February 23rd, 2012

Jennifer Mehigan‘s  Armed/Luminous series (2010) mixes paint with found imagery to explore the hidden beauty of fire. The Sydney-based artist’s use of bright brushstrokes undermines the scenes of terror behind by destroying the image  in both material and metaphorical terms, with a clear parallel to Gerhard Richter‘s Overpainted series.

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November 16th, 2011


Montreal-based artist Jon Rafman‘s series New Age Demanded is dominated by a distorted, bodiless figure made from textures and skin taken from paintings by artists – such as Gerhard Richter and Franz Kline – and made anew. With the aid of photoshop, Rafman collages numerous different elements onto the deformed classical bust and its background to mix old with new, high art with low art, and craft with technology. More after the jump.

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December 15th, 2010
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These paintings by Andy Denzler have a Gerhard Richter feel to them but i’ll give them a pass since i’m a sucker for thick paint!

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