Reisha Perlmutter is a Napoli artist that live and works in New York, creating oil paintings informed by the way we “relate to our bodies on an uninhibited, biological level.” portraitizes Reisha Perlmutter has turned her attention to the relationship between the body and water. In her 2016 and 2017 series ‘Water’, Perlmutter adopts her usual painterly…
Ian Davenport is an English painter that has been celebrated for over 2 decades. His works rely on assembling vertical lines in a rich variety of colors. Ian Davenport has 2 projects, called “Poured Lines” and “Puddle Painting”, that demonstrate the artist’s acute understanding of color theory and commitment to evolving his iconic repeat process. As Davenport…
Igor Gusev lives and works in Ukraine’s port city of Odessa. His work presents a conceptual take on classical styles and imagery of paint. He challenges a viewer’s expectations of the medium, fusing clichés of past and present expression. In this collection of paintings, Gusev demonstrates a traditional understanding of figurative painterly technique and symbolic contemporary…
Lino Lago is a Spanish artist that created layers, splashing of color over realistic oil-painted portraits creating a palimpsest of the old and the new. Lino Lago’s ‘Fake Abstract’ series depicts classically painted portraits of women — think ‘Girl With The Pearl Earring’ or ‘Mona Lisa’, and her haunting eyes — covered with an opaque,…
Guim Tió is an artist based in Barcelona that painted totems in the midst of vast landscapes: a red buoy wobbles in a darkened lake, at the beginning of a fjord a figure stands to contemplate both sky and sea. Rather than being engulfed by the sublime scenes, these totems are colored points that draw your…
Shawn Huckins is an artist based in Colorado that created a little different art: a series of oil and acrylic-on-canvas paintings that depict historical paintings of prominent political figures and landscapes, that have had large parts of their form erased. Shawn Huckins thought that this is something unique and it is, especially when he didn’t use…
Gwen Yip is a complex artist, she had traveled and worked in cities around the world, exploring in this way the experience of isolation. Gwen Yip depicted the isolation through her paintings, portraying loneliness in cities like New York, Hong Kong sau London. The lack of identity invites viewers to fill in the blanks of…
Holly Elander is an artist based in Los Angeles that paints a concrete city blanketed in darkness, her streetscapes illuminated by electric light that — though painted — seems almost audible as it hums through the night. Holly Elander has a series of paintings that gives a voyeuristic view to the streets and alleys we dare not…
Henrietta Harris is an artist from New Zealand that undertook a residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland. There, she painted a collection of moody, pastel landscapes as a reaction to the environment around her, for a series titled ‘Hidden People’. Henrietta Harris lives in Skagaströnd, a small village with a population of 500, situated four hour’s drive from the capital…
Massimo Colonna is an Italian artist that created a series of four digital renderings of open-air architectural spaces featuring puzzling visual elements. Massimo Colonna’s statement begins with a definition of the word ambiguous, which doubles as both the title and premise of the series: “Open to more than one interpretation”. The four images are inspired by exotic…