Carrot Top, 2010. Felt pens on paper, 29 x 21 cm.
Jellyfish Blues, 2010. India ink, felt pens on paper, 30 x 42 cm.
Havi Nagila, 2010. Felt pens on paper, 30 x 42 cm.
Green Tambourine, 2010. India ink, watercolor and felt pens on paper, 29 x 21 cm.
“All in Together Now”
oil on canvas
Titled after Wu Tang “All in Together Now”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx4KtTezEFg
www.erikabhess.com
All all all in together now. We gettin’ paid, gettin’ dressed for the weather now.
Friends and I at “Can I Get a Witness” exhibition opening, May 3 Tejas Gallery. Yes, I am exhausted in the images.
Paintings: Erika Hess and Rebecca Sargent
Digital Pattern Drawing
Erika Hess
Installation shot of, “Can I Get a Witness”, Tejas Gallery, OH. Erika Hess and Rebecca Sargent.
Press release here: http://www.erikabhess.com/#!blank/c1f2
Phillip Taaffe’s work has won me over. It wasn’t that I disliked it, I just didn’t feel strongly about it.
Phillip Taaffe at Luhring Augustine http://www.luhringaugustine.com/
Travess Smalley: Capture Physical Presence
Higher Pictures
980 Madison Ave., NY, NY
Opening: Thursday, May 2nd, 6-8pm
Runs through June 1, 2013
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Travess’ first NYC solo exhibition opens on Thursday. If you’re in town, you need to see this show.
Click HERE to read the essay I wrote about this work last year for his book of the same name. The text was reworked and updated for the exhibition’s press materials.
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“Higher Pictures is pleased to present Capture Physical Presence, the first New York solo exhibition by Travess Smalley. These dynamic, abstract digital photo collages undulate between digital and physical image making, defying the viewer’s expectation of gesture and medium.
Smalley’s work is at the forefront of the exploration of medium in contemporary art and approaches the evolving nature of painting and optics through experimental working methods. He uses the tools of contemporary, digital, computer-based life, such as the home office printer and scanner, laser printer, and Photoshop, to explore alternate color theories, the languages of Modernist composition, and post-1960s definitions of psychedelia. His vivid, color-saturated works challenge viewers to let go of preconceived ideas of what is analog versus what is digital, and see the hybrid visual reality of our digitized world.
Smalley creates graphics using Photoshop, prints them out, cuts them up, collages them, scans them back into Photoshop, and digitally manipulates the results, over and over again. With notions of medium, origin, and objecthood becoming quickly obscured in the process, these resulting works consistently update – and expand upon – traditional boundaries for creating and presenting collage.
Born in rural West Virginia in 1986, Smalley graduated from Cooper Union in 2010. He lives and works in Jersey City.”
Progress.
Abstract watercolor #…. I lost count
