All posts tagged: painting

Intuitively minimal with Yeachin Tsai

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Yeachin Tsai is best known for her rhythmic forms and decisive brush strokes made with a certainty rooted in Chinese calligraphy, and the infinite time and space dynamics of Chinese painting. She received her BFA at the National Taiwan Normal University and she holds a Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Yeachin Tsai mostly uses ink and fluid acrylic on paper, canvas, and fabrics. The supports of the paintings are prepared to be absorbent like rice paper, so the color soaks in rather than sitting on the surface. She generates tension with the intimate scale of the smaller paintings and their colossal internal energy. Her large scale paintings use big brushwork to draw the viewer in and then explode joyously with energetic color and invigorating mark-making. Her subjects cover both the visible, for example still life, and the unseen as abstract movements evoking inner activity and emotions. Now based in upstate New York, Yeachin Tsai has exhibited her work at such notable venues as the Painting Center in …

Into the Wild with Ellis O’Connor

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Ellis O’Connor is a Contemporary Landscape Artist from Scotland living on the Outer Hebridean Island of North Uist working in the field of painting and drawing. The dynamic energy to be seen in the paintings are Ellis’ response to observed changes in the landscape; ‘the movement and rhythms of the sea and the land … the merging of sea with air, advancing rain and mist, ever changing light – elements that seem to be about something intangible.’ In order to immerse herself in the environment, Ellis makes much of the artwork on site where extreme weather and the elements find their way into the pieces. Ellis describes the process of working outdoors in wild weather as almost ‘performative’. Some of the pieces made on paper on site become the basis for larger works on canvas painted back in the studio. Here, Ellis usually works with oil paint, building up the surfaces using natural substances like sand and dried seaweed. By producing the art work she hopes it will give people a chance to connect with …

Floating above reality with Fernando Gaspar

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Fernando Gaspar is seen as a self-taught visual artist. Born in 1966 in Portugal, he began his journey through the drawing and practice of watercolor. Fully dedicated to the activity since 1986, the year in which it began to participate in shows and prizes, and to exhibit regularly in the main art galleries of the country, exploring and adopting other supports, materials and techniques, he had his first solo exhibition outside Portugal took in 1995. There have been some National Prizes, collective participations and more than 50 solo exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. Over the years, the plasticity of Fernando Gaspar’s work has evolved towards an increasingly reflective and contemporary approach. So far, there are more than sixty solo exhibitions, some National Awards and representations in public and private collections in Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Canada, Brazil and United States. Fernando Gaspard has seen his works evolved towards an increasingly reflexive and contemporary approach , strongly marked by an assumed independence from current trends. Fernando Gaspar : The echo of …

“J’ai rêvé le Beau” avec le peintre vénitien Roger de Montebello

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Depuis « Venise la rouge » comme la décrivait Alfred de Musset, le peintre Roger de Montebello suit les traces des grands maîtres qui ont consacré leur don à la représentation parfaite de la Sérénissime. Explorant les liens entre la peinture métaphysique et le monde Méditerranéen, Roger de Montebello se situe à Venise, entre Orient et Occident, là où le cœur d’un Art en quête de sens bat au quotidien. Roger de Montebello découvre très tôt les lieux qui inspireront plus tard sa peinture : Venise, la Méditerranée, l’Espagne. Ses études l’emmènent à Séville où il acquiert les bases de la peinture à la faculté des beaux-arts, puis à Harvard où il étudie à la fois la pratique picturale et l’histoire de l’art. De retour en Europe, il ne tarde pas à se consacrer entièrement à son art. Ses voyages le portent souvent sur les rivages de la mer Méditerranée. Ses thèmes principaux sont les vues urbaines, notamment Venise, la corrida peinte sur le vif et le portrait. En 1994, René Huyghe, éminent spécialiste de la peinture …

