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Anastasia Alexandrin’s Powerful Female Forms

Marc Londo — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:39:30 +0000

Anastasia Alexandrin’s style is unmistakable. Interlacing lines of charcoal and gritty overlays infuse her female subjects with an ethereal quality. Her masterful integration of line and tone within the framework of her narratives evokes nostalgia and introspection. But though her work reflects another time and place, nonconformist message speaks to a uniquely modern view of [&hellip

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Ode to a Coffee Shop

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:51:48 +0000

This is a personal essay to compliment my painting series: Ode to a Coffee Shop. The paintings were inspired by my daily trips to Dave’s Coffee, located in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Some of the paintings were featured in UCLA’s New Wight Gallery in a student exhibition. The small ding of the jingle bell attached to [&hellip

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Review: Samira Yamin’s “We Will Not Fail”

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:18:31 +0000

For almost a century, the cover of TIME magazine has featured iconic images of presidents, Wall Street moguls and modern day heroes. In her We Will Not Fail exhibit, artist Samira Yamin tackles one of TIME‘s most infamous cover page icons: Osama Bin Laden. Yamin’s exhibit is tucked into the main gallery of the Santa [&hellip

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Review: Dottie Attie at the Cantor Arts Center

Elizabeth Coleman — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:13:42 +0000

Dottie Attie is a postmodern appropriation artist, borrowing from iconic figure paintings from Old Masters such as Caravaggio, Eakins and Ingres. Suggestive or ironic text is incorporated into the compositions, which now seem provocative and sexually charged, forcing the viewer to think critically about gender politics in the art. The ambiguous juxtapositions critique class, privilege, [&hellip

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Interview with Amy Casey

Elizabeth Coleman — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:43:21 +0000

Amy Casey paints complex cities on the verge of collapse or destruction. Little box houses on stilts are stacked precariously up on top of each other, or hang by nets and rope above an empty void. Thin roads wind around the unstable worlds like ribbon. The paintings are devoid of inhabitants, as if some apocalyptic [&hellip

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Review: Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States

Julie Davis — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:58:58 +0000

The Gallery Wendi Norris exhibit, Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States, focuses on paintings, drawings and sculptures created between 1960 and 1979 by celebrated artist Dorothea Tanning. This is barely a glimpse of the full output of an amazingly prolific creator, whose career began with commercial illustration in the 1930s and eventually encompassed Surrealist paintings, [&hellip

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Interview with artist Sookoon Ang

Elizabeth Coleman — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:13:37 +0000

Singaporean artist Sookoon Ang has a gift for shedding new light on the same old stories of the human condition. Her work addresses the physical and metaphysical aspects of common objects and occurrences, finding poetic and sublime qualities in our ordinary existence. Highly talented in several different mediums, she creates sculptural installations, paintings, drawings and [&hellip

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Interview with blogger and embroiderer Amy Sheridan

Alison Kjeldgaard — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:24:10 +0000

These days, crafts once indelibly tied to older generations are coming back into style. Quilting, crocheting, knitting and embroidery are just a few crafts that have recently developed artistic niches. Artists, like Long Beach-based embroiderer Amy Sheridan, have revitalized these age-old artforms by injecting them with today’s cultural and stylistic trends. Unlike the traditional “Home [&hellip

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Review: “Interlace” at Traywick Contemporary

Elizabeth Coleman — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:57:01 +0000

When was the last time you meditated? The last time you took a moment for yourself to clear your mind of all the idle chatter and useless dialogue? The last time you focused on something other than your job, your to-do list or the current drama in your life? Dharma Strasser MacColl’s latest exhibit, Interlace, [&hellip

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Interview with Sculptural Artist Stacy Levy

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:15:58 +0000

In the initiative to increase access to sustainable energy, artists, like Stacy Levy, have joined the revolution. Though Levy works in many different mediums, she primarily considers herself a sculptor, interested in the relationship between both art and science. Levy works in sculptural media that portrays ecological patterns and processes. Her outdoor installations have been [&hellip

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