Structure and Imagery

Painter, Brenda Goodman and poet and art writer John Yau discuss a detail in the work. photo: Denise Sfraga Last Saturday, February 16th Sikkema Jenkins hosted an exhibition walkthrough with Brenda Goodman & John Yau on the occasion of Goodman's solo exhibition: In a Lighter Place.  From the Press Release : Since 2011, Goodman has transformed and synthesized aspects of her earlier work, as well as inspiration from such movements as Surrealism, Expressionism, and Symbolism, and artists as diverse as Hieronymus Bosch, Alfred Kubin and Philip Guston, into something recognizably hers. At the same time, the torment pulsing through Goodman’s work seems to have loosened its grip on the artist. In the event that you were unable to make it out to the talk you can view the exchange in the link provided in the caption of the image posted immediately below . . .  Yau's review of the exhibition, In a Lighter Place on Hyperallergic. * All images accompanying t...

Joan Mellon, To Build a Dream On , oil on wood panel, 8 x 10 in. "Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires . . . . " Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act I, Scene 4). A Group show inspired William Shakespeare Wherefore Art Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7, 6-9 pm. February 25 - May 5, 2019 Village West Gallery 331 Newark Avenue Jersey City, NJ

Painter, James Erikson has put together a limited edition artist's book entitled "Origin of Oranges." The elegant accordion style design contains collages and woodcuts, by Erikson, digitally scanned, reproduced and accompanied by poems by Daniel Hales, Amy Thatcher, Robin Stout and AJay McLaughlin. James Erikson, Origin of Oranges #1 , 2015, Woodcut Who Waits Who Runs by Robin Stout You say I am too happy to be a poet. You, you ubiquitous you. Floating in and out, in and out of my poems like clouds in a blue, blue sky. You say my pain is more frightened lamb than wounded lion. That I am low on ink. And, besides I don't dress right. That's what you know. I am the guy on Atlantic Avenue with apricot hair. I am the swollen river, the fifteen- dollar sandwich. I am the woman in head-to-toe black on a coral street. I am the car stuck in traffic. I am the dog who waits who runs behind you and sinks yello...

Becky Yazdan, Scream , 48x42 inches, oil on linen on panel, 2018 Becky Yazdan in the studio. Unhinged : A Solo Show of Recent Work by Becky Yazdan On view through April, 2019 The One River School 49 N. Dean Street, Englewood, NJ

Recently ARTS 4 All presented Unnati Singh's site specific installation, Between the Threads, at the Hindustan Times PALATE Festival at the  Mahalaxmi Racecourse in Mumbai. Posted here is a photo essay of the installation that gives an idea of the scale and incredible complexity of the work. From the Press Release: Between The Threads: Unnati Singh  constructed this installation with objects that seem lost and discarded. She weaves a web with white cotton thread used in sacred rituals .Two old sewing machine stands create the centre stage for a human body as the core piece , woven and stretched in between. Everyday objects become unfamiliar. The woven threads make the familiar unfamiliar. A deep sense of fragility can be articulated by this feeling of being stretched or pulled by the unknown.   This work  metaphorically speaks of the human condition. It speaks of the ironic plight of a common man who is no less than a puppet .  Unnati...

Split Flow, 2017, oil, flashe, spray paint, oil stick, charcoal, collage on canvas, 90 x 62 in. Sleepy with the Heat, oil, spraypaint and ink on canvas, 48 x 40 in. Saylor in his studio. Photographer unkown. A collection of paintings by Bill Saylor (Born: Philadelphia, PA, 1960). Images of work from the web:  © Magenta Plains and the artist. Holon, 2017, oil, flashe. spray paint, oil stick, graphite and charcoal on canvas, 120 x 96 in. Helio, 2018, oil, flashe, oil stick, spray paint on canvas, 84 x 63 in. Astro Morph, 2016, oil, flashe, spray paint on canvas, 72 x 48 in.