Documentation of Richard Ayodeji Ikhide at Candice Madey, New York is available at Contemporary Art Library.
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Monday Musings — 27MAY24
There’s more great stuff (not political) here: https://www.saatchiart.com/neozero
His statement:
I am from Portland, Oregon and I am an artist here in the Pacific Northwest. Most of my work is figurative in nature but extends into abstract expressionism with a focus on portraiture, faces and geometric shapes.
Here’s Geir Opdal: http://geiropdal.com/inks-2/
This is my online museum and store. You can wander from room to room and listen to conversation between paintings. You may also buy a signed print or an original work.
Wolff Land is the geographical state of my imagination. In my mind it is an actual place where islands are limned in gold as the sea tongues up fantastic shores.
Sphinxes wade through clear golden water among huge fields of grass (Sphinxland), hybrid dream creatures have multi canvas adventures (Catspider) and sometimes faces of friends show up (Portraits). The stories are driven by movement and color: stars unfol)d in vertical clouds over a mountainside
of blue thistles (The Mermaid’s Feet), a man wanders through a falling down house as birds fly through his heart (Waltz). But always I try to paint the
impossible: Light—light of the sun on objects, on water, the light of stars, the light around an amazing event; the light of love.
And, finally, here’s something from me:
Kirsty Elson Transforms Driftwood and Detritus into Whimsical Animal Sculptures — Colossal
For artist Kirsty Elson, a sliver of of driftwood or a scrap of metal is more than just a piece of trash.
Source: Kirsty Elson Transforms Driftwood and Detritus into Whimsical Animal Sculptures — Colossal
Juxtapoz Magazine – A Wavy Place: Gabrielle Garland Gives a New Perspective
Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection – The Marginalian
His paintings, loose and bright, become analogues of how abstract yet vivid the most interior experiences are — amorphous shapes saturated with feeling, blurry arrangements of contrasting parts of the self.
A Vibrant Rascality of Shenanigans: The Fantasticalicizm Of Anna Mond – Unquiet Things
The creations borne of Anna Mond’s marvelously strange brain noodles are gleefully grotesque, wickedly cheeky, ghoulishly precious brouhahas with a through line of the weirdest humor s…
Source: A Vibrant Rascality of Shenanigans: The Fantasticalicizm Of Anna Mond – Unquiet Things
Raven Speaks Acrylic on Canvas – Etsy
This Acrylic Painting item is sold by khperkins. Ships from Bangor, ME.
BEN VENOM
Source: Past — BEN VENOM
Ben Venom graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 with a Master of Fine Arts degree. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally including the Levi Strauss Museum (Germany), National Folk Museum of Korea, HPGRP Gallery (Tokyo), Fort Wayne Museum, Charlotte Fogh Gallery (Denmark), Taubman Museum of Art, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed by NPR: All Things Considered, Playboy, Juxtapoz Magazine, KQED, Maxim, and CBS Sunday Morning. Venom has lectured at the California College of Arts, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Midlands Art Centre, Humboldt State University, Oregon College of Art and Craft, and Adidas. Recently, he was the artist in residence at MASS MoCA and the de Young Museum. Ben Venom is currently Visiting Faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Also:
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/ben-venom-king-of-heavy-metal-quilting
Monday Musings — 29APR24
Well, it’s been a couple of weeks. Been sick. I was actually in the hospital last Monday. I fainted due to some med changes, and all my blood work numbers were BAD on Friday the 19th. Been home a couple of days, with more med changes and feeling okay so far. Let’s say that having Multiple Myeloma, and a heart condition sucks ass.
Here’s an artist I never heard of before. Love his work, go explore his site.
https://jesscollins.org/paintings-romantic
Here’s another cool artist: https://yinkashonibare.com/
So to change the subject for a second; electric vehicles. Talking about rickshaws or 3 wheel electric bikes, and how in some places they are leaving EVs in the dust. https://restofworld.org/2024/e-rickshaw-yc-electric-india
I think a city (this doesn’t work quite as well for rural areas)that has a mix of electric bikes, trikes, rickshaws, and EVs, plus public transportation that’s reliable, sounds like a great place to be. If I had an electric trike (not a bike for me, my balance isn’t that great) I could be a bit more independent. I could get a little exercise without over stressing my body, and go to stores and restaurants and be outside a bit more (except in winter, here). This would help a lot of seniors also.
Well that’s it for today, back next Monday for more stuff. Keep your powder dry, and remember solutions are everywhere. Just got to turn over the right rocks.
A challenge to herself
Even her novels are, in a sense, commentary on her novels. The books of Earthsea grow in subtlety and wisdom, one to the next: The Tombs of Atuan a correction to A Wizard of Earthsea, Tehanu a correction to the whole fantasy genre. (Tehanu also boasts, I have to add, the best climax I have ever read in any novel, of any genre. In every climax, we should encounter the protagonist’s best efforts, and something extra: the breath of the gods. In Tehanu’s climax, the breath is STRONG.)
Source: A challenge to herself