1. Based in Hamburg, Germany, Carina Crenshaw creates delicate paintings that experiment with color to convey different lighting conditions and moods. Crenshaw’s brushstrokes reminiscent are at times reminiscent of 20th-century abstract painting: blocks of color are built up next to one another to create works that appear flat despite their luminous effect. Crenshaw’s works zero in on subjects’ faces; they don powerful expressions that seem to place them in rich narrative contexts that the viewer must piece together based on the limited information. 

  2. Some recent work from Aleah Chapin

    The people represented in Aleah’s paintings are her mother’s friends. This personal bond allows the artist to portray the mystical essence of her characters. Through an almost scientific and detailed exploration of the flesh, her nudes reveal her feelings within an ethereal momentum. With strong corporal expression, her models speak to us trough their hands, eyes or feet in contrast with the fragile landscapes.

  3. The surreal world of PacoPomet

  4. Over the years, Peter Ravn has continuously made paintings with “men in suits.” This recurring theme relates to taking a peek into the lives of modern day men—viewing the calm, disciplined public personas, versus the private life personas that deal with hidden anxieties, frustrations, and other emotions.

  5. Razvan Boar’s paintings ranges between varying degrees of abstraction and sometimes pushing close to photorealism. All of his pieces are set in an ambiguous world filled with subjects with floating (and sometimes unrendered) body parts in scaled-back and muted colors, or completely gray-scaled. Boar is able to create an unsettling and unstable mood in his work that seems to draw in viewers deeper into his world.

  6. Oakland painter Brett Amory returned to Thinkspace on Saturday for the 2-person ‘Dirty Laundry’ with Adam Caldwell. For his latest additions to his ongoing ‘Waiting’ oil series, Amory continues to explore routine moments, spotted in the street, captured — usually via camera phone, and then distilled down to their open-ended, ambiguous essence.  

  7. am really digging these
    beautiful originals

  8. Vonn Sumner‘s paintings present a desolate world. His characters stand alone or in small groups in front of solid-color backgrounds, looking battle-ready for a fight that seems to lead to nothing. Masked with paper bags or ski masks, they wield trashcan lids and brooms as if they were weapons, making us question the purpose of their actions.

  9. Following his recent store displays for the Joyce Brand, Mike Stilkey has returned to Hong Kong in grand fashion with Lebasse Projects in the center of the prestigious Times Square mall,  which is known for high-profile art and commercial installations.  Stilkey’s ‘Full of Smiles & Soft Attentions’ features;  a highlight towering piece of female and feline, a clever shark tank piece perhaps a reference to a celebrated and perhaps infamous piece, and several smaller pieces – all made from books,  his signature. 

  10. I cannot get enough of Olaf Hajek. 

    A collection of his most recent work over the last three years was just released in a book called Black Antoinette - A striking selection of personal artwork, editorial contracts, and commercial portraits that showcase a remarkable style.

    Find out more HERE

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