Joshua Bienko: I’m interested in how you construct a painting. I just saw “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible" at The Met Breuer. It was incredible. There’s a Rubens painting where the horses and people in the background are rendered in high detail, like 30 or 40 of them. Right down to the kind of thread they’re wearing, but in the foreground, the horse’s head that carries Henry IV, is still sketched out in two or three different positions. It’s trans...
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My work is about the places where the concerns of modernist painting meet my own experiences and the physical reality of the body. Often the subject matter is a visual bridge between painting tropes and the objects of everyday life. The lines of a lawn chair seat serves as a veiled reference to the grid, and its breakdown – presumably by human weight – to an imagined encounter with the human body. Eleanor Aldrich - studio visit July 2016 My work is textural and...
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TOPS is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2012 by Matt Ducklo located at 400 S. Front St. in Memphis, TN. An Attitude You Can Wear by Haynes Riley will be on view through Saturday, August 27. "Using both found and constructed forms Riley's individual art works create an environment that is both a response to the space and a product of its own internal logic. From the street, outside the gallery, the viewer can look down to the...
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