Simone Fattal’s Timeless Journeys
For six decades, the Syrian-born artist has brought a quiet sense of tragedy, derived from ancient art and epics, to the global contemporary art scene.
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Diedrick Brackens Interweaves Black History, Myth, and Self-Portraiture
In a strange twist of fate, Diedrick Brackens's new weavings arrived in the world at about the same time as COVID-19, a disease that, like AIDS, disproportionately affects black Americans.
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Jesse Mockrin
Painter Jesse Mockrin draws from art historical sources to create idiosyncratic scenes that are at once stripped down and rambling.
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Kyle Staver
Whether the theme is love, war, or death, myths have provided artists a rich source of visual and conceptual material for millennia.
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Summer Wheat
Using extruders, piping bags, and palette knives, Summer Wheat pushes acrylic paint through framed pieces of aluminum mesh, producing stippled images on the other side that appear to be tapestries.
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Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas's painting Drop (2018) is a close-up portrayal of a woman. Her skin has a faint blue tinge, and concentric rings surround her head, suggesting an aura or halo.
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Ewelina Bochenska
Bochenska's work feels both of this world and outside it, bidding us to live an existence that more purposefully bridges the two.
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Qiu Anxiong
Through his "naive" eyes, Qiu allows us to glimpse a more organic version of technology, and perhaps to begin to discover a path out of technology's totalizing reach.
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Alberto Savinio
For Savinio, myth was not simply a set of discrete tales, but rather "an iridescent vapor" that could transform—like Ovid's poetry—even the most familiar entities.
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