Explore colorful, life-size duct tape sculptures in Washington Park in a new art exhibit

Click to enlarge Photo: courtesy of the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts Flower Door by Evan Dawson Home repair essentials meet interactive art in a new exhibit at Washington Park and CampSITE Sculpture Park. The Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC) has once again partnered with Duck Brand Duct Tape for an inventive art exhibit.... Read More

Around Amherst: Animated ice sculptures return to Common this weekend

AMHERST – Amherst’s famous salamanders who use specially constructed tunnels to help them safely cross Henry Street in the village of Cushman will be featured as one of many ice sculptures on Town Common over the weekend. end. The drive-in ice sculpture exhibit, starting at 5 p.m. Saturday, is a partnership between the Amherst... Read More

Remembering Todd McKie, a painter known for his luminous palette, dark humor and friendship

His ironic and deceptively simple paintings approach life’s challenges with dark humor. In “The Basket Case”, from 2011, a blue figure holds a yellow basket, both of which glow against a hazy background. An upside-down black head floats beside the basket, as if the awkward darkness has inevitably escaped its pretty confines. “The Basket... Read More

Famous Greek painter Alekos Fassianos dies at 86

On your marks, pet, go! Leesa Dahl reviews everything about our furry, furry, feathered, fishy friends (and more!). Arrives in your inbox every Monday. Sign up for Ready, Pet, Go! FILE – Greek painter Alekos Fassianos attends an Athens Marathon medal ceremony, in Athens, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Fassianos, one of the most important... Read More

Elder Gallery exhibition pays homage to figurative painter Stephen Brown | Arts and theater

Assembling ‘The Painful Beauty of It All: The Paintings of Stephen Brown’ was a labor of love for Nebraska Wesleyan art teacher David Gracie, who pays homage to his teacher with the Elder Gallery exhibition Brown’s paintings. “Rouhan” is an oil on wood painting by Stephen Brown from his exhibition “The Aching Beauty of... Read More

Waco Painter Kermit Oliver Gets Appropriate Career Exposure at Hometown Art Center

Waco painter Kermit Oliver is no stranger. His deeply allegorical work was included in the inaugural exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016. There was a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 2005. And curator Dave Hickey selected it for SITE’s fourth Santa... Read More

Meet Rachel Jones, a rising painter whose electrically quivering paintings have captivated collectors around the world

Standing in front of a painting by Rachel Jones is like letting her take you on a journey through her emotional landscape, with her skillful use of color and composition as your guide. One of the artist’s centers of interest is black interiority, accessible somewhat literally through the frequent inclusion of the mouth and... Read More

The Vineyard Gazette – Martha’s Vineyard News

Norma Bridwell has been an artist since childhood. Yet it wasn’t until this winter, on the cusp of her 89th birthday, that the longtime Edgartown resident saw a public exhibition devoted solely to her paintings. “I’ve never seen anything like it before,” said Ms. Bridwell, whose work is on display in the art... Read More

Black avant-garde writer and columnist Greg Tate dead at 64 – ARTnews.com

Greg Tate, an incisive and influential critic and essayist who focused on issues related to music, art and other areas of culture, has died aged 64. Reports of his passing began circulating online early Tuesday, and his publisher Duke University Press confirmed the news. A cause of death was not immediately available. Tate made... Read More

artist donates sculptures to hospital | New

MARINETTE — Five sculptures were recently installed along the Mary Hofer Walking Trail at Aurora Medical Center — Bay Area. John Hofer, executive director of the Provident Health Foundation and former director of marketing for Aurora — Bay Area Medical Center, donated the trail to the hospital in April 2020 in memory of... Read More

Booming figurative painter Dominic Chambers joins Lehmann Maupin – ARTnews.com

Dominic Chambers believes in personal care. The burgeoning figurative painter has been recognized for his vast canvases in which the mundane and the magical converge. In a youthful work, a woman seated on a sofa is absorbed by a book; the sofa floats along an abstract blue background reminiscent of a tumultuous river.... Read More

Sculptures that capture history: the art and crafts of Sami Mohammed

The bronze statue of the late Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah of Kuwait. By Nawara Fattahova Sculpture carries a long tradition in Kuwait. Some local artists have been creating sculptures here since the 1960s and the main one is the well-known and well-respected Kuwaiti sculptor, Sami Mohammed. Two of its most important pieces... Read More

Prominent Iranian Painter “Iran Darroudi” Dies Aged 85

Prominent Iranian Painter “Iran Darroudi” Dies Aged 85 10/29/21 Source: Mehr News Agency Iranian painter, director, writer, art critic and university professor Iran Darroudi died on Friday morning at the age of 85 in Tehran. Iranian veteran painter Iran Darroudi died Friday morning of cardiac arrest at the age of 85. Iran Darroudi1936-2021... Read More

Prominent painter “Iran Darroudi” died at the age of 85

Iranian veteran painter Iran Darroudi died Friday morning of cardiac arrest at the age of 85. Iran Darroudi was also a film director, writer, art critic and university professor born in 1936 in Khorasan in a prominent dynasty. Darroudi’s accomplishments include his 60 individual and 200 group exhibitions, art critics published in various... Read More

