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Nikki Maloof is a painter based in South Hadley, MA and is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery in the Lower East side. She holds an MFA from Yale and a BFA from Indiana University, IN. Her recent solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, titled ‘Caught and Free’, featured 8 large scale paintings and a near dozen drawings that positioned animals as subjects. However, like many things, the surface is not reflective of it all for the artist who’s proclivity to painting animals spans several years. In a way Nikki Maloof lured us in with exciting patterns on rugs, brilliantly painted chairs and sweet longing cat eyes but the show gives us much more. The scale alone wasn’t the only factor but that was ultimately impressive to the senses. These paintings were about what painting can do but also about what animals can’t do. Animals, in our constant control and always…
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In the world of social media and the internet, one can see hundreds if not thousands of works of art online. We sift through hundreds of years’ worth of art through clicks and swipes, but in the end, are we really seeing and understanding how and what they are communicating? When we look at a work of art in person, the beauty of it is, it is a physical object that is a handmade object that an individual have made. We see the physicality of the materials, and we also know the mind of the author at work in the visual decisions they have made to create a unique object. There is an intimate space between the artist and the viewer when looking at a work of art in person. The moment of engagement is one element that makes looking at a work of art in person so great. In…
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At the beginning of May, for those of us who teach, we being the final weeks of the academic semester. We bid farewell to the BFA and MFA candidates who are about to embark on one of the toughest and most gratifying assignment: life as artists. Elsewhere in the art world commercial galleries and professional artists gear up for one of the most vibrant art fairs on New York’s Randall Island: Frieze and depending on the year, the Venice Biennale. And in other places in the world of art, there are other events taking place, such as the One River School 2019 Emerging Art Award which was received by Cameron Welch on Tuesday, April 30th in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Matt Ross, the Founder, and CEO of the transformative One River School presented the cash award to Welch to an audience of supporters of the program and the…
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Artist: Amanda Nedham Title: Bullseye target: I’ll draw you a fly 1 of 25 Medium: Graphite Dimension: 8×10 Year: 2019 Exhibition: Field Projects Drawing has been a topic I have been practicing, lecturing and writing about for years. I am currently teaching a course designed to traverse both Art Theory and Art History of Drawing in the Visual Critical Studies department at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Some example texts we dive through are Drawing Now – 8 Propositions and the monumental text The Primacy of Drawing by Deanna Petherbridge. Along with this, drawing is a huge part of my practice as a visual artist and integral to my role as a writer and a critic. I can’t help but think drawing is connected to everything. After seeing several shows this year that deal with this ever changing medium, I’ve selected my three favorite and feel they all…
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