Virginia Mahoney

"Comparing Outliers", contemporary, blue, gold, black, orange, metal, sculpture

2014

John Baker’s “On the Beach”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 68 x 46 x 1.5 inches in lavenders, maroons and Van Dyck browns, depicts a couple together in fantastic costumes as they brave a dark world. Conjoined as bodies, they form a powerful dyad of selves expressing triumph rather than mere forbearance. Their thoughts and feelings, brilliant flashes of light lavender and yellow above and between their heads, are like insights and interpersonal connections illuminating the darkness. The painting’s title and meaning allude to Neville Shute’s On the Beach and, subliminally, to Matthew Arnold...

"Native to Brazil", by Anne Sargent Walker, is a deliciously yellow green oil, acrylic and collage painting on stretched canvas depicting tropical flora of vines and flowers surround...

John Baker’s “Old Madman #4”, an imaginary portrait 14 x 18 x .75 inches in flesh tones, greys, browns and whites, is from the artist’s important “Madman Series”. As Yeats wrote: “An...

John Baker’s “Young Man with a Device” is a 19 x 14.25 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas depicting a youth possessively clutching a technological device. The large, ...

Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...

Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...

Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial...

Jim Rattenbury’s work is of our time, yet it is filled with signs from other eras, both distant pasts and distant futures. He creates marks on his works that are accessible to childr...