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April 30, 2013, 8:30am
In the Studio: Process of a Painting with Erin Murray
Erin Murray’s (NAP #69, #98) oil paintings have a way of making the everyday environment feel surreal, fluid, informal, and in flux. Regular land- and cityscapes are painted to feel slightly off, making the viewer feel faintly uneasy compositionally, yet vaguely at home geographically.
April 29, 2013, 8:30am
Unpacked Cargo: Mary Iverson Inside and Out
Shipping containers have a strange relationship to the city of Seattle. Their accompanying series of orange and white cranes frame our skyline as highly visible but distantly silent landmarks. With imported products from Asia on the rise and easier movement across the Arctic Ocean due to climate change, the ever-larger stacks of building block-like crates and their colossal vessels that once seemed to be background noise for the city have become poignant emblems of the present. Washington artist Mary Iverson (NAP MFA Annual 2001) was ahead of the game on the relevance of the shipping container, interjecting it into familiar natural landscapes in her paintings and public art for years.
April 25, 2013, 8:30am
In the Studio: Process of a Painting with Matthew Bourbon
Matthew Bourbon (NAP #90, #102) creates a wonderful balance in his paintings – he fills organic shapes and figures with loud, bold, geometric shapes. Rather than seeming meddlesome or intrusive, though, these shapes look and feel quite at home in the spaces they occupy.
April 24, 2013, 9:15am
New American Paintings West Deadline Reminder
We are already nearing the deadline for our West competition which is April 30th, Midnight (EST). So, if you reside in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, or Wyoming, now is your chance to apply to New American Paintings. We are thrilled to have Veronica Roberts, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Blanton Museum of Art, as our 2013 juror. We'll be posting more about Veronica in a few weeks, so stay tuned.
April 23, 2013, 8:30am
New American Paintings News: Book Delay
We are sorry to report that due to shipping problems beyond our control, Issue #105 will not be on newsstands until Tuesday, May 7th. Subscribers will be mailed their copies on Thursday, April 25th. Thank you for your patience!
April 22, 2013, 8:30am
Painting Restraint: Julie Alpert’s Boundary at SOIL
Seattle artist Julie Alpert has a penchant for pushing ideas between the second and third dimension. Her installations often merge large scale, graphic murals with physical objects to create immersive, painted mashups that exist somewhere between contemporary surrealism and a utopic built environment. In her newest set of watercolors at SOIL, Alpert distills her hyper-saturated scenes into seventeen modest paintings that stretch and contract within their postcard-sized confines. The painted mounds seep across their surfaces, building an intricate collision of techniques and mediums within the smallest of spaces.
April 15, 2013, 8:30am
20 Paintings Shows You Must See In April
Our Publisher, Steven Zevitas, has narrowed down our April Must See List even further on the Huffington Post. After the jump, find out what he thinks are the top 20 painting exhibitions around the country.
Original Post can be found on the Huffington Post.
April 11, 2013, 8:30am
Barry McGee Mid-Career at ICA Boston
Very cool to have Barry McGee at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, just a few minutes away from us. Below is an article from the Huffington Post by the Brooklyn Street Art guys Jaime and Steven. After the jump see the entire post!
Barry McGee. Mid-career survey at ICA, Boston now on view (photo © Jaime Rojo)
April 10, 2013, 8:30am
MUST SEE PAINTING SHOWS: APRIL
April is another strong month for painting around the US, and the recent trend of solid shows by mid-career artists continues. Be sure to catch veteran painter McArthur Binnion’s first solo at Kavi Gupta in Chicago. Across town at Zolla/Lieberman, another Chicago-based artist, Phyllis Bramson, presents a new group of her hallucinatory works. In Los Angeles, emerging artist Rashid Johnson has organized a finely tuned exhibition of works by legendary Washington School painter, Sam Gilliam. Two artists who are firmly on my “completely under-recognized” list, New Orleans’ native, Jim Richard, and long-time University of Iowa Professor, John Dilg, can be seen at Inman Gallery in Houston and Regina Rex in Queens, NY, respectively.
April 09, 2013, 12:16pm
Veronica Roberts: NAP 2013 West Juror
We are happy to have Veronica Roberts, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art, as our juror for this year's West competition. As the juror for the West region, she will be reviewing works from artists living in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
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