Julian Montague

Original Aerosol on MDF painting by Julian Montague 2015 Modernist Minimalist

2015

An original oil on MDF by contemporary conceptual painter Rob Lynch. This work was part of a recent pop up exhibition The Dreamer Who Dreams, which was curated to raise money for Th...

An original egg tempera and gold leaf on board by American female conceptual contemporary artist Rosemary Lyons. What makes an artist a failure? While strolling through the Metropolitan I was viewing the wing piece of a more extensive altar and observed words etched into the golden grounds. This had a profound resonance with me because of my fascination and utilization of words in all of my work. Next I visited the Cloisters and stood transfixed in front of Robert Campion’s “Annunciation” Of particular interest was the lovely white lily that indicates Mary’s purity. On this same sojourn I witnessed the line out the door and around the block of people waiting to get into a contemporary artist’s retrospective. Is that success? My response began with one painting of lilies...

CF John - Untitled - 24 x 24 inches (unframed size) Ciril Acrylic and high quality cotton fiver on canvas Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Style : C.F. John’s subject brings together the balance of lines and planes, as well as of the rational and emotional in human existence. The results are astonishing – moments of unusual physical calm and motion arrested on the canvas. C.F John is uses his artworks to spread awareness about sensitive issues that affect the society in general. C.F John has also developed an innovative style of adding natural fibres on his canvases.John’s artwork is not easy. It is a continual challenge both to himself and the viewer. Like all else, he sees art as a fluid space which transcends ideologies, and is freed from ‘endless imitation’ of current thoughts in circulation. His deep faith in the earth and its ability to renew itself gives his art an edge that constantly defies definitions, categories and labels. In communion with the natural world, his art remains fresh and alive. About the Artist and his work : Born : 1960, Kerala. Education : • Initiations in Art under Jyothi Sahi at Silvepura, Bangalore. • Disciple of Anthony Devasy of Kalakendra, Thrissur . Selected Solo Exhibitions : • 2005 ‘Landscape Parables’, Malabar House, Kochi. • 1997 Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore. • 1997 Mainz and Saarbrucken, Germany. • 1991 Alliance Francaise, Bangalore. Selected Group Exhibitions : • 2011 'Cross Currents', Art Positive, New Delhi. • 2010 'Roots in the Contemporary', presented by Mahua Art Gallery, Bangalore at Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai. • 2009 'The Still Point in a Turning World', Galerie Métanoïa, Paris & 'The Root of Everything', Gallery Memento, Bangalore. • 2008 'Deeper Than Skin', DAIRA Centre for Arts and Culture, Hyderabad ; 'In Small Format', Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata & 'Young Contemporary India', Gallery Kolkata, Kolkata. • 2007 ‘Emerging India’, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London & ‘In the Fore’, Noble Sage Art...

Vibrant portrait of a laughing woman by Chelsea Frost. Executed in a fauvist style, this piece is bright and highly saturated. The woman is framed very ...