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I am painting the body as vehicle, simple forms with wheels or wings. These forms often appear inflated as with inhaled breath. The background encases these forms in a floating ungrounded space. These car, train, rocketand plane-like forms imply movement yet their energy is still, reflective and contemplative. These forms are single, twinned or shadowed, [...]
Yashar Gallery presents NEW WORK, a solo exhibition of new work by TROY MATTISON HICKS. Please join us on Thursday April 5th 6-10pm for the exhibition opening and to meet the artist.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. April 5th-25th 2012.
Opening party Thursday April 5th 6-10pm
In the exhibition, Hicks presents a series of highly stylized close-ups of the [...]
Joseph Meloy (b. 1982, New York City) has coined the term Vandal Expressionism, to tag his personal post-graffiti spin on the abstract expressionism of the 40′s and 50′s. Incorporating some of the more primal elements of graffiti, Vandal Expressionism utilizes the same iconography of damage and intrusion as street art, but turns the calligraphic scribbles [...]
Artist Statement
These works are composed with handmade pigments-a ferromagnetic material which is colored and then cast on linen backed by a magnetic field. Each piece has a unique color play. The paintings have actual magnetic lines that run through the pigments before they are fixed. The resulting image is like a fossil of [...]
Artist Statement
I paint the things around us: fruits and vegetables, household items, toys, all the objects of everyday life. I also have a series on candies and their wrappers, focusing on their translucency and reflections. In all these paintings, my emphasis is on light, color, texture and atmosphere.
All paintings are available, except those [...]
Artist Statement
My small-scale paper assemblages feel like dense clusters of brightly colored forms that threaten to simultaneously explode and collapse, hugging the line between being tightly composed and loosely improvised. There is a sweetness about the work in the twee color palette and [...]
Green Form (detail)
Red Plastic Form
GardenScape
Yellow Growth from Grid
AirConGreenCircle
Artist Statement
Generally my work is about integrating disparate elements, creating unlikely relationships and new meaning to appropriated objects and industrial materials.
Plastic Construction Series:
This series is comprised of blending pre-existing [...]
