Federico Cortese

Pincushion, Painting, Oil on Paper

2012

Summary of features: Medium & materials: oil on thick paper / Paper weight: 290 gr/mq / Finishing: protective varnish / Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2017 / Certificate ...

An original piece from the series "The measurement of space", oil and pencil on paper, 54 x 42 cm, 2014. I am a terrible chess player, because every time I play, I get distracted...

Summary of features: oil on thick paper - Paper weight: 290 gr/mq - Finishing: protective varnish- Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2019 - Surface of the paper: rough. :: Pa...

From the series “Blenderâ€

An incredibly striking and vibrant surrealist still life, showing a basket full of phallic plantain and oranges. In front of the basket are strange objects made of string and coloured balls. The artist shows an truly skilled hand with the execution of this hype realist style. The painting has been finished with a dramatic thickly poured paint...

"Strengths and Weaknesses" is a portrait exploring several elements and strategies that fascinate the artist – notably the performance anxiety induced by simply being an artist, staring down the freight train of art history as it hurtles toward you every time you pick up a brush. Luck? Talent? Maybe. There are signposts and guides in this painting, of course (Cubism! Surrealism! Brancusi! Guston!), but they can clobber you too if you're not careful. Even the phrase "strengths and weaknesses" smacks of compromises and rationalization – deadly to an artist looking to construct their own integral world. "Strengths and Weaknesses" is an acrylic and charcoal on canvas measuring 54" tall by 54" wide. It was included in the artist's solo show "Comedy Cellar" at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York City in July 2018. (See last photograph for an installation view.) From Daniel Gerwin – "Schenck’s color is vibrant, wild, saturated to the point of overheating, and altogether brilliant in the balancing of hues, temperatures, shapes, and color quantities. The paintings have a remarkable coherence for their dizzying juxtaposition of so many small chromatic passages." (Essay: The Anxiety and the Ecstasy) Peter Schenck...

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Ashlee received her BFA with a Minor in Art History from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2012 and has been exhibiting and selling her artwork for the past twelve years. When she’s not making art, Ashlee loves to get lost in her garden with her four year old son where they battle pirates on lost islands, fly with dragons around kingdoms in the sky, and search lush jungles for purple tigers.