"Family Reunion 2" by Travis Somerville

Deeply familiar yet nonetheless confrontational, Travis Somerville’s “Family Renuion” series disrupts nostalgia and memory, insisting on the idea that images and material objects are...

Entitled "Seascape," this painting by Chicago artist Michael Thompson is a departure from the collage work of his ongoing kite series. Rendered in grayscale palette, the painting has...

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. His ongoing series of large-scale kites bridge the gap between flat art and sculpture, each crafted of split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage ephemera – including kimonos, obis, paintings, scrolls, drawings, metal leaf, bleeding paper, book pages, or anything with a story to tell. In this bamboo kite entitled “Ikebana,” Thompson beautifully layers darkly saturated fragments atop pages of found text. A repurposed calligraphy scroll panels the left side, brushed with black ink with full flower blossoms and leafy foliage, while delicate pine branches grow upwards from the bottom. Vintage Japanese block prints...

This work, which required months to complete, features the central figure of Akshobhyavajra, a Tibetan Buddha. Liu Yi, a Beijing-based painter and practicing Buddhist, paints each of...

Giclee print in colours with screenprinted varnish, 2011, on Somerset 330gsm paper, initialled in green pencil, inscribed ‘AP’ (an artist’s proof aside from the edition of 125), from...

Screenprint, 2011, on Somerset Satin 300gsm paper, signed in pencil, inscribed ‘A/P’ (an artist’s proof aside from the edition of 125), from the portfolio Ghosts of Gone Birds, print...

Theatrical figures Tempera painting by Dana Gilbert.

Edward McHugh The Bad Touch, 2020-21 Acrylic, ink, thread, polyester resin on double-refined fiberboard 3 x 56.5 x 45.5 in