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Working with paper, Fowler produces complex geometry, intently constructed sculptural compositions that transform into three dimensional rigid constructions. Fowler uses an X-Acto knife to cut precisely all the negative space from each piece, creating a refined paper lace of graphite lines. By looping these lines he transforms them into organic drawings. Fawler’s works could be described as “sculptural drawing” that shows subtle intricacy and graceful depth.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art announced an exhibition of recent paintings by New York artist Teo González, opening Thursday, March 7, 2013 with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. On view will be González’s signature abstract field paintings achieved through the meticulous application of thousands of contrasting dots of paint on canvas. The exhibition will be on view through April 20, 2013...Read Full Story

27 March 2013 | Sydney artist Gary Carsley has a new work exhibited inAgainst the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York. Carsley’s large-scale work, entitled D.100 A Tree Struck by Lightening (Wave Hill), was selected for the exhibition as part of MAD’s focus on material and processes in contemporary art.

“Being a painter who no longer paints leaves me open to many different paths” is the way Ted Larsen describes his sculptural process. And indeed his lovely metal works have a painterly feel as much as they do three-dimensional objects. For his latest series of works that make up “Gimcrack” at Pan American Art Projects, he has crafted mostly pre-painted, salvaged-steel scraps into sculptures – a choice of material that could lend itself to a literally heavy output, but these look far more delicate.

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Geoform is an online scholarly resource and curatorial project whose focus is the use of geometric form and structure in contemporary abstract art being made by artists from around the world.

Geoform explores, documents and celebrates the rich diversity of style and aesthetic intent that characterizes this broad vein of contemporary non-objective abstraction. Such diversity attests to the profound resonance that geometric form and structure have had for people across time and place.

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Gallery Renate Bender brings minimal, monochrome and abstract expressionist from Munich, Germany. We had a quick chat with their represented artist Peter Weber.

Please tell us about the work of Jus Juchtmans.

Jus Juchtmans is a Belgian artist who uses extremely shiny acrylic to cover his canvases in many layers. The various layers shine through as some colors mix and others compliment each other. Beautiful aesthetics.

Bill Thompson makes easy (on the eye) relief sculpture the hard way. He starts with a two-dimensional shape rendered onto a block of polyurethane. Then he digs at, and smooths down, the block with power tools. After the form has been further finished by hand, the artist applies up to 20 coats of auto paint (glossy, with tiny sparkles) in colors made to order.

Yesterday I went down to Michael’s to lunch with Nan Swid. Nan is a longtime New Yorker who hails from Kansas City or thereabouts. She’s lived here most of her life, however, married to a native New Yorker Stephen Swid who is a well known businessman/entrepreneur; and she is also a mother and a grandmother... Continue to full article

Writing on Brice Brown’s work for the accompanying catalogue, Alpesh Kantilal Patel states:

"Brice Brown’s works are queer. They are unstablesignifiers that exist in between here and there as well as now and then; and operate ona meta-level through the production of a palpable destabilizing affect. In the process, theseworks make felt the impossibility of the closure of identity, broadly construed."

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Omar Chacon uses small droplets of acrylic paint to create pieces so vivid and colorful they look like they belong in a dream.

Each painting is comprised of small, technicolor ovals that come together to form abstract paintings, so textured that you can see every layer of paint that goes into the work.

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