Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

JERED SPRECHER: FRAKTUR













Jered Sprecher is currently showing at the Times Club at Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City. Here's two of his newest works from his show there, Fraktur. Also, watch for his solo show this spring at Jeff Bailey Gallery in NYC.








Wednesday, February 15, 2012

MARK GROTJAHN

Untitled (Blue Painting Light to Dark VI), 2006, oil on linen, 86 x 47 inches





Untitled (Blue Face Grotjahn), 2005, oil on linen, 61 x 49 inches




Untitled (Vertical Almond Face 41.04), 2010, oil on cardboard mounted on linen,
108 1/8 x 73 1/4 inches



Grotjahn’s Game
by Michael Rutherford


"Sometimes a game is played so well that it’s taken to an artistic level and sometimes art is gamed so well that it’s taken to another place altogether. Mark Grotjahn is one of the art world’s best gamers. Known for his paintings that combine a heavy dose of materiality with visual resonance, his whole body of work actually stretches along a continuum from highly formal, to a very funky brand of informality. This continuum, this space he’s made for himself, is actually an extension of a conceptual game—a game of an artistic sort"...

For the full article, see our companion site:  THE down Play

                                                                                                  and...  Postmodern Toaster



A major survey of the work of Mark Grotjahn begins at the Aspen Museum on February 17th, through April 29th:  aspenartmuseum.org