New paintings inspired by the Arab Spring and revolution throughout history from Irish Artist Fintan Switzer’s new exhibition ’Guerrillas In The Mist’ which sold out last month. An Artist to keep an eye out for, especially if you’re into Conor Harrington or Aaron Nagel’s work.
We ran a competition for BLOW photo magazine last month and the winner chose Dana Schutz’s ‘The Sneeze’ as their favorite portrait.
‘Sneeze does everything a portrait shouldn’t: contorted and unflattering, Schutz sets up the serene stillness of memento just to interrupt it with high-velocity drool and repulsive gobs of snot. It’s a comic take on painting that’s just fundamentally wrong. More akin to an unfortunate photographic snapshot than honoured art tradition, Schutz uses her medium to embellish the horror of embarrassment, exaggerating a moment of inopportune affliction to a permanent monument of public ridicule.’ The Saatchi Gallery
More of her work below. WARNING, pretty gruesome birthing image at the end of the post.
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/dana_schutz
Each of these paper clip sculptures were made by different friends of Boston based Artist Dan Golden and then painted as still lifes.
New landscape paintings from Donegal Artist Ann Quinn. Ann will be exhibiting her work at an upcoming solo show in the Taylor Galleries Dublin in June.
Abstract geometric paintings from Vancouver based Artist Jeff Depner. Jeff is represented by Aureus Contemporary in New York.
Amazing surreal paintings with a good measure of Dalí (particularly ‘Soft Construction with Boiled Beans’), from Sicilian artist Fulvio di Piazza. He was recently included in the group exhibition ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ curated by Stephanie Chefas. Fulvio di Piazza is represented by the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York.
Paintings from Vancouver based Artist, Wall Writer and Designer Scott Sueme. His limited edition screen print ‘Move in Silence’ is available here.
Loving these paintings from LA based Artist Kent Williams. His book Eklektikos featuring paintings from 2007 – 2011 is available here. Check out Kent’s wonderful blog where he show loads of his sketching work and the process of his paintings.
