
Archive For The “Painters” Category

Valerie Hegarty
Valerie Hegarty
Visual artist, painter
Location: New-York (US)
Valerie Hegarty is a Brooklyn-based artist who makes paintings, sculptures and installations that explore issues of memory, place and history. Starting with a personal inspiration, Hegarty seeks out poetic connections between her personal history, art history and current events. Hegarty relishes the materiality of her process, incorporating a range of materials such as canvas, wood, Foamcore, paper-mache, epoxy and ceramics.
Reverse archeology.
Hegarty’s large-scale installation work incorporates a process she calls “reverse archeology” in which layers of painted paper are adhered to the walls and floors of the gallery and then scraped back to create a material memory of a space. Hegarty’s canvases and sculptures that replicate paintings and antiques from early American art history are presented as ruined by devices associated with their historical significance. Although representational, Hegarty’s works contain surprising juxtapositions and uncanny transformations where materials and meanings are constantly shifting.
Website→ https://valeriehegarty.com/
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Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly
Visual artist, master glassmaker
Location: Washington (US)
Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was initiated into
glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington.
After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He then created the Glass program and taught for over a decade.
In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright scholarship, he went to work at the
Venini glassworks in Venice. There he observed the approach of the team
glassblowing, which is essential to his way of working today.
Painting & Drawings.
Dale drew and painted, a practice which intensified after an injury forced him to stop blowing glass in 1979. From then on, drawing became a distinct form of expression and a medium to develop the concepts he wanted to explore in glass. An avenue to harness and release one’s creative energy. His charcoal, pencil, pastel and watercolor drawings also serve as a means of communicating his ideas to studio assistants. Visitors to the NYBG exhibition encounter a suite of his drawings from the 1980s alongside glass works from the same period, offering insight into Dale’s creative process and his engagement with a variety of materials.
Website→ https://www.chihuly.com/
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Piotr Kotlicki
Piotr Kotlicki
Painter
Location: Łódź (Poland)
Born 1972 in Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland in 2000, diploma with Prof. Ryszard Hunger. Currently works at the National Film School in Łódź at The Film and Television Directing Department. His work is multimedia-oriented with an emphasis on painting and video. They have been displayed at: Ningbo Museum of Art (China). The National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Audio-visual & new media arts festival Madatac in Madrid (Spain), the MS Dockville Festival in Hamburg (Germany), the International Video Festival in Novi Sad (Serbia), the Sandhofer Gallery, Salzburg (Austria), the Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg (Germany), the Simultan Festival, Timisoara (Romania), the National Audio-Visual Institute Warsaw (Poland), Assembly Gallery, Poznan (Poland), NordArt, Büdelsdorf(Germany), Drei Ringe, Leipzig (Germany), Strzelski Gallery, Stuttgart (Germany). Awards: 2016 Grand prix Freedom of Form, The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, Poland; 2017 IV Piotrkow Biennal of Art, ODA, Piotrkow Tryb, Poland; 2014 Shortlisted for „100 painters of tomorow”, Beers Contemporary and Thames & Hudson, UK.
Website→ https://www.instagram.com/piotrkotlicki/
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Otto Zitko
Otto Zitko
Painter
Location: Vienna (Austria)
The thesis will be that of wanting to recognize a bit of architecture in Otto Zitko’s drawings and especially in his bedroom drawings. In a first part, he wishes to enter into the relationship between modernism and design and architecture. Then, secondly, retrace the inversion of this relationship between line and space in the work of Otto Zitko.
Paint a continuous line.
A line that Otto Zitko draws when he paints continues the line that the artist started long ago. With this line, he is “on the move”, like someone who follows nomadic principles. Like someone who literally traces a path in a labyrinthine network and follows it (respectively pursues and traces it). Like someone placing a two-dimensional lineament into existing spaces with expansive painting/drawing gestures, making them dynamic. Delimiting them and enriching them with an unsuspected depth that alludes to the temporal dimension.
Website→ https://www.ottozitko.com/
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Sage Barnes
Sage Barnes
Painter
Location: Kansas City (US)
A self-taught artist, Sage Barnes only learned to create from his own ideas, which is exactly what sets him apart. He found a unique combination of abstract, realistic and street art techniques, which are often separated. Many of her works feature a very realistic bodice. With an explosion of color instead of the front, painted against a graffiti-like wall. Her Instagram bio reads “school dropout,” potentially as a way to let people know that there’s no clear path to success. He also uses his Instagram as a form of connecting with his followers. Rather than just posting a work with its title, it will add a meaningful quote or share the story behind a work.
Website→ https://www.worksbysage.com/
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Colleen Barry
Colleen Barry
Painter
Location: New York (US)
Colleen’s paintings combine the rigor and sophistication of European masters with the power of contemporary art. His influences range from Michelangelo and Kathe Kollwitz to portraits of Andy Warhol. His subjects include family members, friends, fellow artists and his two children. A lifelong New Yorker, Colleen grew up immersed in the music scene of the early 2000s. At 21, she created paintings for film companies in New York and Hollywood. His work has appeared in major Lil Kim and Die Romantik motion pictures and music videos. In 2011, she received an Affiliate Fellowship to reside at the American Academy in Rome with her husband, Will St. John. She learned to paint by studying the old masters in European museums for 10 years. Colleen paints from her studio in East Williamsburg Brooklyn. She is currently the design director at Grand Central Atelier in Long Island City, New York.
Website→ https://www.colleenbarryart.com/
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Wilhelm Sasnal
Wilhelm Sasnal
Painter
Location: Krakow (Poland)
Wilhelm Sasnal was born in 1972 in Tarnow, Poland. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow until 1999, but before that he studied architecture for two years at the Polytechnic in Krakow. During his studies, Sasnal became involved in the artistic collective called Ładnie Group. The title meant pretty or pretty and the band embraced the exact opposite aesthetic. Rather unconventional, and was active until 2000. After that Sasnal worked for advertising agencies but simultaneously produced paintings. Photographs, films. Over time, as his career developed, the artist’s work became part of the public collections of institutions such as the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
20th century propaganda.
Sasnal approaches painting as a formal exercise. He often borrows subjects from art history. Also, to 20th century propaganda and photojournalism. Avions is a dark appropriation of Alighiero Boetti’s famous airplane designs. Overturning the original pastoral optimism, Wilhelm Sasnal’s planes are engulfed in smoke as if hit by enemy fire.
High culture.
He deconstructs the hierarchy of “high culture” by filtering it through the association of mass media. Through painting, Sasnal explores his own interpretation and understanding of imagery. Her work constantly questions the space between “personal” and “public”. Thus, he strives to define individual experience within a global order of collective consciousness.
Website→ https://www.instagram.com/wilhelm_sasnal/
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Ferrán Gisbert
Ferrán Gisbert
Painter
Location: Spain
The materiality of painting in the work of Ferrán Gisbert escapes language. Meaning to claim the creative process of painting as a pure form of expression and performative intervention. The form is generic for the styling action. Using a craft brush matching the artist’s cue. The performative act is printed directly on the walls, recording the movements of the artist, full of gesture, speed and vitality.
The hand of the author.
The questions that the work of Ferran Gisbert addresses are the intention that animates the hand of the author, of any author. He is driven by the influences of the time in which he lives. The imprint left by said intention in the place, evoking the physical presence of the artist. Gestures, understood as clues that recall the maneuver of the artist. The relationship of his body in a struggle for control of the properties and proportions of the place. His work then generates a concrete way of inhabiting the intervening space when the viewer, contemplating the painting, reconstructs the corporeality of the author there.
Website→ https://www.facebook.com/ferrangisbert.paintings
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