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ARTmonday: Amanda Barr

On Thursday I saw the below artwork, “Transforming Masses,” on Madewell’s blog and immediately loved it. It’s promoting new works by the artist, Amanda Barr, on view at the Williamsburg outpost of Brooklyn clothing boutique, Bird. The work is based on her recent trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, where she worked in a printshop on mono prints. There are also landscapes and portraits inspired by a science fiction concept involving fields of gases and minerals and alien bodies that are metamorphosing and diffusing. I love her use of color and the dreamy compositions. To me, “A Foreign Sea” is reminiscent of Chagall. I’ve also included a sampling of some older, more whimsical multimedia pieces at the end.

Transforming Masses

Some Organisms

Mysterious View

Resting

A Foreign Sea

Clayton Volcano

Bringing Good News

Mr. Squash

Older works from Branch Gallery

Golden Owl

Jesus Jeans

Earth Boulder, Fire Boulder, Sky Boulder

Hippo with Flowerflage

Beached Whale of Nightime

Geyser

ARTmonday: Jaime C. Knight and Lena Wolff

I’ve been hanging on to these mixed media works by artists Jaime C. Knight and Lena Wolff since last year (I probably discovered them on The Jealous Curator). This bright and clear summer day seemed like the perfect time to post them. Knight is a grad student at the University of Iowa studying printmaking, and Wolff earned a degree in printmaking at San Francisco State University back is 2003. They showed together at Lake Gallery at San Francisco. First Came Love, which also blogged about the pieces, included a statement from Wolff about the exhibit:

“In the Beginning” features a body of new work and collaborations made by Jaime Knight and I in 2010. Leading up to the show, Jaime and I shared a studio space and worked in response to each other both on individual and jointly made pieces that communicate back and forth in a symbolic narrative. The exhibit includes paper collages, graphite drawings and a light sculpture which draw upon existing and imagined creation myths. Working with elements of light, reflection and patterns of layered collage using a palette of whites, graphite gray and an array of metallic and iridescent surfaces, the work depicts biomorphic mountains, the force of a comet, a haunting tree of life and clusters of expansive constellations.”

What Was, Is and Always Will Be

(My) Morning Star

Gold Feather

Paper Mountain
paper collage with iridescent oil stick, varnish, mica, and hole punch

ARTmonday: Catalina Viejo’s Letter Collages

I pinned one of Catalina Viejo’ letter collages to my Abstracts board on Pinterest the other day, not knowing anything about her. Turns out, that although born in Marbella, Spain, raised in the Canary Islands, and educated in Ireland, Viejo is now basically in my backyard. When I went to her site and saw she was exhibiting on Newbury Street, I thought it must be another Newbury Street, maybe in England. Well, turns out that Viejo attended Montserrat College of Art on the North Shore, and stuck around.

In her artist’s statement she says this about her collages:

I can recall where I have found every piece of paper and I hide information within them. I prefer to use worn papers, which have been stepped on or damaged in any other way, it shows that they already had a history by the time I found them.

The letter collages turn literal words into shapes of color, and specific palettes and structures arrive in each letter. . . Just like any letter, I think about what I want to say and who I am saying it to. I create a psychological portrait . . .

The collages remind me a bit of Lauren DiCioccio’s Color Codification Dot Drawings, but I guess I haven’t blogged about her yet. (Jen Bekman sent me “Vogue 2010” from 20×200 after I featured her in a column on Design MIlk and The Inside Source.)

Letter to the Flowers , 2009

Letter to God, 2008

Letter to my Body, 2009

Letter to Spain, 2010

Letter to Those Who Think Outside the Box, 2009

Letter to Hans Hoffman, 2008

Letter to my Sisters, 2011

Letter to the ones we’ve Lost, 2010

Letter to a Poet, 2008

Letter to Summer, 2008

ARTmonday: Sabine Finkenauer

Sabine Finkenauer is a German-born, Barcelona-based artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the 1980s. I don’t know much about her, but I really like her simple, geometric forms and earthy yet cheerful color palette. The figurative drawings seem, to me, very influenced by Marimekko designs.