Chelsea Velaga

Chelsea Velaga Framed Ink & Wax - Contemporary Mixed Media - "Mudra 2"

2019

A figure reclines in a red and yellow-strapped lawn chair. The figure sitting in the chair is activated by Aldrich’s transformation of paint and resin into oozing swaths of skin between the lawn chair straps. The chair, recalling the grid, works as a pattern trying to hold and contain the body resting inside it. -- Building on her previous show, Main Squeeze, which featured bodies pressing through the grid of lawn chairs, in “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints. The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings...

This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells depicts a surrealist, abstracted landscape of a house. Arches or cloudy blue skies intertwine with dark, geometric shapes. Flashes of steel and aluminum are interwoven by green garden hoses...

This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells was created for an exhibition titled "Gradience." A large oblong shape takes on biomorphic qualities, as its iridescent "skin" exhibits several ...

This sculpture by Kenzie Wells depicts a surrealist landscape and an abstraction of a home or "castle." Stone tiles create a small walkway and steps to an archway, where a blue foam ...

An exercise in language and rule making. Partly intuitive, partly randomized, modular blocks are arranged and rearranged on the letterpress bed. Colors are placed, shifted, or replac...

In ALL ONE, Sue Fox makes a prescient statement about the complex racial issues which plague American life. While originally intended to function as an demographically-accurate ethno...

James Turrell Site Plan with Projected Section and Survey Net, 1992 mylar, beeswax, emulsion, ink, liquitex, wax pastel 41.5" x 60.5" framed Unique Since the 1960s, James Turrell has experimented with visual perception and the materiality of light. Early in his career, he was associated with the Light and Space movement in Southern California and participated in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s landmark 1967-1971 project Art and Technology, which paired artists with emerging industries and technologies of the period. Interested in sensory deprivation and the Ganzfeld effect, his light defined shapes, skyspaces framing the sky, and built environments of horizon-less saturated color provoke a reflexive state that the artist has described as “seeing yourself seeing” – a state in which the viewer is aware of the functioning of their senses and recognizes light as a tangible substance. Since 1979, Turrell has been constructing his magnum opus at the Roden Crater...

Ceravolo's Large scale paintings have received international acclaim for more four decades. His art, came to popular attention when he was commissioned to create 5 large scale oil on canvas portraits for the lobby of The Palladium Theatre in New York City of Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Frank Zappa, Neil Young and Hall and Oates. In addition to those, his paintings are in many influential corporate and private collections, including: ELTON JOHN, ROD STEWART, HUGH M. HEFNER, DAVID BRENNER, MONIQUE VAN VOOREN, WARNER BROS., RCA RECORDS AND SCHENLEY INDUSTRIES to name a few. "Cleopatra 9" consists of 9 separate unique one of a kind canvases featuring women that have portrayed Cleopatra over the years in Film and on stage. From Theda Bara...

Ceravolo's Large scale paintings have received international acclaim for more four decades. His art, came to popular attention when he was commissioned to create 5 large scale oil on...

Ceravolo's Large scale paintings have received international acclaim for more four decades. Known as "The Rock and Roll Painter" and "Painter of the Stars of Rock" by the media, Cera...

Tom Sime experiments with wax to create organic biomorphic compositions. The materials and techniques he employs require extensive knowledge and familiarity with the medium, enabling...

Tom Sime experiments with wax to create organic biomorphic compositions. The materials and techniques he employs require extensive knowledge and fam...