Doug Britt

The Balance

2000

Claudio Dicochea de Margarita y Oscar, las cuatas Rosa y Maria, y el motor del futuro (of Margarita and Oscar, the twins Rose and Mary, and the engine of survival), 2020 acrylic, graphite and transfer on wood 12" x 12" Born in San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico and raised on the Mexican/US border in southern Arizona, Claudio Dicochea works at the intersection of colonialism, art history and contemporary popular culture. Using the model of the 18th century genre of Casta paintings...

Artist: Leslie Bostrom Title: In Spite of Everything Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas and Plywood Size: 110 x 140 inches Year: 2017 Leslie Bostrom is a Professor of Art at Brown Univer...

"Love Letters to Rocks" employs reductive abstraction as a method to explore futility in representation in his paintings as well as a means to display the subject of devotion, rocks....

Hudson, NY - based artist Jason Middlebrook. Middlebrook takes inspiration from lived experience and the natural world with his signature hardwood paintings. Familiar yet enigmatic, the sky in its various forms serves as muse in "Skies." Never the same twice, the sky is ever-changing, differing dramatically from place to place and throughout each day. At times seemingly benevolent and at others cruel, the vast sky is in constant diaphanous conversation with the landscape and activity below. Middlebrook’s signature “canvas” of polished cross...

Hudson, NY - based artist Jason Middlebrook. Middlebrook takes inspiration from lived experience and the natural world with his signature hardwood paintings. Familiar yet enigmatic, the sky in its various forms serves as muse in "Skies." Never the same twice, the sky is ever-changing, differing dramatically from place to place and throughout each day. At times seemingly benevolent and at others cruel, the vast sky is in constant diaphanous conversation with the landscape and activity below. Middlebrook’s signature “canvas” of polished cross...

Jason Middlebrook has long been interested in man’s complex and often adversarial relationship with nature. The straight lines and precise angles in his paintings might be found in math, architecture, and industry more readily than in grassy meadows or dense forests. But relying solely on this sort of metonymy is limiting. A more nuanced read reveals some of Middlebrook’s geometric patterns are also inspired by nature. Crystals and geodes...