Joe Lotto

Color

2019

"Presto," 2019. Enamel on panel, sign painting, black, white, yellow, green and red. Hand lettering, car, weathered, border, and text.

"Cut," 2019. Enamel on panel, sign painting, black, white, yellow, green and red. Hand lettering, weathered, and text. ...

"Adult Photo," 2019. Enamel on panel, sign painting, black, white, yellow, green and red. Hand lettering, weathered, and text. ...

"Palm Tree," 2019. Enamel on panel, sign painting, black, white, yellow, green and red.

"Apple," 2019. Enamel on panel, sign painting, black, white, yellow, green and red. Hand lettering, weathered, apple, and text. ...

"Low Price," 2019. Enamel on panel, sign painting, black, white, yellow, green and red. Hand lettering, name badge, and text. ...

In the series of paintings titled “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 of young women based on Nancy Drew...

REDSKIN is one of eight pieces in Nashville based artist Omari Booker's series for his solo show “Red Line” at Channel to Channel. Booker’s new series of work is centered around the...

A cello is held up between the legs of its accompanying musician in a snowy landscape. Snow has collected on the protruding bits of Cello and on the tops of the musician's knees. Though we can't see the face of the musician, we see their bare arms, folding upwards, as if they have buried their face in their hands. -- 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...

Mat Tomezsko's "NOW" series of mixed media street art paintings are built through an elaborate process of layering, patterning, adding, and subtracting an...

Mat Tomezsko's "NOW" series of mixed imedia street art paintings are built through an elaborate process of layering, patterning, adding, and subtracting an excessive amount of acryli...

Mat Tomezsko's "NOW" series of mixed media street art paintings are built through an elaborate process of layering, patterning, adding, and subtracting an excessive amount of acrylic...