Tag Archives: figurative painting
Charlotte Leadbeater
I have always loved drawing directly from my subject, particularly figures in movement, portraits, and dramatic landscapes. I like wild, dramatic places and watching athletes and dancers at the peak of their fitness. I work with mixed media using torn paper, acrylics, and oil pastels, but love working purely in oils too. I love the […]
Beverly McIver at Betty Cuningham Gallery
Within the paintings of Beverly Mclver you can always find an abrupt tension between the faces of her subjects and the objects that accompany them. In the self-portrait, Eyes Wide Open (2013), McIver utilizes a diptych to illustrate a moment where her eyes are closed, and when they are gaze directly at her viewers. A […]
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 […]
