After the death of her parents, wealthy Josabeth Sjöberg (1812-1882), formerly daughter of a clerk in a Swedish government department, became poor and … [Read more...]
Ryan Whelan and Liz Hernández’s Ordinary Objects
Ryan Whelan is an artist and graphic designer based in Oakland, California. His works (made in collaboration with Liz Hernández) are produced with a … [Read more...]
“The Unpredictable Marks of Chance”: Works by Sean Sullivan
Sean Sullivan is a multimedia artist currently living in NY's Hudson Valley. He paints, draws, makes prints, sculptures and poems with few and simple … [Read more...]
Portraying Stillness: Alex Lowery’s Paintings.
Alex Lowery is a British painter who depicts landscapes composed of few elements: houses, skies, surfaces which become fields, streets, beaches or … [Read more...]
Sam Szafran’s Staircases
Sam Szafran (1934) is a French artist that is known for his skillful pastels technique and for an obsession for depicting peculiar architectural … [Read more...]
Jun Kamaori’s Isolated People in the Landscape
Jun Kumaori is a Japanese illustrator based in Kyoto. Her works place a solitary character with manga-like features, in the middle of a very detailed … [Read more...]
Zones Devoid of Time: Ballard’s Penguin Covers, by David Pelham
David Pelham was an English artist and graphic designer who came to meet author J. G. Ballard through their mutual friend, pop artist Eduardo … [Read more...]
“The Anxiety of Photography”: Works by Matt Saunder
Matt Saunder is an American artist who currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was trained as a painter, … [Read more...]
Between Realism and Absurdity: Painting by Matthias Weischer
German artist Matthias Weischer (1973) constructs imaginary rooms through paintings at the brink between realism and absurdity. The eclectic … [Read more...]
The Sense of Erasure: Wilhelm Beestermoeller’s Works
Wilhelm Beestermoeller (also, here), is an artist based in Berlin. His technique consists in drawing or painting over existing photos, sometimes … [Read more...]
Adriana Varejão: Metaphorical Body and Gore in the “Sauna Series”
Adriana Varejão (1964) is a Brazilian multimedia artist. Painting, photography, sculpture, installation: her body of work is wide and very diverse as … [Read more...]
The View From Inside: Tiny Interiors Paintings by Eleanor Ray
Although still very young, artist Eleanor Ray has already established herself as an important voice in modern painting. What contrasts with her … [Read more...]
Endless City and Other Works by Brian Alfred
Brian Alfred is an artist based in Brooklyn. Parallelly to his career as a musician he has created paintings, collages and animations, consisting … [Read more...]
Wilhelm Sasnal, A Contemporary Wanderer In and Out of The Media Landscape
Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish artist. Although primarily a painter, he also works with video, photographs, ink drawings, pencil drawings and creates … [Read more...]
Imperfections, Dirt and Decay: Interiors by Antonio Lopez Garcia
Throughout his career, Spanish realist artist Antonio Lopez Garcia painted a number of interiors scenes. Most of these works show the less cared … [Read more...]
Metaphysical Scenes by Ana Kapor
Ana Kapor is a Serbian-born painter living and working in Italy. Her figurative painting style directly refers to the Renaissance and Byzantine … [Read more...]
Poetry of the Commonplace: Nigel Van Wieck Paintings
New York City-based artist Nigel Van Wieck's work is firmly rooted in the tradition of American Realism. Classic Hopperesque racetracks, solitary … [Read more...]
Gerhard Richter’s Mountains: from the Mountain Ranges to Sculptural Paintings
"Gebirge", Mountains, is one of the categories of "Atlas", the large collection of source-images that Richter employed to create his paintings. The … [Read more...]
The Banality of Everyday Life: Domestic Interiors painted by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916)
Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter known for his low-key atmospheres and his very limited palette of grey tones and mostly … [Read more...]
Nathalie Du Pasquier’s Recent Paintings and Constructions
Graphic and industrial designer, illustrator and painter, Nathalie Du Pasquier (Bordeaux, 1957) was one of the original co-founder of Italian design … [Read more...]
Ian Davis’ Paintings of Sacral Contemplation
New-York based artist Ian Davis paints scenes where human beings are reduced to minimal multiplied figures gathering around a monumental presence. The … [Read more...]
John Virtue’s Landscapes and Cityscapes
John Virtue (1947) is a British painter who focuses on monochrome landscapes with abrupt contrast of tones made in … [Read more...]
‘Painting Begins Where Language Fails’: Gao Xingjian Ink-Paintings
2000 Nobel prize winning writer Gao Xingjian (China, 1940) is also a prolific artist. His works expose a contemporary sensibility … [Read more...]
