Louise LeBourgeois – Translating Water & Sky
When an artist connects cerebrally and viscerally with experience and a place beyond the studio, there is a synergy that breaths a freshness into the work produced. There is a visible purity in this form of renewal. This observation can be applied to the oeuvre of Louise LeBourgeois. For ...
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Monika Plioplyte – Cyclic Pagan Patterns & Universes
One item I am drawn to is direct display and conversation. Monika Plioplyte holds these nonevasive traits in her art practice and the manner in which she carries herself. In recent time, there's been an insistence to avoid frankness and honesty due to our present socio-political milieu. In Plioplyte's ...
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Kim Piotrowski – Big Walls Need Big Brushes
Kim Piotrowski makes BIG art, both metaphorically and physically. Her drawings, paintings and public works clearly relay the pulse of a transitioning milieu. The ideas and palette are contemplative while disruptive, exciting while calm, and psychological while visceral, simultaneously. Simply put, Piotrowski's visual output is complex as is the ...
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Jason Dunda – Examining a Rogue Gallery of Unflattering Portraits
There's still a bit of Canada in Jason Dunda. This can be clearly seen in his current aesthetic investigations. As an expat living in a precarious time where America's divisive ideologies are grossly amplified and nationalistic fervor is at fever pitch, Dunda is now focused upon examining the imbalanced ...
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Caleb Beck – Bent Paintings & an Impossible Shot
Caleb Beck takes risks. Sometimes, measured application is clearly realized, while in other instances youthful impulsiveness prevails. In our hyperactive capitalist culture where art is commodified prior to proper assessment, Beck understands the importance in taking his chances (no matter how lofty) in the torturous terrain that one navigates ...
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Karen Azarnia – A Convergence of Fragments & the Cinematic
Karen Azarnia culls memory, time, and family occasions to produce felicific paintings that are informed, in part, by art history and immediate personal experiences. Recently, the COMP Magazine made a visit to Azarnia's studio at Mana Contemporary to discuss her ongoing curatorial and painting practice, how she balances family ...
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Monica Rezman – A Persistent Winding Path
Initially trained in a traditional atelier format, artist Monica Rezman takes a nod from formal aesthetic investigations that found roots in the early 20th century while simultaneously staying current with ongoing current advancements in artistic production. Her artwork melds and transforms hair, cardboard, traditional media, and formal analysis to ...
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Michelle Wasson – A Sizable Unencumbered Aesthetic Approach
Without doubt, entering the massive studio of Michelle Wasson one will note a sense of ephemeral thoughts in contemplation. An immediate realization of scale is located due to the size of the space, the large works, and her apparent reflective production. Wasson's practice and conceptual approach is fluid, substantial, ...
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Zachary Cahill – Contemplating & In Search of the Divine
With the release of his recent novel, The Black Flame of Paradise, and an invested art practice, Zachary Cahill has located an aesthetic voice that combines thoughtful analysis with an in-studio physicality that clearly reflects the relationary content that defines our current milieu. Though, upon initial encounter with Cahill's ...
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Allison L. Wade – Transformations of Language Into Form
With a background in literature, Allison L. Wade has been carving out a visual vocabulary that references past and present experience while simultaneously establishing a consistent aesthetic vocabulary that explores contemporary tenets of abstraction. This can be seen in her recent exhibitions here in Chicago at Devening Projects, in ...
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