Author Archives: mauri
Davor Vukovic: Adriatic Wonder
By Abraham Lubelski If you’re brave enough to enter into a world where objectivity is replaced by raw emotion, then feast your eyes on the works of Davor Vukovic. Visceral in their application of layered abstractions, paintings full of vibrant color confront the viewer. Vukovic’s work seems innocent at first. The vibrant color and free […]
Bushwick Open Studios Preview!
Today being the first day of Bushwick Open Studios, we hope that you are all out there visiting the galleries and studios of the 600+ shows that are happening this weekend! When the event started in 2006 it was organized on a volunteer basis by some of the fifteen local artists and community organizers that founded […]
Paul Delvaux at Blain-DiDonna Gallery by Tony Zaza
While other fine arts venues continue to exploit the unwashed and uneducated, Blain-DiDonna Gallery continues to offer opportunities to re-examine artists whose work reinterprets our notions of the nature of artistic expression, while at the same time preserving their integrity and mystery. Following their stimulating Hans Arp show comes the enigma of Paul Delvaux, whose […]
Performing Writing and the New Genres
NY Arts recently got in touch with two writer/poets and art theorists Amir Parsa and Ammiel Alcalay. In a fascinating roundtable, the two discuss world literature, interactions between art and literature, the Lebanese poet Nadia Tueni, and the nature of formal innovation. Amir Parsa: Ammiel Alcalay, two of your books have just been published. If […]
Yuria Okamura
Through my work, I explore the duality and the unity of physical and metaphysical worlds. I make an inquiry into the meaning of our existence from different perspectives including animist beliefs, religion, spirituality, and science. I incorporate images inspired by religious architecture, animal totems, landscapes, scientific illustrations, and geometric shapes; through which I aim to […]
Martin Pawera
I think that from the very beginning of my painting I was interested in people, in all of them milling around. I liked looking into their faces, trying to read them like in the books I’ve always loved. It’s just like one poet and journalist wrote about me and my work – I’m a painter […]
Bente Helmersen
My watercolor paintings are a combination of floating pigments and strict, more solid elements. The light atmosphere this creates exposes my mindset of the changing light in the landscape of the Lofoten Islands in Norway, where I was born and grew up. In wintertime there is almost no daylight, But the light that is left […]
Vessels at The Horticultural Society of New York
Vessels: Nicole Cherubini, Francesca DiMattio, Brie Ruais, Beverly Semmes, and Betty Woodman. The Horticultural Society of New York – a growing community of urban gardeners who strive to maintain the relationship of plants and people – gives hospitality to an exciting group exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculptures by five New York-based female artists: Nicole Cherubini, Francesca […]
Brian Morris Gallery: Genius of Love
Genius of Love, curated by Jason Stopa, brings together a group of contemporary painters. Many of these works, both abstract and figurative, relish in hybrid painting techniques. Using varying approaches, the works allude to painting as love. Genius of Love includes Rick Briggs, Jaqueline Cedar, Farrell Brickhouse, Shara Hughes, EJ Hauser, Emily Noelle Lambert and Andrea […]
Don Voisine at McKenzie Fine Art
McKenzie Fine Art presents work by Don Voisine, best known for his hard-edged oil abstractions on wood panels. The compositions are muscular and elegant with rich surfaces, nuanced black tones varying from piece to piece. Working within a characteristically narrow structure of compositional elements, Voisine is able to squeeze an unbelievable amount of mileage out […]
