholed or when it becomes accessible to a bigger audience.

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Souther Salazar’s Paintings Are Cosmic Dreamscapes

moray mair | Art and design | September 25, 2012

Souther Salazar‘s paintings are wonderfully rich compositions that pull your eye into a fantastical dreamscape in which hundreds of narratives are contained within a myriad of microcosmic worlds.

Many of Salazar’s characters seem melancholic, peaceful and secluded, getting on with everyday life in an overblown colourful world that is teeming with life. His process is very much intuitive, the pictures created in a stream of conscious. Regarding his process Salazar says:

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Danny Gretscher Paintings Are Energetic And Abound In Absurdity

moray mair | Art and design | September 25, 2012

I love Danny Gretscher‘s paintings. The Berlin based artists work is energetic, drawn from his street work, graffiti, and abounds in humour and absurdity. His pictures actually remind me of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings in their vigour, mark making, use of fragments of text and strange otherworldly figures. He also makes sculptures and installations both of which are as fun and engaging as his paintings.

Here’s what he says about his work:

At times I am visited by impulses from the depth of the universe that occur to me as emotions. I give a colorful garment to these sensations; sometimes drawing a few lines is enough to make them all of a sudden visible.

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Greg Lamarche’s Paper Collages Come Out Of The New York Graffiti Scene

moray mair | Art and design | September 24, 2012

Greg Lamarche‘s paper collages are borne out of his upbringing in the New York graffiti scene using strong graphic elements big, bright, bold colours. Lamarche uses found materials and commercially printed papers in his work playing with font styles, word fragments, multiple layers, colours, rhythm, perspective and movement, each piece of hand-cut paper a play between graphic design and art aesthetics.

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Patrick Hogan’s Solitary, Half Mad Photo Series Is A Dark Tale Set In Rural Ireland

moray mair | Art and design | September 24, 2012

Patrick Hogan‘s ‘Solitary, Half Mad’ photo series is a story about a man who lives in a wood. A fiction based on the very real fact that many people live on their own in rural Ireland. He spent over six months living in a small house on the edge of a forest in County Tipperary and over that time took pictures of rooms and places where people had lived and died on their own.

This project could have been completed from a distance, a separation from the subject and theme, but hogan lived alone during the project and the psychology of that time deeply effected his image taking – the capacity we have for isolation and the juxtaposition of the romantic ideals of solitude we yearn for and the actual hard reality of living in that situation.

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Jacob Whibley’s Collages And Assemblages Are Akin to An Obsessive Rearrangement Of The Office

moray mair | Art and design | September 24, 2012

Jacob Whibley explores interstitial spaces – the gaps and spaces between materials and structure – in his collages and assemblages. His geometric and organic forms suggesting acutely organised office and work spaces, obssessively looked after and arranged.

Most of the materials Whibley uses in these beautiful artworks comes from his own vintage paper collection, old books, envelopes, shipping forms, discarded ticket stubs and office bits and pieces. All of which he combines to create an aesthetic – shaped by colour, texture and form – that suggest topographical landscapes, organic forms, a strange sort of ordnance survey of a work station.

Looking at his work reminds me that I have boxes of discarded stationary, postcards, pencils, sketchbooks, scraps of paper squatting – for the last 10 years -upstairs in the spare bedroom. Perhaps I should do a Whibley on it? Take the boxes out and begin making again…

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Brett Amory’s Waiting 101 Paintings Are Sublime

moray mair | Art and design | September 24, 2012

Brett Amory is one of America’s most well known up coming painters. In this series, ‘Waiting 101′, Amory’s compositions focus on his relationship with new photo applications such as Instagram and the iPhone. As an artist who has always worked from photographs these new technologies are a departure for him. He no longer has to wait for hours to get the right shot, no longer has to do painstaking research. Now he has the ability to be more immediate, more fluid, more open. Apps have fundamentally changed his work and process. As he says himself:

With my iPhone, I always have a camera on hand. Iʼm able to capture what I experience day in day out. Every morning I wake up and walk to the café for a cup of coffee. On the way I see the same people following their own routines. New technology allows me to document these people as they go about their lives. Capturing the people I see in my neighbourhood on film and later on canvas, is really a documentation of what I do and see on a daily basis. This body of work aims to give the viewer a look into my own experience. Hopefully it opens up a deeper personal exchange between myself and the viewer.

Like his previous series Amory remains drawn to the lost, the lonely, the awkward and as the title suggests he delves into those moments when we are waiting for a new dawn, a new hope, a new possibility. They’re wonderful paintings and if you happen to be in San Francisco next month you can see an exhibition of his new work, ’24 Hours In San Francisco’ at The Sandra Lee Gallery, 251 Post Street, Suite 310, San Francisco from 4th October – 31st October, 2012

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Saddo’s Illustrations Are Bizarre And Grotesque

moray mair | Art and design | September 24, 2012

Saddo‘s illustrations are plain weird, strange, bizarre. I love them. Their grotesqueness. His love of the macarbre, of old fairy tales such as Hansel and Gretel, classic childrens stories like Alice and Wonderland and traditional Romanian folk stories. His work is dark and funny, monchromatic and colourful. He always keeps you on your toes, you’re never sure what he’s going to produce next. That’s the best thing about his work. He’s not happy in one singular style.

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Timothy Karpinski’s Illustrations Are Sweet

moray mair | Art and design | September 22, 2012

Timothy Karpinski‘s illustrations are sweet. Yes for sure. His colours subdued, verging on the pastel, those baby colours you often see kids dressed up in. And yes you’d be forgiven for being put off. However, his technique is interesting and this alone puts his illustrations into a different realm as it gives the work depth and texture. Simply put he uses a cut out layering technique – something he learnt when making graffiti stencils – as well as a pretty unique process which involves sewing painted paper together. He cites love, the environment, cats, flowers, the sun, the moon, skateboarding, gardening and children’s books as his inspirations and says about himself:

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Rick Finkelstein’s Dioramas Are Wonderful Cinematic Stills

moray mair | Art and design | September 22, 2012

Rick Finkelstein’s dioramas are cinematic stills, images of films gone by. They’re not as finished as some diorama artworks you’ll see but they have a charm, are psychologically rich and have a fervent energy, a fizz. Finkelstein was a criminal lawyer in a previous life and he believes his two careers have something in common:

A criminal trial lawyer does two things, he tells stories. And he also frames a case, decides what is included and excluded. He crops the story to only include certain information which does not reveal the whole truth. So too with photographs. They tell a piece of a story and exclude much other information which can only be imagined.

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