Eugenio Recuenco, the painter of modern times

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Eugenio Recuenco was born in Madrid in 1968 and graduated with a degree in painting from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Pursuing photography, he began collaborating with fashion magazines such as Vogue Espana, GQ, View, Madame Figaro, Vogue UK, Vanity Fair and Kult in Spain and Paris in the context of campaigns for brands like Diesel, Wilkinson or Nina Ricci. Eugenio Recuenco produced his first advertising piece in Paris for Boucheron, and since has become one of the most highly sought after young artists in the advertising and luxury fashion industry. Eugenio Recuenco’s fresh take on high fashion is rich in cinematic drama and emotive impulse. With other-worldly narratives, his complex signature style uses elaborate handmade scenery and contains multiple references to art history and film. With a sensibility towards light and dark, concept and drama, his work is reminiscent and yet transcends the grand masters of Spanish classical painting like Goya, El Greco and Zurbarán. As a director, his elaborate, detailed and cinematic style have brought him much praise and won him many awards and …

Ian Rayer Smith, painting that makes visible the invisible

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Since graduating in 2013, british contemporary artist Ian Rayer Smith has been prolific in his creating and is establishing himself as a highly accomplished and award winning artist, who explores and pushes the boundaries of contemporary painting with his own unique expressive style. His work is highly charged with emotion, vibrant and energetic. Strongly influenced by the work of the abstract expressionists and the romantic light of the old masters, Rayer-Smith’s large oil and acrylic paintings effortlessly fuse abstraction, the figurative and the surreal. Ian Rayer Smith paints full time from studios in Manchester and in rural North Shropshire, England. Voted one of Manchester’s Top 10 Artists by Manchester Confidential and Winner of the 2014 Warrington Contemporary Prize, Ian Rayer-Smith has been hailed as one of the North’s artists to watch.  1. Do you consider yourself as an emerging artist in contemporary art? Ian Rayer Smith : I hope so. As a contemporary painter, I’ve been constantly experimenting and evolving to the point where I have now established my own artistic identity that validates me …

Painting is silent poetry with Betsy Eby

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In her paintings, Betsy Eby fuses the line between the musical and the visual composition. A classically trained pianist, she seeks in her work what Rothko described as “the place where music lives.” The layers and gestures of her paintings evoke musical spaces and rhythms while drawing on patterns found in nature. From her early childhood, musical and natural rhythms blended in Eby’s sensibility. She spent her first years of life in a small town on the Oregon coast, practicing at the family piano by the age of five. Today her work reveals that interconnected sensitivity: her delicate, organic compositions become synesthesias of sound and image. Painting with Fire features the artist’s recent paintings that utilize the technique of encaustic, which means “to burn.” The process is an ancient one by which layers of pigments, sap, and wax are fused together by the flame of a torch. Eby has slowly refined the technique to her own language, composing dynamic surfaces and deep, luminous spaces. Her abstract paintings incorporate a soothing palette and subtly reference wildflowers, …

Art in technicolor with Yashasvi Mathis

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Contemporary Indian visual artist Yashasvi Mathis is a self-taught artist whose unconventional art work flits between simple sketches, painting and digital media. Yashasvi Mathis is an illustrator and print designer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Knitwear Design from NIFT in Mumbai. She is currently exploring set design and working on her fashion illustration skills. Across her work there is a deep tension in the slightly contorted figures she depicts : her colorful work navigates between reality and fiction. Depending on the elasticity of our imagination, the layers in her work can take us far away. Yashasvi Mathis’ personal artworks are often led by a female protagonist and an audacious use of colors. They are usually about the universe of her mind.  Yashasvi Mathis produces a lot of fashion illustrations and also collaborates with various indie musicians. Her work has been published in New York based Unemployed Magazine, Elle India and 100% Sketchbook, among others. 1. Do you consider yourself as a figure of Contemporary Art ? Yashasvi Mathis : No, I don’t. 2. How would …

Colorful aesthetics with Cru Camara

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Cru Camara is a Filipino photographer born in 1994 and currently studying at School of Visual Arts in New York. Her early childhood was divided between Manila and her parents’ farm in the province where she spent her time wandering through the natural landscape. She started taking photographs in high school, following the end of her decade-long studies in classical music. Cru Camara’s work gives the chance to wonder what the story behind each photograph is. Her work leaves quite a lot to the imagination as very little elements are used to create each piece. Camara has a collection of unique photographs that capture the eye’s instantly with their fresh aesthetics that look like paintings. Her style utilizes colour and delicate clarity to produce pieces that will stand the test of time. She shoots stunning minimalist visuals, especially floral series where she plays with inversed colors and colorful neon lights. She’s very attracted to the idea of directly translating things from the real world into something that’s closer to her own expression of it. Cru Cama …