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Akikazu Iwamoto’s Secret Candy at Stux Gallery
Imagine this show as candy for the eye and, for those who quiver at the sight of the surrealist distortion of bodies, queasiness in the stomach. Hiroshima-born Akikazu Iwamoto, now forty, fills his compact solo show at Stux Gallery with wildly imaginative, candy-colored paintings and drawings that involve amusing and sometimes frightening bodily transformations. The […]
David Michael Bowers
Most people create a mask of respectability that other members of society see. These masks might fool the outside viewers and may even fool the individuals who create them. If you rip off the masks, the primal passions that control humans emerge from the deep recesses of our psyche… My paintings reflect my observations of […]
Eugenia Velis
I am a young Mexican artist, travelling in Sub-Saharan Africa for over 7 years, with the character Mikinemi, inspired by the famous Catrina, this offers a free space of overlapping imaginations and cultural experiences which allows all of us to arrive at our own interpretation of my experiences and so forth. Like Catrina, the original character, a traditional Mexican symbol, […]
Bastide d’Izard Armelle
A painter in love with light, beauty, good and just, Armelle Bastide D’Izard paints life. From her ladies in hats, to her farmers market scenes and landscapes of South of France, all her paintings vibrate. In her abstractions, she paints the world from within, bringing an initiatory journey to a hedonistic and positive spirituality. It […]
Marie-Anne Grandmont
Oscillating between techniques in the past has led me to combine traditional art with more modern techniques, creating the mixed media found today in my artwork. Art being the freedom of expression of the soul, I hope to express my profound and intense nature by the contrasts and intensity of my colors. I wish to […]
Christel Schmidt
I like to work with a brush, spatula, and my fingers. All the three paintings are made in this way. The base is of acrylic, above that I have worked with oil. I wanted to show my feelings in the art works, to mediate the danger and beauty of the mountains, and the love of […]
Maggie O’Neill’s Vibrant America
If Buddha and Obama had a baby, it might look something like one of Maggie O’Neill’s paintings. Born and raised near Washington D.C., this neo-impressionistic artist weaves together beautiful paintings that portray an appreciative, improvisational, and colorful perspective— one whose visual philosophy strikingly resembles that of Buddhism. When in the presence of her art, viewers […]
Acharya Vyakul, Chris Johanson, and Chris Corales at Adams and Ollman
The duty of policing the borders of what art is and who is an artist can be an uninteresting and hazardously mind-numbing task. But this year, when we witnessed the Venice Biennale’s Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) labeled the outsider or visionary Biennale, one does begin, despite herself, to ponder, “what does mark an image […]
