Tag: contemporary painting
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Regan Rosburg: The Understory exhibition essay for David B. Smith Gallery
Regan Rosburg is inspired by the humble network of life that proliferates on the forest floor, in the shade, beneath the canopy of trees that sore above, blocking out the precious sunlight. The artist collects objects and insects from the deciduous forest of Northeastern Tennessee where she lives on a small farm with her fiancĂ©.…
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Isca Greenfield-Sanders & Marc Brandenburg in Denver
Since the advent of photography, visual artists have taken to using photographic images as raw data they then translate from film or digital file to their chosen medium. With the death of film upon us, more and more contemporary artists seem to be exploring what that means. Currently on view in Denver are two such…
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Dena Schuckit: The Garden is a Raging Sea essay for David B. Smith Gallery
Though not a realist, Schuckit’s categorizing of headline imagery is similar. She creates a raster of images and allows them to produce a rhizome of new impressions. The scale of these average-sized paintings is large, perhaps larger than life, as indicated by the tiny human figures in the bottom foreground of Aerial Event 2, which…