David Ellis lives and works in Brooklyn; where his “motion paintings” travel through time like music, where beats are orchestrated and performed on “drum paintings” stretched and tuned to bass, snare, etc…
Christine Gray’s oil paintings are of models she makes from common craft materials. Each step the artist takes away from the subject through different media, the farther away from reality she takes the viewer. The dioramas are of richly-textured surreal landscapes, but the paintings also include areas that are highly-rendered, mixing it up to speak “o the dysfunction of the “Martha Stewart” system in which individuals imitate models in craft magazines. The work utilizes “failed geometry, failed architecture, and failed illusionism”.
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We came across Erika Calesini’s work, which can be described as sculpture on canvas, at the Milano Bedding stand at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, great big canvases with smashed bicycles amidst many sofas and beds. An upturned bicycle, a mishmash of parts, was actually a lamp, and Teresa’s groceries protruded from the basket of another bike. All mauve, white and grey, but Calesini’s bicycle series covers many more colours on the spectrum.
