painting

Using delicious cake as inspiration, Leah Rosenberg forms layer upon colorful layer of paint in her Paint Stacks series.

Art that explores overlapping bright colors and geometric patterns in acrylic, gouache and ink on wood panels.

Oversized abstract gouache paintings and silkscreens on paper by Australian artist Kirra Jamison.

São Paulo, Brazil-based artist Gabee Meyer finds random leaves and paints folk-meets-contemporary patterns on them.

Colorful palettes picked from the abstract artwork of Baltimore-based artist Beth Hoeckel, who works in paint, collage, mixed media, and photography.

Abstract painter Yolanda Sanchez earned an MFA from Yale in the mid '90s, 15 years after earning a Ph.D. Clinical Psychology from Florida State. It's not surprising that in her artist's statement, Sanchez discusses how her work is "a gathering of [her] awareness of being," and that her goal is "to become a more finely tuned observer." What is obvious to us, and of course the reason we chose her for this week's CMYLK, is that she clearly lives in a beautifully colored world.

Kate Tucker is an Australian artist based in Melbourne who works mostly with painting and mixed media installation. She is inspired by the kaleidoscopic wonder of flora and fauna, which immediately makes sense upon viewing her lush, vibrant abstract pieces. For this week's CMYLK, we mocked up Colourlovers palettes of three acrylic works she created this year.

Arguably the greatest painter alive, Chuck Close presents amazing new work at Pace Gallery in New York. His ability to calculate color is super-human and his perseverance in the face of dyslexia, prosopagnosia (face-blindness), and partial quadriplegia (!!!) is nothing short of incredible.

Artist Michelle Weinberg's paintings are pretty darn awesome, but it's her rug designs that made me do a double take.

I got word of Drew Tyndell via Lauren Gregg and I have to admit that I'm eying a piece for my own home.

When not keeping busy as a muralist, photographer, printmaker, and musician, the New York-based artist Maya Hayuk creates paintings that include colorful palettes and wild patterns. This group of work was recently on display at Toronto's COOPER COLE gallery in a solo exhibition.