Toil of our Hands
The collaborative husband-and-wife team of Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings produces some amazing modern paintings. The couple works together on their large-scale abstract works in which she designs and chooses the color and tone of each piece while he paints them. While Biggs is well-known in the mosaic world and Collings in the broadcasting and writing fields, they come together to create these modern geometric oil paintings that really draw the viewer in.
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Cold Comfort Quilt
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, artist Ted Larsen focuses on making abstract sculptures with the use of found “non-art materials.” He chooses to stay away from one particular theme in his work and instead pursues many directions in which he continues to experiment with contexts, hybrids, and scale. I love how he uses a variety of salvaged materials including metal, wood, and wax to create such a diverse body of work.
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Dana Oldfather’s paintings made a significant leap in 2011 — a leap onto my wishlist!
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Since 2001, French Canadian artist Steven Spazuk has been working with a technique he developed that allows him to use a flame from a candle or torch to create his paintings with the trails of soot that remain. He then uses tools to manipulate the soot left behind on the thick paper to develop breathtaking images. His work, which is mostly monochromatic, evolves as he is working and he allows the images to emerge naturally.
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LA-based artist Dion Johnson‘s colorful oversized paintings are just what the doctor ordered today. I love the horizontal one – it resembles the horizon, perhaps as seen from a plane window on takeoff.
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Seattle-based artist Jesse Brown works in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, and more. His work features geometric shapes and patterns, lines and tonal variations. Whether he is using a pen or a brush, his pieces have an awesome graphic quality about them.
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Colorado-based Pard Morrison is a modern day geometric abstractionist with work that is a cross between painting and sculpture. His large-scale work features blocks of color configured in a way that gives each piece an illusion of greater dimensionality. The box-like forms are created by the pieces extending from the wall by 3-1/4″ giving each piece a sculptural feel.
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German-born, Belgium-based artist Jens Hesse’s most recent paintings are influenced by digital distorted satellite signals. He uses oil on corduroy to get an extra distorted effect.
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Thank You Brenda is a design project started by Joel Burns that makes custom printed canvases and acrylic paint. The project came from Burns’ interest in combining the approaches of art and fashion to making paintings that are attainable to a more expansive audience, one that perhaps could not afford it before. With Burns’ experience, it allowed them “to avoid the common tropes of anti-art while making something that legitimately stands on its own as a good product.”
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Ron van der Ende is a sculptor from the Netherlands whose sculptures consist of 3D paintings on scraps of reclaimed wood.
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