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New York-based artist Ethan Cook engages with materialism and minimalism through his two primary media, woven canvas and handmade paper. Cook’s paintings are composed of colored fabric panels that have been hand woven on a four-harness loom, stitched together, and stretched on bars. Foregoing the notion that in order to paint one must apply pigment to canvasContinue reading “Ethan Cook”

Jansson Stegner is a figurative painter best known for his mannerist portraiture. Although often his staging and handling of paint is reminiscent of traditional European portraiture and 19th-century genre painting, his work offers a distinctively a modern, albeit idealized, depiction of contemporary life. The figure is Stegner’s currency – and with an understanding of theContinue reading “Jansson Stegner”

American painter Lola Gil’s work disturbs visual conventions of domesticity and consumption. Fantastic and uncanny, most of her paintings depict scenes in and around the home, with fragmented or warped images layered on the picture plane. Blown glass figurines feature prominently within Gil’s canvases, sometimes obscuring the entirety of a figure or landscape. Thematically, herContinue reading “Lola Gil”

For over three decades, Nicola Tyson’s influential explorations of embodiment and the female form have spanned not just painting, but also sculpture, drawing, and the written word.  The artist distorts our experiences of identity and the structures which determine them—gender, sexuality, and (non-)humanity.  Her biomorphic figures and painterly surfaces rattle our expectations of what bodiesContinue reading “Nicola Tyson”

Petra Cortright creates digital and physical images using consumer and corporate software. She gained recognition for YouTube self-portrait videos with webcam effects and spam-text captions. Her paintings, made in Photoshop with appropriated images, are printed on materials like aluminum and acrylic. While digital files are endlessly modifiable, she finalizes them as fixed two-dimensional objects withContinue reading “Petra Cortright”

Born in 1958, currently lives and works in Connecticut, USA. DeFelice’s career began upon graduation from Rhode Island School of Design. Starting out as an illustrator and eventually transitioning into the Animation Industry in 1997, where he worked with Disney Feature Animation. As a traditional Background Painter/ Development Artist, he worked on various film productions,Continue reading “Ron DeFelice”

Tony Matelli is one of the most important sculptors and provocateurs of his generation.  Matelli is known for his conceptual range and material dexterity, moving deftly from uncanny, life-size figurative works to exacting and miraculous reorientations of common objects. For 25 years, Matelli’s artistic concerns have centered around the human condition, imbuing his sculptures withContinue reading “Tony Matelli”