bill bloomfield JOURNAL: 2015

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Ellsworth Kelly, you will be deeply missed.

May 31, 1923 - December 27, 2015

Ellsworth Kelly at the Dallas Museum of Art, 2004.

Photo: Dallas Museum of Art.

From the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/arts/design/ellsworth-kelly-artist-who-mixed-european-abstraction-into-everyday-life-dies-at-92.html?_r=0

From the Dallas Morning News:
http://artsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/12/prominent-artist-ellsworth-kelly-whose-work-carried-strong-ties-to-dallas-dies-at-92.html/

Saturday, December 12, 2015

William T. Wiley at the Hosfelt Gallery

Wiley had his first solo exhibition in 1960. His current show at the HOSFELT GALLERY in San Francisco is a beautiful pairing of large scale abstract paintings, produced from 2010 to 2015, together with watercolors that reveal many of Wiley's on going conversations between his alter-ego characters.

Wiley's references and conversations with I Ching, the goat and the raven, drones, Moby Dick, and pharmaceuticals are revealed through text, doodles, color, and perspectival sketches. This allows for many layers of discovery in each of Wiley's works.

William T. Wiley's official website:
http://www.williamtwiley.com/

No titles for the paintings below.

Most canvases are in the 60" x 80" range.

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Le Tricolore, November 13, 2015

Thinking of those in Paris and Beirut.

Le Tricolore - November 13, 2015

12" x 12" dyptych.

Acrylic and gesso on canvas, 2015.

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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Scribble Book - works in progress

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Friday, November 6, 2015

Svenja Deininger at Marianne Boesky in Chelsea

I was just in New York and saw some incredibly inspiring paintings by Svenja Deininger.

Svenja's paintings are absolutely amazing.

Composition, shape, surface.

Nothing more.

What else does one really need ?

Svenja Deininger: Untitled / Head
http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/exhibitions/svenja-deininger-untitled-head/works

Svenja's use of color and shape remind me of Ozenfant.
Svenja creates a wonderful tension between shape and surface in these paintings.

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2015

Oil on canvas.

90.5" x 59"

Photo: Marianne Boesky Gallery

Edge detail of Untitled, 2015

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2015

Oil on canvas.

90.5" x 59"

Detail of Untitled, 2015

There's a range of surface distinctions from matte to gloss, smooth to rough.

Some of the edges of the paintings reveal multiple built-up layers that provide a peek into the making of the object.

Photo: Marianne Boesky Gallery

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2015

Oil on canvas.

90.5" x 59"

Photo: Marianne Boesky Gallery

Detail of Untitled, 2015.

Edge detail of Untitled, 2015.

Photo: Marianne Boesky Gallery

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2015

Oil on canvas.

90.5" x 59"

I think Svenja juxtaposes the surface in some ways similar to Suzan Frecon.

Photo: Marianne Boesky Gallery

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2015

Oil on canvas.

80.25" x 52"

Photo: Marianne Boesky Gallery

This is one killer little painting !

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2015

Oil on canvas.

11" x 8.25"

Photo: Marianne Boesky Gallery

Monday, October 19, 2015

Brandon Shimmel at George Lawson Gallery

Brandon Shimmel - five paintings

George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco

10.15.15 - 11.14.15

See the exhibition at George Lawson Galley here: http://www.georgelawsongallery.com/exhibitions.html

Go to the artist's website here:

http://www.brandonshimmel.com

Brandon Shimmel, SKU, 2015

Acrylic, acrylic sheet, aluminum on wood panel.

30"H x 25.25"W

Monday, September 28, 2015

Scribble Book - works in progress

Echeveria color study.

Echeveria color inspiration.

Echeveria Color Study I

6" x 6" x3/4"

Acrylic on wood panel.

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Monday, July 27, 2015

Ed Moses

Latest happenings with Ed Moses.
"I don't want to be a goddamned artist. It's such a wimpy thing to want to be."
- Ed Moses.

At the age of 89, Ed has currently a drawing retrospective at the LA County Museum of Art and a solo show at the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica.

Video with Ed Moses and Leslie Jones, curator of prints and drawings at the LACMA,
Tuesday, June 9th, at the William Turner Gallery.
http://williamturnergallery.com/VIDEOS/Ed_Moses_Talk_2015/Ed_Moses_2015.htm

'My Afternoon with Ed', interview by Stephen Goldberg.
http://artillerymag.com/art-brief-ed-moses/

'Ed Moses says he doesn't make "art" - he makes "magic", interview by Darby Maloney and John Horn: http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2015/05/29/42820/ed-moses-says-he-doesn-t-make-art-he-makes-magic/

Great photos of Ed Moses in his studio by Jim Newberry:
http://www.jimnewberry.com/artist-ed-moses-for-kpcc/