Posts Tagged ‘ paintings ’

To experience Amy Guidry’s series “In Our Veins” is to be treated to a vision, one in which a distinctly Western, distinctly American landscape, typically so stark and barren, is suddenly and surreally tenanted by a menagerie of viscera and animate remains. We find ourselves transported to a realm in which the borders between...
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The liaisons of men and women have inspired artists since, well… pretty much since men and women became an item. But it is with a thoroughly fresh eye that painter-provocateur Ian Shults invites us to peek through the keyhole with him and revisit the games played behind closed boudoir doors. At a glance, his...
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At a glance, the subjects of Angie Renfro’s paintings – factories, birds, telephone wires – are straightforward. But look a moment longer at the haze obscuring the smokestack, at the anguish of the dawn sky, at the fire of a hidden sun, and one finds profound and tragic beauty radiating through these deceptively simple...
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Art and identity are inextricably linked, if not flat-out symbiotic. And when it comes to plumbing the rich depths of that symbiosis, few contemporary artists are as intrepid or as talented as Kajahl Benes. In his own words: “My paintings explore the racial, social, and psychological subtleties of both African and African American cultures....
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