• (Un)Masked: Adriene Hughes

    Emerging photographer Adriene Hughes explores the process of self-definition and the relationship between humans and our most primitive instincts in her series deer/woman. In this series, Hughes turns inward, to her personal battle with cancer and the effects it has had on her identity. In...
  • (Un)Masked: Wangechi Mutu

    Kenyan born and raised Catholic, artist Wangechi Mutu’s own experience of self-definition in America’s male-driven and predominantly white culture has allowed for greater awareness to constructions of identity. Her collage series “History of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors” responds to...
  • Child's Play

    Child’s Play relives the childhood experience of unfiltered expression through artistic techniques, styles, and content. Using what initially appears to be “bad” painting, the featured artists capitalize on the accessibility and familiarity of elementary art making to address larger personal...
  • (Un)Masked: Brian Bress

    Artist Brian Bress, born in 1975 in Norfolk, Virginia, combines his passion for two-dimensional painting, interest in three-dimensional sculpture, and fascination with film art to create collage-like videos that appear fantastical, experimental, psychedelic, and performative, all at the same time....
  • Child's Play: James Rielly

    Painter James Rielly bewilders viewers by disorienting and distorting expectations of childhood innocence. Painting with a certain level of childish, or untrained technique, Rielly’s paintings exhibit ironies of sexualized desires and “eroticized anxieties.”[1] Hardly overt in...
  • (Un)Masked: Zeng Fanzhi

    Between 1994 and 2001, Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi painted his socially pertinent 'Mask' series, visualizing the ways in which humans interact and form relationships within the public sphere, and the imaginary masks people wear to conceal their private identity to conform to societal standards....
  • (Un)Masked: Adriene Hughes

    Emerging photographer Adriene Hughes explores the process of self-definition and the relationship between humans and our most primitive instincts in her series deer/woman. In this series, Hughes turns inward, to her personal battle with cancer and the effects it has had on her identity. In...
  • (Un)Masked: Wangechi Mutu

    Kenyan born and raised Catholic, artist Wangechi Mutu’s own experience of self-definition in America’s male-driven and predominantly white culture has allowed for greater awareness to constructions of identity. Her collage series “History of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors” responds to...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Child's Play

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Child’s Play relives the childhood experience of unfiltered expression through artistic techniques, styles, and content. Using what initially appears to be “bad” painting, the featured artists capitalize on the accessibility and familiarity of elementary art making to address larger personal and social topics. The artists engage in energetic mark making or incorporate juvenile materials to...
Painter James Rielly bewilders viewers by disorienting and distorting expectations of childhood innocence. Painting with a certain level of childish, or untrained technique, Rielly’s paintings exhibit ironies of sexualized desires and “eroticized anxieties.”[1] Hardly overt in representation, Rielly’s paintings reverse roles of adults and children to hint at social disorder and collective...
Philip Guston’s extensive career, spanning from the 1930s to 1980, evolved through a number of stylistic transformations. Guston began working as a figurative painter in the 1930s, but his artistic inspiration subsequently stimulated a reconsideration of his work, turning towards abstraction in the late 1940s as part of the abstract expressionist movement. And in the 1960s, marking the final phase...
Nicola Tyson paints amalgams of distorted body parts and colored shapes, creating mutilated zoological beings. Tyson’s paintings are engrossing, painted imagined beings with vivacious color float in undefined spaces of mono- or dichromatic backgrounds. As described in an exhibition catalogue for her exhibition at the Kunsthalle Zurich, “anatomical normality becomes a rarity, childish timidity evokes...
Born in the 1970s Daniel Coombs, known to some as Dan, has masterfully invented a new language within the conversation of bricolage. Much of Coombs’ previous work was primarily sculptural, unifying kitschy gadgets and amputated toy limbs then splattering this newly fabricated construct with paint to animate its presence--the comparison to Rauschenberg or Oldenburg is almost unavoidable. Similar...
Los Angeles native David Deutsch has a history in landscape painting, however his recent shift towards more abstracted scenes of driving cars and family houses offers a greater impression of movement, beyond our perceived reality. His painting style has become loose and gestural, offering an energy “like a Dionysian outburst, an orgy of painterly pleasure"[1] that appears to come from an intuitively...
Gary Hume, a member of the YBA (Young British Artists), gained artistic recognition in the early 1990s, having graduated from Goldsmith College and showed in Damien Hirst’s exhibition Freeze, both in 1988. As a member of the YBA, Hume exhibited art that presented a shock value. He simplified color and form significantly, reducing his subjects to a few potent hues. This drastic simplification renders...
Born in Rochester, NY in 1927, John Ashbery is best known as a poet, secondarily as an artist who began creating collages as more of an enjoyable hobby than profession. It was not until age 81 that Ashbery held his first solo exhibition. Yet both creative outlets dually influenced each other. Ashbery’s poetry, as described in Modern Painters “is renowned for its chatty obliqueness, and for its surreal,...

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

(Un)Masked

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(Un)Masked explores new ways to imagine identity; rather than through literal representations of the self, this exhibition examines the hidden self, the masked self. (Un)Masked addresses issues of race, gender, and nationality to communicate larger issues within our current socio-political climate. Featuring contemporary work, this exhibition combines video art, collage, painting, and...
Between 1994 and 2001, Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi painted his socially pertinent 'Mask' series, visualizing the ways in which humans interact and form relationships within the public sphere, and the imaginary masks people wear to conceal their private identity to conform to societal standards. Initially a means to express Fanzhi's personal emotional distress, the artist's 'Mask' series evolved into...