Marcus Manganni

Acrylic Collaboration with Amber Ibarreche, Pins with X Print

2019

VANDYKE is a site specific tape installation by Dustin Hedrick. This work explores portraiture by enveloping the viewer in vast fields of pattern & texture. Lines unfold like cobwebs...

"Mirror" is a site specific installation that was exhibited in the show "Dialects of Place(s) by Land Report Collective at COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN. In this piece, Jobe uses industrial materials such as insulation foam, concrete, window screen, and graphite tracing paper to create a patterned structure that protrudes from the corner and carries the viewer's eye upward. At the bottom of the piece, we see delicately balanced concrete on top of pale blue insulation foam. The patterned concrete and insulation foam carries the viewer's eye upwards towards another pop of blue on top of the aluminum window screen frame. The screen gives the viewer a window in which to look through the piece. On one side, this mesh frames the graphite paper and on the other side the viewer can see the patterned concrete and insulation foam. Review from "The Rib" about "Mirror" One of the more surprising works here is Nashville-based Brian Jobe...

"Cobwebs & Catacombs" is a site specific tape installation by Dustin Hedrick. This work explores portraiture by enveloping the viewer in vast fields of pattern & texture. Lines unfol...

In "Holes and Slices", Peña creates a silhouette of house and fills it with bubbly curved shapes and contrasts them with sharpe-edged shapes that contain gradients and muted tones of aqueous colors such as teal and light blue. He balances these colors with muted tones of pink and violet. The viewer can create a house that is yet to be built in between the gaps here. In "Holes and Slices", Peña remarks on a house and landscape that has yet to be built. The aquatic nature seems to hint at the possibility of a house and landscape under water. The painting is created with watercolor and acrylic paint on paper. In the foreground we see Sintra board or flattened PVC that has been CNC routed. In the "soil" beneath the house are small bubble-like cut outs where the viewer can see through to the pattern created with watercolor and acrylic paint. Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment and national psyche. The realization that both the idealistic pursuit of happiness and the relevance of painting in a technologically driven world informs his practice. With each composition the labor begins with digital composites of a fragmented American landscape in peril —where tension lies in the contrasts between past and present, analog and digital, representation and abstraction, and stability and instability. In his most recent series the American home (stability) and fragmented and shifting landscape (instability) are veiled by a digitally produced mat. Traditionally a mat is, by definition, a flat, thin piece of paper based material included within the picture frame and serves as additional decoration when framing artwork. He activates this commonly overlooked material by using a non-traditional material, Sintra (flattened sheet of PVC), that has a negative digitally drawn image cut-out. This cut-out might, at first glance, look hand cut however, a more astute viewer would realize the precision is mechanical. The mat has been transformed from inactive decoration to digitally produced veil that represents the technologically anxious precision we surround ourselves with. Nick Peña...

Linda King Ferguson describes her "Equivalence Series" as social bodies; a re-thinking of Modernist figurative abstraction. They are a discursive formal and reductive language. As fi...

Eleanor Aldrich’s paper and caulking drawings are about the tension between physicality and image. The photographic qualities of the found images used for transfer contrast with the ...

"One American Dollar - Silver Nr. 5", 2023, 80 x 120 x 14 cm, is a unique mixed media work by German pop artist Devin Miles. The artist works like Wahol with a hand screenprint. The...

The Surface of Water 31 x 40 x 5.5 in Mixed Media on Hand-Sculpted Acrylic Shimmering blue wall sculpture made by Paul Rousso. A dimensional piece that reflects light beautifully. ...

Reflections II, 2018 Oil on canvas with painted acrylic and wood 31 x 41 x 3 1/2 inches Signed and dated, verso

"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...

"Sensatrac", mixed media on panel — 48 x 72 x 2 inches — 2014. (b. 1956) Mark Vinci is a Phoenix-based mixed media artist and a recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Found...

Steven Gagnon is a Miami Beach-based artist born in 1973 whose work focuses on critiquing American culture using classic iconography. He is known internationally for his paintings, p...