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 Art #animals #birds #El Gato Chimney #gouache #painting #surreal #watercolor September 11, 2023 Grace Ebert “Home Sweet Home” (2021), watercolor and gouache on cotton paper, 100 x 70 centimeters. All images © El Gato Chimney, courtesy of Tory Folliard Gallery, William Baczek Fine Arts, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, and Vision West Contemporary, shared with permission Strips of vibrantly patterned …

Low-ResidencyA truly nomadic institution, the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) fuses interactive online education with intensive global residencies. This means that IDSVA’s working art professionals can pursue rigorous advanced scholarship without having to interrupt or abandon their teaching careers, art practice, or other professional responsibilities. Intensive residency sites include Rome, Spannocchia Castle (Tuscany), Venice, Berlin, Paris, …

A selection of work from Toronto-based illustrator and painter Holly Stapleton. Bathed in golden hour light, Stapleton is interested in themes of selfhood, relationships, and nostalgia. She works primarily as an editorial illustrator for clients such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her personal paintings, usually done in oil and gouache, often explore the personification of textiles …

SYRACUSE, New York — On trash days in his home of Utica, New York, sculptor and installation artist Marc-Anthony Polizzi hops into his 15-year-old pickup truck and goes scavenging. He has rules about what materials he picks out of roadside junk piles: nothing that can be donated, nothing absorbent, nothing that another scavenger could turn into cash. The leftovers — …

SANTA FE — Repetition is, forgive the redundancy, a repeated motif in visual art. Repetition’s appeal includes a marking of time, a desire to gain mastery over imagery, process, or material, and an attempt to quiet one’s own discordant mind — in short, to make sense of the world. A popular platform for such duplication is the grid, present in …

“Today, you need to have a story behind the art,” mused Isaac Stein, a New York-based collector, as we stared together at Jenny Morgan’s black-and-white painting of a spectral reclining woman at the booth of Anat Ebgi Gallery. He’s not wrong. Zig-zag your way across the 200-booth floor plan of New York’s Armory Show, back at the Javits Convention Center …

Cheryl Mukherji “Graduate Girls” (2022), archival inkjet print (photo by and courtesy the artist) In its first foray into New York’s Armory Week, Photofairs, dedicated to photography and digital media, opens today, September 8, at the Javits Center, running alongside the massive Armory Show. Originally from Shanghai (save for a two-year stint in San Francisco), the three-day fair held its …

Roxanne Jackson, “Crystal” (2023), ceramic, glaze, luster overall dimensions variable (photo by Pierre Le Hors; courtesy Night) There’s something for everyone at the Armory Show, but good luck trying to figure out how much anything costs. The annual art bazaar, which returned to the Javits Convention Center this week, is as good a place as any to learn which artists are captivating …

When I plugged “Cipriani South Street” into Google Maps on the scorching afternoon of Thursday, September 7, I was met with a descriptive tag notifying me that my destination was a “ritzy Italian eatery for people-watching.” Indeed, the site of the second Independent 20th Century boasts what may be the best-dressed crowd of any art fair preview. The child of …

When I arrived at Pier 36 in the Lower East Side for my first-ever walkthrough of the annual Art on Paper fair, I was looking forward to a celebration of paper-derived work unbridled by the constraints of two-dimensionality, scale, and standard materials and techniques. Instead, I found myself weaving through dozens of booths showcasing what I can only assume were …