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09-01-2015, 04:52 PM
Hot off the Easel is a new monthly feature blog that I am introducing with this edition. It is designed to showcase a cross-section of vital and varied contemporary paintings. - John Seed
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Artist Ayn Choi with We're All Fragile Beings and Do What We Can To Survive
2012-2015, Paint on polycarbonate, 12'x10'
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Kate Kretz, Gunlicker I, 2015
Oil and acrylic on Gatorboard, 20" x 16", photo by Greg Staley
"This is the first in an ongoing series on the fetishization of guns in our country." - Kate Kretz
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Michael Pearce, Nimbus, 2015
Oil on canvas, 48" x 60"
"Nimbus is part of a series of paintings I made about love: you can't deconstruct love - it's too real." - Michael Pearce
Nimbus will be in an exhibit titled "Love" from September 3rd - 25th at:
The Blackboard Gallery (http://www.studiochannelislands.org/gallery/)
2222 Ventura Boulevard
Camarillo, CA 93010
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Chet Glaze, You told me I was the only one, 2015
Acrylic on canvas, gold leaf on wood, 60" x 73"
"This painting reflects a few years worth of effort in defining my personal relationship to a public space and its subsequent destruction." - Chet Glaze
Currently on view through September 12th at Patrick Painter Inc (http://patrickpainter.com). as part of Jagged Negotiations.
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Kim Frohsin, Seeing Red: Cone #1, 2015
Mixed media on rag board, 24 1/8" x 19 3/8"
"This painting came to being as an immediate reaction/result of an internal, visceral rage: a sense of entrapment and bewilderment I felt back in July while stuck in a huge bumper-to-bumper traffic jam trying to the Bay Bridge to get home." - Kim Frohsin
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Tony Pro, Kanye vs. Sumo or the Death of Music, 2015
Oil on linen, 22" x 22" © Tony Pro Fine Art
"The image of Kanye West is merely a symbol, of which there are many, to underscore not only the complete and utter erosion of pop culture but our own shortcomings as a society to what we now call celebrity." - Tony Pro
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Grant Drumheller, Escalator, 2015
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 72" x 108"
Escalator at the Beaubourg is a recent image, never shown, that explores the magical quality of human beings in separate vignettes, moving through an urban space, in league with light, color and pattern. - Grant Drumheller
Grant Drumheller: Between Worlds is on view at Gordon College (http://www.gordon.edu/grantdrumheller) through October 14, 2015
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Kyle Staver, Waterfall and Red Fox, 2015
Oil on canvas, 68" x 58"
"Each year I paint Tom, my husband, an anniversary love letter: this is this year's."
- Kyle Staver
Kyle Staver: Tall Tales
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects (http://www.shfap.com)
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Artist Ayn Choi with We're All Fragile Beings and Do What We Can To Survive
2012-2015, Paint on polycarbonate, 12'x10'
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-31-1440991726-6367991-gunlickerI_hires_Kretz-thumb.jpg (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-31-1440991726-6367991-gunlickerI_hires_Kretz.jpg)
Kate Kretz, Gunlicker I, 2015
Oil and acrylic on Gatorboard, 20" x 16", photo by Greg Staley
"This is the first in an ongoing series on the fetishization of guns in our country." - Kate Kretz
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-31-1441051322-504840-Michael_Pearce_Nimbus-thumb.jpg (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-31-1441051322-504840-Michael_Pearce_Nimbus.jpg)
Michael Pearce, Nimbus, 2015
Oil on canvas, 48" x 60"
"Nimbus is part of a series of paintings I made about love: you can't deconstruct love - it's too real." - Michael Pearce
Nimbus will be in an exhibit titled "Love" from September 3rd - 25th at:
The Blackboard Gallery (http://www.studiochannelislands.org/gallery/)
2222 Ventura Boulevard
Camarillo, CA 93010
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-31-1441051452-9224832-Chet_Glaze_2-thumb.jpg (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-31-1441051452-9224832-Chet_Glaze_2.jpg)
Chet Glaze, You told me I was the only one, 2015
Acrylic on canvas, gold leaf on wood, 60" x 73"
"This painting reflects a few years worth of effort in defining my personal relationship to a public space and its subsequent destruction." - Chet Glaze
Currently on view through September 12th at Patrick Painter Inc (http://patrickpainter.com). as part of Jagged Negotiations.
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-31-1441059660-8502138-cone-thumb.jpg (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-31-1441059660-8502138-cone.jpg)
Kim Frohsin, Seeing Red: Cone #1, 2015
Mixed media on rag board, 24 1/8" x 19 3/8"
"This painting came to being as an immediate reaction/result of an internal, visceral rage: a sense of entrapment and bewilderment I felt back in July while stuck in a huge bumper-to-bumper traffic jam trying to the Bay Bridge to get home." - Kim Frohsin
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-09-01-1441076239-2323453-Kanye-thumb.jpg (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-09-01-1441076239-2323453-Kanye.jpg)
Tony Pro, Kanye vs. Sumo or the Death of Music, 2015
Oil on linen, 22" x 22" © Tony Pro Fine Art
"The image of Kanye West is merely a symbol, of which there are many, to underscore not only the complete and utter erosion of pop culture but our own shortcomings as a society to what we now call celebrity." - Tony Pro
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-09-01-1441081420-7605076-escalator-thumb.jpg (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-09-01-1441081420-7605076-escalator.jpg)
Grant Drumheller, Escalator, 2015
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 72" x 108"
Escalator at the Beaubourg is a recent image, never shown, that explores the magical quality of human beings in separate vignettes, moving through an urban space, in league with light, color and pattern. - Grant Drumheller
Grant Drumheller: Between Worlds is on view at Gordon College (http://www.gordon.edu/grantdrumheller) through October 14, 2015
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-09-01-1441114828-2800139-Fox-thumb.jpg (http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-09-01-1441114828-2800139-Fox.jpg)
Kyle Staver, Waterfall and Red Fox, 2015
Oil on canvas, 68" x 58"
"Each year I paint Tom, my husband, an anniversary love letter: this is this year's."
- Kyle Staver
Kyle Staver: Tall Tales
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects (http://www.shfap.com)
September 9 - October 11 -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=terms.html/) It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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