Tag Archives: A. Bascove
Educated Copyist: The Work of Jen Mazza
Jen Mazza’s latest paintings mix trompe l’oeil with the school of appropriation. Adding overlays of heavy punctuation marks and solid geometric shapes, they can convey the harmony of a duet, or the mischievous twist of black bars hiding the face of someone in a compromising position. The muted colors and meticulous details perfectly evoke the […]
Painting from Above with Yvonne Jacquette
With watercolors in hand, she was painting clouds from a window seat in an airplane. As Yvonne Jacquette relates her story, “Then the clouds rolled away and I had to face that gigantic spread of cities.” That aerial scene that we’ve all experienced, mysterious, remote, and voyeuristic, would come to define her life as an […]
The Land Before and After Time
Summer group shows are often a pleasant and decorative affair, like the non-demanding beach books of summer reading, but not this one. Dynamic and diverse, this exhibition is a bracing tonic of impassioned personalities and their abundant imaginations. It will be a pleasurable detour from your summer reading. Here are a few of my favorites: […]
