Posts by Austen Gray

Once deciding art was his calling, Toscani embraced abstract ideas about portraiture and how he could make this discipline entirely his own.

He rearranges casts and colors either virtually or in reality to create masterpieces exploring contemporary themes of the body and technology.

And, yes, it’s just as cool as it sounds. Miles Jaffe creates enormous tubes of paint and they’re “dripping” everywhere.

They’re self-portraits, where Samson hopes to share his own journey and have others resonate with that, but the empty gray eyes imply an anonymous impenetrability.

His simplistic use of line and color depicts figures in everyday settings. This, he says, represents a direct way to view his world.

Kate Gottgens paints scenes that have an ephemeral nature, almost as if they could change at any moment and the scene beyond would continue to play out in its own world. 

Exploring the larger topic of environmentalism, her surrealist scenes give way to an alternate reality.