Author Archives: mauri
Subverting Deadly Materials: The Work of Jesse Sugarmann
A recent Facebook comment on the artistic validity of a social practice project made a snarky case that war could too be considered art, due to its impact and sublime scale. If one took up this misguided thought experiment, then an elaborating context could be the rhetoric of Italian Futurists. As they posited, the tools […]
Charles M. Williams
This painting is about the last days of my father’s misunderstood struggle with Alzheimer’s. The Green Chair was his favorite place to sit when he was “aware.” It also represents the universal place in which victims of this terrible disease find themselves. It is their familiar place when they are capable of settling down […]
Malow
Painting links me to the world and represents the mean to communicate my emotions and feelings. It’s a silent language ignoring bounds and borders, bearing signification beyond words because true communication goes through silence. I claim lyric abstraction as a style, out of bounds and within freedom and creativity. Oil is my medium because of […]
Report from Boston, Fall 2013.
Some meaningful statements on painting are being made in Boston this fall. At the Institute of Contemporary Art is Expanding the Field of Painting, highlighting works from the ICA collection that challenge the orthodoxy of traditional materials, subjects, and techniques of the genre. While challenging the orthodoxy of painting’s, well, everything has been going on […]
Basha Maryanska
My Art is in constant motion. It is a motion. My creativity floats and expresses energy and movement. My painting is like a mirror of my Soul. The inspirations come and go, my spirit dances with colors. Where do these images come from? I have no answer. It comes from within, but before the painting comes out of me I feel like a channel. I […]
(de)constructions at Backslash Gallery
Showcasing four artists who hail from four different countries; Belgium, The Netherlands, The United States, and France, Backslash Gallery has put together a cohesive show of artists working in similar veins but from different parts of the globe. These artists use codes and forms centring on the theme of construction and deconstruction. Populating the gallery […]
Trí at J. Cacciola Gallery
Trí explores the differences and interconnections of 3 artists working in Ireland today. Tom Climent, Suzy O’Mullane and Marty Kelly are all highly respected figurative artists from Ireland. For the three artists their work emanates from the figure, whether they refer to the art historical markers or whether they use the figure to illustrate ideas, […]
BRIC Housewarming
This inaugural exhibition at BRIC House will act as a celebratory “housewarming” of the new gallery, as well as an exploration of notions of home from broad vantage points. The exhibition will feature the work of 12 Brooklyn-based artists who work in varied scale and with varied artistic media, exploring the idea of “home” as […]
Choukry Benmansour
In communion with nature, I paint Fuschias and Dead leaves, I go from the Sahara to the Depths of the ocean. Yet, nothing in my work takes me away from semi-precious stones: colors, veins and light evoke the original source of my painting. “Mystery or mysticism … my work seems abstract,” only at first sight. […]
