Structure and Imagery

CIMA 7, 1984, distemper on canvas, 195 x 195 cm. MONA  24,1986, distemper on canvas, 152 x 172 cm. CIEN 15, 1987, distemper on canvas, 162 x 130 cm. From the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) 2010 accompanying an exhibition of the artist's work from that year: Spanish painter Ferran Garcia Sevilla is a collector of images. His eclectic pictorial style draws on his travels in the Middle East, and on comic books, urban graffiti, philosophy and Eastern cultures, resulting in great sensuous open spaces in which everything blends together, both in terms of iconography and ideas. His raw, colourful, primitive canvases are often peppered with caustic, hand-scrawled commentaries on life and politics. These paintings display the use of automatism, playfulness and flat symbols, and figures floating over solid ground. Turning to ancient and non-Western sources, he has long employed religious symbols – the hand, circle, tree, triangle and cross. His aim is to empower and...

Still from the digital short, Watermelon, by Dwayne Butcher image © the artist Dwayne Butcher : The Politics of Inclusion On view through March 31 David Lusk Gallery 4540 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38111 Read a review of the exhibition by Fredric Koeppel for The Commercial Appeal here .

Laurel Sucsy, Sweet Jane , 2012, oil on linen, 59 x 55 in. image © the artist. Check out the new monthly art magazine / blog, Visual Memphis , by Dwayne Butcher . Butcher's last blog, Artbutcher, was a staple in the Memphis art community and his new endeavor promises to fill the void left by the former blog's closing last February. From Visual Memphis' welcoming statement: Visual Memphis is dedicated to the visual arts and artists of Memphis. The quality and number of artists that are currently in and from Memphis is astounding. Really. This website will post monthly contributions by and for this community. Each month we will post images from studio visits with a practicing artist, an interview with a current student, illustrations from recent graduates, stream-of-consciousness writing from  a variety of artists, an examination of architecture and a number of reviews and essays. In between "issues" there will be posts on specific topics from spe...

Artist and art writer Sharon Butler Artist and art writer, Sharon Butler will participate in the Nashville Cultural Arts Project spting 2012 Insight? Outta Sight! lecture programs. The series, held @ Zeitgeist Fine Art , is designed to ignite creativity and discussion about contemporary art and social engagement. Sharon Butler is an artist and art writer who maintains the award winning art blog Two Coats of Paint and is a contributing writer for the Brooklyn Rail. Butler has upcoming shows at Pocket Utopia in NYC, Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT and Seasons in Seattle, WA. She is a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University and divides her time between New York City and Washington DC. Sharon Butler Wednesday, March 28 Discussion: 6:30 - 7:30 pm Pot Luck: 6:00 - 6:30 pm please bring a dish/drink/question. Zeitgeist Fine Art 1819 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37212

Ryan Cobourn Bill Jensen Bill Jensen Arthur Dove Arthur Dove Andrea Belag Ellen Phelan Ellen Phelan Installation view Installation view Dark Matters Andrea Belag, Ryan Cobourn, Arthur Dove, Bill Jensen, Ellen Phelan February 23 - March 18, 2012 Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects 208 Forsyth Street New York, NY 10002

Kazimira Rachfal : The Shiva Cycle March 23 - April 22, 2012 Reception: Friday March 23, 7 - 9 PM Janet Kurnatowski Gallery 205 Norman Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11222

Here you will find a photo essay of my recent visit to the Lambertville, New Jersey studio of Ravenna Taylor . Ravenna also maintains her own blog, Lagoon, that you can visit here . Ravenna Taylor in her studio. Lambertville, NJ 2012. From the artist's statement:   Visual sensation stirs my attention to perception and thought; as emotion and thought impact senses and perceptions, my curiosity engages. My imagery derives from such observations, the dovetails and overlaps of lived experience. My paintings chronicle my choices; to choose is to begin, to be alive, to be human. Several of these pieces began as other works I’d thought were finished, but which I turned back into beginnings. I’m calling this assembly of work “re: Vision,” to disclose the revisiting, and refer to my preoccupations with our powers of perception and thought. I compose my pictorial abstractions to excite associations. While nature’s phenomena inf...