Trudy Benson

Trudy Benson Studio View

Trudy Benson
Inside Out, 2010
Oil on canvas
72 x 80 inches

Brooklyn based artist Trudy Benson now with Horton Gallery in New York. I love this work.

KF + CM 4EVER

Keltie Ferris
!@#$%^&*()
2010
Oil, acrylic, oil pastel & sprayed paint on canvas
80x80"

Keltie's work is non-verbal, more like noise then language, more akin to flashing lights and potential energies then anything nameable. Therefore each painting is titled by a set of punctuation marks, such as (((!!!))) created by the artist and are emblematic of the emotive, nearly expletive nature of her work. Other titles (including the title of the show) allude to bathroom graffiti, notebook valentines, as well as the ambition of marking a space and marking a future.

Excerpt from the Horton Gallery Press Release November 18 - December 30, 2010.

Red, Yellow Blue

Portia Hein
Starry Night, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 36"

Portia Hein
Pastel forrest (PH10_15), 2010
Oil on canvas
36 x 48"

Portia Hein's newest paintings and drawings continue her translation of the natural world into a personally resonant language of marks, color and texture. Images of birds, trees and celestial bodies find themselves coalescing or breaking apart amidst rays of light, night skies and turpentine washes...Working largely from memory, Hein draws on the emotional as well as the physical attributes of place. Like memory, the surfaces of her paintings are varied. Some parts are thick, vibrant and richly textured, while others, like gaps in memory, are thinly painted and vaguely suggested rather than wholly depicted.

Excerpt from the Traywick Contemporary Press Release October 3 - December 18, 2010 .

Moonmilk

Ryan McGinley
Blood Falls, 2008/2009
C-print
66 x 101.6 cms / 26 x 40 ins

Alison Jacques Gallery announces the first UK solo show of acclaimed American artist Ryan McGinley with an exhibition of 24 new colour photographs shot in caves across North America. Over the last year, McGinley and his crew explored huge caves underground, venturing into unknown territory, seeking out spectacular natural spaces, some previously undocumented. The title of the show “Moonmilk” alludes to the crystalline deposits found on the walls of many caves; it was once believed that this substance was formed by light from celestial bodies passing through rock into darkened worlds below.

Excerpt from the Alison Jacques Gallery Press Release September 11 - October 8, 2009

Albert Oehlen

Albert Oehlen

Del ahorro, 2008
Oil and paper on canvas
106 1/4 x 122 inches

In this new group of works, Oehlen paints over, under and around Spanish advertisement posters. The original commercial content of the posters is undermined by Oehlen's reworking of those images as well as his juxtaposition of unrelated advertisements. His interest lies not in the manipulation of pop iconography, but rather in the unnerving emotional effects generated by its obtrusive presence. In contrast with previous work, the use of paint has been reduced, giving focus to the center of the composition and emphasizing the subtle interactions between the paint and the posters. These highly charged paintings eschew formal convention and ultimately advance the medium's function through the artist's continued practice of the deliberate negation of imagery.

Excerpt from the Luhring Augustine Exhibition, APR 25 - MAY 30, 2009

Albert Oehlen
Untitled, 2008
mixed media on paper
11.75" x 8.25"

Albert Oehlen is also exhibiting with Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago, May 14 - June 27, 2009

Cy Twombly

Installation view

Each painting comprises four wood panels on which three roses in full bloom are depicted in pulsating colours, ranging from deepest burgundy to tangerine, gold, violet and crimson, set against a background of vibrant turquoise. Inscribed on the last panel of each painting are fragments from Rilke's poem cycle "The Roses." Stanzas scrawled in a gestural mode reflect Twombly's characteristic conflation of painting and poetry, image and word...Some aspects of Twombly's new works recall his earlier cycle of paintings, Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair (1985), now in The Menil Collection, Houston, which also referred to quotations by Rilke, as well as Rumi and Giacomo Leopardi, embracing conceptions of nature dominated by its inevitable demise....

Excerpt from the Gagosian Gallery London exhibition, February 12 - May 9, 2009

German Enlightenment

Anton Henning
Interieur No. 384, 2007
Oil on linen
74.21 x 86.5 inches

Zach Feuer Gallery's second exhibition of work by German artist Anton Henning includes paintings from 2000 - 2008 and offers an insightful overview of Henning's painterly preoccupations. The titles (Interior, Portrait or Still life) announce rather traditional themes. Henning's headstrong definition of these paint motifs, however, challenges our way to categorize art by blurring the borders between genres. The show title "German Enlightenment" is a reference to both the artist's cultural background and to the tangible fact that the paintings are illuminated only from the light within the frames. The gallery space is transformed into a room-filling self-illuminating installation; the paintings stand out from the wall and capture the exhibition space.

Excerpt from the Zach Feuer Gallery exhibition, October 15 - November 26, 2008