Emily Berger

Fire and Ice (Abstract painting)

2020

(r)evolution 31 (Abstract painting) Pigmented Beeswax, Oil & Collage on Panel. Unframed. This painting is part of a series titled (r)evolution which started in 2014. This process...

Oil on wood panel - Unframed. She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the surface. An interplay of co...

Elegy (Abstract painting) Oil on wood panel - Unframed. She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the ...

Hit it (Abstract painting) Oil on wood panel - Unframed. She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the...

Honey Cream Violet Ink (Abstract Painting) Oil on Panel - Unframed The dimension of the entire piece (the way it is shown hanging) is approximately 17X19/43.2x48.3cm Dimensions of ...

In a Heartbeat (Abstract painting) Oil on wood panel - Unframed. She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to botto...

Stunning textural abstract aerial landscape painting by Hungarian artist Levente Baranyai. Oil on panel, 37.5 x 50 inches. With a focus on aerial urb...

Size: 4ft x 8ft Mixed Media: oil, saw dust and foam on wooden panel. Steven is now one of the top emerging artists in the U.S. His works are ground breaking, bold and imbued with u...

Leslie Zelamsky's "Point of Departure 2" is a 42 x 42 x 2.75 inch mixed-media painting on wood panel. This abstract painting contains an assortment of ...

Randi Joe in the snow. Mixed Media oil paint, paint, pigment, crystal rock, wood panel artist unique style and technic, the frame is part of the artwork. Randi Grantham...

The Forgotten America. Mixed Media oil paint, tar, gravel. metal, resin on wood panel artist unique style and technic, the frame is part of the artwork. Randi Grantham...

Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else? Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north. An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made. Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent. Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper, a rusted stove—is juxtaposed with the soft glow of a yellow circle. This continues Houston’s ongoing use of colour to question the particulars of perception. Heritage of All, White with Greed and Iron, and The Spaces we Breath, Houston’s titles read like lines of a haiku. Composed as prose, they are also confrontational, mapping out the cultural and environmental impacts of the extraction of resources in the Arctic. We witness scenes of violent decay, and yet simply carry on, like Business As Usual. In What Nations Come and Go a pale purple oval nearly fills the frame, revealing only in the very far right a simple cabin in front of a rocky incline. A similar imposing cloud of colour, this time blue, dominates the landscape in Mapped, Claimed, and Evaluated. The north is just as much an idea as it is a place, and is one that looms large in the Canadian imagination. There are few better examples than Glenn Gould...