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July 9, 2012 · 6:00 am

ARTmonday: Kate Lewis’ Interior Paintings

Influenced by the rehabbing and decorating of her Victorian home, Chicago artist Kate Lewis creates interior paintings in acrylic and watercolor. The scope ranges from full rooms to the details, like a sliver of a stack of kilim rugs. All are full of wonderful color and pattern.

Nate’s House

Radiant Settee

Sister Chaise

Kilims are Kool

Look at that Rug and Half of a Black Chair in progress

Look at that Rug and Half of a Black Chair

Did Someone Say Pattern?

Just Imagine

Breakfast Nook

Kitchen with Blue Dog and Ladder

Fearlessly Mixing Patterns

Confetti

Blue Bedroom

Tribal Doodle inspiration + finished work

Tribal Doodle

Lollipop

Lollipop in progress

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May 7, 2012 · 6:08 am

ARTmonday: Diana Delgado Colorful Abstract Paintings

I discovered painter Diana Delgado on Elements of Style, in which Erin Gates went bananas for the leopard print swatch in the first painting below. Based in New York, Delgado received her MFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2007 and her BFA from Syracuse in 2005. I love the colors in these paintings—note the neon—and mix of geometric forms with drips. In her artist’s statement she explains:

While color is a driving force behind decisions made on the canvas, raw gesture, geometric shapes/forms and pattern play important roles. Representational elements and seemingly unstable architectural structures exist within the abstract atmospheres. . . Reoccurring themes in the large-scale canvases are personal narrative, glam, fashion and the embracing of frivolousness.

You Can Lead a Horse to Water

Menstrual Mountain

Chocolate Fountain

She Could Drape it in Color

Cotton Candy Love

Neon Deer

White Goose Blue Jeans

Untitled-(Ribbons-and-Things)

YoungmanGirl

Copycat Cluster

Chandelier

Double Bubble

Rabbit Ears

And a Hot Air Balloon

Smelly Yellow

ARTmonday: Tim Bavington

Las Vegas based artist Tim Bavington is known for his vertically-oriented stripe paintings. While many of his works are rigid, the ones I like best are blurred and drippy. The paintings are abstract interpretations of music.

Using synthetic polymer paint, Bavington translates guitar solos, melodies, and bass lines, including those from The Darkness, Oasis, and The Rolling Stones, into vibrant bands of color. Although Bavington has a method that designates sound to color and composition, the paintings are not literal translations.

He also creates some that have an ink-blot sort of feel, though I’m not certain these are also related to music.

Step In (Out), 2007
synthetic polymer on canvas
Installation at Las Vegas Diaspora at Las Vegas Art Museum, 2007
Collection Mondstudio, Hamburg, Germany

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Cannonball, 2010
synthetic polymer and ink on paper
Collection of Museum of Fine Arts Houston

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Blue Monday, 2010
synthetic polymer and ink on paper

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Get Happy!, 2010
synthetic polymer and ink on paper

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Get Happy!, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Happy Today, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Up In Suze’s Room, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Jump, 2006
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Buddy Holly(Weez), 2007
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Heart Above Head, 2011
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Cold Fire, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Study for Manic (Positive), 2010
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Heart Above Head #3, 2011
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Bold as Love, 2010
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Falling Down, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Heart Above Head #5, 2011
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Bavington’s work is included in the collections of MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Portland Art Museum in Oregon, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Denver Art Museum, among others.

He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in NYC and Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica.

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January 16, 2012 · 8:02 am

ARTmonday: Lee Essex Doyle “Dreams of Dawnridge”

Boston-based artist (and one of my dearest friends) Lee Essex Doyle is showing her newest series of paintings, “Dreams of Dawnridge” at Child’s Gallery in Boston. It’s on view until this Saturday, January 21, so if you’re on Newbury Street, try to pop in for a look. They’re absolutely beautiful. The pieces are based on L.A. artist and designer Tony Duquette’s ornate home, called Dawnridge.