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August 15, 2012, 8:25am
2012 Northeast Competition Reminder
Now is the time to start applying to our 2012 Northeast Competition! If you are an artist residing CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, & VT, this one is for you!
The deadline is Friday, August 31 (Midnight EST)! Apply online!
August 14, 2012, 8:25am
Stacey Rozich’s “This Must Be the Place” at Chicago Urban Art Society
It’s not often that illustration succeeds in a fine art context, as illustration, didactic by nature, tends to be without the depth and subtlety we understand to be valuable in “fine art.” However, the illustrative practice of Seattle-based Stacey Rozich not only succeeds in the gallery, it thrives with narrative strength and a clear artistic vision that ranks her recent exhibition “This Must Be the Place” at Chicago Urban Art Society among the best exhibitions in Chicago this summer. - Robin Dluzen, Chicago Contributor
August 13, 2012, 8:30am
Painting the Fourth Wall: Pull at G. Gibson Gallery
The jagged, orange mass of Seattle painter Blake Haygood’s This Only Seems Abnormal that writhes through a fantastical meteor shower exemplifies the theme of G. Gibson Gallery group show Pull. Evoking classic scenes of the Millennium Falcon being overtaken by tractor beams and meteor showers throughout the Star Wars trilogy, the sensory experience of a gravitational pull breaks through the fourth wall of Haygood’s canvas, the center mass so outrageously oversized against the smaller pieces of matter that its heaviness radiates from the canvas.
August 10, 2012, 8:10am
Magic Eye: Op Art At Mixed Greens
“They may be cold, they may be as objective as a laboratory experiment, they may say nothing about the spiritual goals that have concerned great art of the past. But they are at least an art, or a craft, truly of our time,” John Canaday wrote in 1965 of MoMA's op art exhibition “The Responsive Eye.” Mixed Greens’s present show “Post-Op” (on view through August 17th) seems to second that thought for 2012, but this time, without the punch. Since being written-off by many critics, Op’s life has, for a while, popularly been linked more to drug culture andadvertising than the art world.
August 09, 2012, 8:20am
Guns, Art, and a Project by Ryan Carr Johnson and Samuel Dylan Scharf
There’s a long history of guns in contemporary art, from Chris Burden’s Shoot to Sophie Calle’s ballistic treatment of her lover’s letter in Take Care of Yourself to a myriad points in between. And the connection between guns and painting is no less direct.
August 08, 2012, 7:25am
Market Promise in Emerging Painters...What's the Deal?
"What's the Deal?" aims to provide artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts with an opportunity to hear the opinions of individuals that help run the art world. We have an amazing network of prominent art dealers and gallerists ready and willing to answer your questions. For our first "What's the Deal?" post, Heather Marx, Co-Owner, Marx & Zavattero, answers a question about identifying market promise in emerging painters. As always, we encourage you to share your opinion in the comments section.
August 07, 2012, 8:30am
Ten Must See Painting Shows: Summer 2012
Originally Posted on the Huffington Post by New American Paintings Publisher/Editor, Steven Zevitas
The heat has been turned way up on the East Coast, which is all the more reason to duck into a few galleries as you trudge through the city. As is typical for the summer months, a lot of galleries have mounted ambitious group exhibitions, many of which focus on painting.
August 06, 2012, 8:30am
NAP #101 Sneak Peek
Within the next few weeks the Midwest issue of New American Paintings, #101, will be received by subscribers and newsstands across the country. Publisher/Editor, Steven Zevitas, remarks in his Editor's note, "I have a feeling that this issue of New American Paintings might be a bit provocative to a portion of our readership on account of the ways it pushes the idea of what constitutes a 'painting.'" Juror, Lisa D.
August 03, 2012, 8:25am
Northeast Juror: Nina Gara Bozicnik
We are pleased to announce that this year's Northeast Competition juror will be Nina Gara Bozicnik. Bozicnik is the Assistant Curator at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, where she oversees Contemporary Connections, a project series featuring new work by early- and mid-career artists based in New England made in dialogue with the museum's collections, architecture, and institutional and regional histories. Bozicnik recently organized the exhibition Pretty Ugly: Deviant Materialism for the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, a multi-media show that explored the complexity of human desire and pleasure.
August 02, 2012, 8:25am
Looking at LA and Mexico: Two Group Shows, One City
Summertime in the gallery art scene often means a variety of group shows full of both new and established artists. Culver City this month is no exception. As I wandered from gallery to gallery, two shows that are just doors apart on South La Cienega really struck me, especially given their immediate juxtaposition and proximity to one another.
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