Archives for posts tagged ‘painting’

Chris Doyle

Chris Doyle Work from Unititled House Series. “A modest suburban house landscaped with palm trees and decorated with a pine wreath, a serene yet ominous in-ground swimming pool, a solitary abandoned lawn chair. Converting the unused white sheet into an empty landscape, Doyle creates a juxtaposition of personal place with the void, highlighting the anxiety […]

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Work from Overpainted Photographs. “A less well known aspect of the work of Gerhard Richter, the ‘overpainted photographs’ are not simply an answer to those who feared that photography had murdered painting, but an integrated work of material and colour. Countering the imposing format of his better-known paintings, these small overpainted photographs (mostly […]

Laura Wood

Laura Wood Work from the series Memories of Leda and Stay Awhile. ____________________ Memories of Leda “The motivation behind this work is an investigation into the image and perception. Despite the observations of Roland Barthes in the early 1980s, we tend to invest an uncritical faith in photography, accepting its documentation as an objective view […]

Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter Work from Green Pink Caviar Green Pink Caviar is up at Salon 94 in NYC until June 13. Amazing photo-realistic paintings that are a far cry from what I normally post, but what the hell, it is my birthday, literally. “Id and superego fight it out on the lush picture planes of Marilyn […]