Artist Crews-Chubb's new works take an increasingly abstract direction, exploring the timeless and universal through figures that blend ancient references with modern art historical influences. His paintings on paper retain the complex qualities of his canvas works, featuring a range of materials including acrylics, oil pastels, charcoal, sand, and inks applied in a process he likens to sculpture. The figures are intentionally devoid of defining features, inviting viewers to consider the body as an archetype rather than a container for subjectivity. Crews-Chubb's palettes combine organic and natural elements with artificial and industrial colors, reflecting his interest in pareidolia, the human tendency to perceive order in random stimuli. His works exist in a state of tension between order and its absence, where figures are discernible yet on the cusp of dissolving into their compositions.
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/daniel-crews-chubb-new-works-on-paper-open-in-los-angeles/Artist duo Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel, born in Tehran and Vienna in 1975, create artworks that blend illusionary space with pop-cultural elements, resulting in transhumanist portraits of hybrid creatures. Their work critiques traditional art-historic visual and narrative hierarchies by combining the intimacy of post-impressionism's Intimism movement with the digital sensibilities of Post-Internet Art.
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/asgar-gabriel-ignore-the-mess-but-don-t-take-off-your-shoes-ernst-hilger-gallery-vienna/Jo Baer, an artist, shifted her style from abstraction to "radical figuration" in the 1980s, incorporating prehistoric cave motifs, feminine symbols, geography and astronomical forms into her work. She explained that she wanted more subject matter and meaning in her art due to the turmoil of the world at the time. Baer's work has been exhibited internationally and is currently featured in the Museum of Modern Art's group exhibition "Vital Signs: Artists and the Body". Her paintings are held in the collections of institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
https://hyperallergic.com/985060/jo-baer-painter-of-radical-figuration-dies-at-95/Bess, an American artist, drew inspiration from his studies on various figures whose voices guided him in creating artworks that explored themes of unity and immortality. He believed his body was a vessel for revealing his path to achieving unity, which he conveyed through modest-sized paintings that were direct copies of the visions he saw on the insides of his eyelids. Bess's work predated contemporary conversations about identity, particularly gender, sexuality, and identity, by examining these themes in relation to different cultures.
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