Heidi Van Wieren

Untitled (Ruby Rows 0068)

2015

This great piece captures in its blues, emeralds, greens, and whites the elegance of "Sacred Waters." The textures and built-up surface bring light and reflections into the space, an...

This 72 inch square textural mixed media painting on canvas is wired and ready to hang. It is hand signed by the artist on the back of the artwork. This piece is brought to life by a...

This 48 inch square textural mixed media painting on canvas is wired and ready to hang. It is hand signed by the artist on the back of the artwork. This piece is brought to life by a...

1893 PRAGUE 2020 Paris, France Identifying a hypothetical time and place, ‘1893 Prague’ is inspired by the anticipation of opening a letter from the past. The name of the piece and ...

Originally a virtual visualist, Alikov has leaped into the practice of fine art and has gone beyond the visual. He produces conceptual artworks that blend the border of two-dimension...

Originally a virtual visualist, Alikov has leaped into the practice of fine art and has gone beyond the visual. He produces conceptual artworks that blend the border of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art. The intricately-overlapped and embossed canvases, strips of gradient materials, drawn patterns and symbols create an illusionistic dimension. The hard edges, symmetrical curves and the non-narratives speak of scientific systems, futuristic notions, and fashion metaphors. Currently, he is working his way into the seventh “generation” of this series, which started with black and white, sharp-contrast, two-dimensional canvases, was developed into more pristine black fields, and currently progressed on, to mixed-media sculptural objects that he calls assemblages. The materiality aspect of the recent Generation 6 and Generation 7 makes it as if the artist is venturing from order to relative disorder, from simplicity to richness, from monotonic to chromatic. Either entangled, sewn together or carefully arranged and layered, the materials such as nylon straps and buckles, translucent glassine, reflective fabrics, zippers, elastic fasteners, and hand-made mini domes show a bit of the veteran visual effect artist’s “cyber soul”, which is a liberating approach to fine art. Alikov’s exhibition at Lipont...