Lucha Rodriguez

Knife Drawing Papagayo I - Contemporary Manipulated Textured Paper(Yellow+Beige)

2019

"Knife Drawing Papagayo VI" is a contemporary drawing made entirely of knife cuts. Lucha Rodríguez captures light with paper, paint, and texture with t...

"Knife Drawing III" is a contemporary drawing made entirely of knife cuts. Lucha Rodríguez captures light with paper, paint, and texture with thousands...

"Knife Drawing VII" is a contemporary drawing made entirely of knife cuts. Lucha Rodríguez captures light with paper, paint, and texture with thousands...

"Knife Drawing XXIII" is a contemporary drawing made entirely of knife cuts. Lucha Rodríguez captures light with paper, paint, and texture with thousands of cuts. Her audience is for...

The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow. ​He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle. Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...

Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a aluminum silver frame, glass. Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...

Thiago Rocha Pitta Untitled, 2006 Watercolor on paper 30 x 23 inches Brazil-based artist Thiago Rocha Pitta’s (b. 1980) temporal and sensitive body of work depicts interventions wit...

Thiago Rocha Pitta Untitled, 2006 Watercolor on paper 30 x 23 inches Brazil-based artist Thiago Rocha Pitta’s (b. 1980) temporal and sensitive body of work depicts interventions wit...