Monthly Archives: March 2017

31Mar

James Griffith’s Tar Paintings, Biophilia @ Craig Krull Gallery

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Mountain Lion 16x12, oiland tar on panel, 2016

HuffPost, March 31, 2017. A review of James Griffith’s tar paintings. Instead of depicting nature, Griffith works with nature itself, extracting images of the milky way, flora and fauna out of tar so that his paintings exude life. Rather than making paintings of nature Griffith’s artwork behaves like nature – recalling Jackson Pollock’s famous comment ” I...

17Mar

Andy Moses’ Kinesthetic Paintings: A 30-Year Survey @ S.M.C’s Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery

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HuffPost, March 17, 2007. For Andy Moses , nature is the greatest artist. He says, ” I always wanted to make paintings that didn’t emphasize the painter – to get to a natural phenomenon that is so organic that the paintings feel like they created themselves.” Moses explores different optical perspectives of nature drawn from...