See the recently discovered works of pioneer painter Hilma af Klint | Smart News

Hilma af Klint, photographed in her studio circa 1885 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Eight newly discovered works by groundbreaking Swedish modernist Hilma af Klint are set to be on display in Manhattan next month, Sarah Cascone reports for Artnet news. Scholars have traditionally credited male artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian,... Read More

Blacksmith monument captures attention with feminine and soft sculptures | Way of life

Get to know Jodie Bliss, blacksmith artist and owner of Bliss Studio Custom Metalwork in Monument, Colorado. Your image of a blacksmith is probably archaic. It is probably about a man hammering a piece of red hot iron on an anvil. But if you conjured up a sculptural blonde doing the same job,... Read More

Phillip Levine, whose sculptures dot the Northwest landscape, dies at 90

Phillip Levine, a sculptor of well-known public works of art that dot the region’s landscape, died in Seattle on September 19 at the age of 90. A prolific artist who has been professionally active for nearly 70 years, Levine is best known for his accessible and large-scale bronze sculptures of the human form,... Read More

Destination Crenshaw moves forward with first series of public sculptures

LOS ANGELES — A new bronze sculpture by Kehinde Wiley of a 21st-century African woman on horseback, part of his popular series that dramatically updates Confederate war memorials, is heading south from Los Angeles. The city’s Department of Cultural Affairs voted Wednesday to approve placement of Wiley’s artwork, along with six others, in a... Read More

A forgotten flower painter, resuscitated

In George Agnew Reid’s 1889 painting “Dreaming”, the model is his wife, but she is also an artist. We don’t see the face of the now almost forgotten painter Mary Hiester Reid as she leans over a fireplace in their shared Paris studio, but the glowing embers light up her long apron and... Read More

The 1950s Pinay painter is the star of today’s auctions

His “Tinapa sellers” sold for 84 million euros in February, by far the biggest source of money in this big auction which opened the year. Four months later, his “Women with Baskets, Fish and Crab” fetched 52.6 million pesos at the spectacular mid-year auction, overtaking a Vicente Manansala as well as a Fernando... Read More

The Vermont Cynic | Art on campus is more than simple sculptures

For students and faculty, art is both visual and abstract, and all forms are seen and experienced on campus every day. Over the past 10 years, the UVM campus has grown its collection of artwork such as the iconic Bus Ball near the Marsh Life Science Building and Tango, the new sculpture depicting... Read More

Creator of gigantic portraits, painter Chuck Close, dies at 81: NPR

Chuck Close was known for his giant photorealistic portraits of friends and colleagues in the art world. Late in her life, Close was charged with sexual harassment. IN MARTINEZ, HTE: The art world mourns the loss of Chuck Close, who died yesterday of congestive heart failure in Oceanside, NY. He was 81 years... Read More

The art world remembers the late painter Hung Liu, who valued everyday immigrants in monumental portraits

On the eve of her first retrospective in a museum, Oakland painter Hung Liu, one of the first Chinese artists to have achieved success in the United States, died on Saturday August 7 of pancreatic cancer. She was 73 years old. During his career, Hung Liu created large-scale paintings and installations based on... Read More

Island Portrait: Sculptor, writer, painter draws his inspiration from the natural world | New

A large bronze bird stands in Kiwanis Waterfront Park, next to the Guemes Island ferry terminal, its wings stretching skyward. The artist who created it, Leo Osborne, lives and works across the Channel on the Isle of Guemes. Osborne, who moved to the area in the early 1990s after speaking with the late... Read More

Sculptures by the Greenwich artist on display at the landfill are created from other people’s waste

Up to the knees among old golf clubs with chipped wood and tennis rackets without straps, Michael manning spends a day in the field at the Holly Hill Resource Recovery Facility on Holly Hill Lane in Greenwich. Manning has been a studio artist his entire working life, but if he’s there every morning... Read More

David Lynch’s light sculptures to be on display at Hollywood Art Fair – The Hollywood Reporter

During the pandemic, filmmaker and artist David Lynch decided to make lamps, which he has done on and off over the years. Some are small, and some are large, some Douglas fir, others metal, and a selection of them will be on display at the Kayne griffon gallery stand at Felix Art Fair... Read More

Textile sculptures capture the magnificent movement of ocean creatures

Passionate about fabric and guided by her intuition, the artist Mariko Kusumoto creates sculptures inspired by the things that fascinate her. The sometimes portable pieces often revolve around the ocean, and marine inhabitants, like coral, inspire shapes. They blend perfectly with the softness and translucent qualities of the fabric; the pieces have a... Read More

At Fuller Craft, artist Michelle Samour transcends borders and boundaries

In Michelle Samour’s childhood home, a magnificent Persian rug adorned the living room floor. The rug was filled with patterns – deep reds, navy blues, soft greens – that were geometric in style but organic. The carpet was just one object among many that was the touchstone of a region of the world... Read More

Tom Ferrero from Vienna named 2019 Master Craft Artist Award winner

VIENNA – The Maine Crafts Association (MCA) has named metal artist Tom Ferrero as the 2019 recipient of the MCA Master Craft Artist Award. Tom Ferreero from Vienna has been named the winner of the Master Crafts Art Award 2019. Photo by Tom Ferrero MCA is a state-wide nonprofit organization that promotes the... Read More