September 14, 2018, 10:35am

NAP Artist on View: Erik Mark Sandberg

New American Paintings alum Erik Mark Sandberg (cover artist Pacific Coast #91) on view at Stephanie Chefas Projects.  

INTERLUDE
September 7 - September 28, 2018

For more information please visit:

STEPHANIE CHEFAS PROJECTS
305 SE 3rd Ave #202
Portland, OR
503 719 6945

Erik Mark Sandberg
Youth in White Tee Shirt
oil, acrylic and epoxy resin on panel
20 x 16 inches

photo courtsey of Stephanie Chefas Projects

 

"This September, Stephanie Chefas Projects is delighted to present 'Interlude', a solo exhibition of new work from L.A. based artist Erik Mark Sandberg. Drawing from contemporary consumer culture and the relentless bombardment of mass marketing, Sandberg's paintings and sculptures create an uncanny portrait gallery of hairy adolescents. In addition to serving as a metaphor for the perversion and exploitation inherent in the consumer experience, the hirsutism of Sandberg's subjects furthermore signifies the double-edged promise of overnight fame epitomized by Los Angeles.

August 22, 2018, 5:29pm

NAP Artist on View: Maja Ruznic and Justin Richel

New American Paintings alum Maja Ruznic (cover artist Pacific Coast #97 and Pacific Coast #109) and Justin Richel (Northeast #98 and West #138) on view with Emi Ozawa at the Roswell Museum and Art Center.  

Parallax (A RAiR Connection Exhibition)
July 7 - September 2, 2018

For more information please visit:

Roswell Museum and Art Center
Marshall and Winston Gallery
1011 N Richardson Ave.
Roswell, NM 88201
575 624 6744

Justin Richel
Tall Order (Bologna and Cheese)
2016-17
acrylic, silicone, urethane plastic
108 x 4 x 4 inches

photo courtesy of Roswell Museum and Art Center

August 10, 2018, 4:36pm

A Conversation: Eric Fischl

New American Paintings Contributer, Arthur Peña, speaks with Eric Fischl on the occaision of his survey exhibition, If Art Could Talk, at the Dallas Contemporary. 

 

Rift/Raft, 2016, oil on linen, 98 x 220 inches

 

 

Arthur Peña:    There are so many moves and nuances playing out on the surface of the paintings. The work has a constant restlessness in the how the paint is being pushed around. 

 

Eric Fischl:       I don't know if you have that as well. I'm assuming you do, I think all painters do, which is that I’m always wondering what's enough. What does it take to make it feel alive, make it feel real? How much detail do I need? Do I stick to some strict formula? Do I deviate? Do I whatever? I thought the older I got, the better at the craft I got, the more that question would go away, but it gets worse. 

 

July 31, 2018, 11:51am

NAP Artist on View: Alex Becerra, Brian Calvin, Shara Hughes

New American Paintings alumni, Alex Becerra (Pacific Coast #127 cover artist) Brian Calvin (Midwest #11), and Shara Hughes (South #58) were all featured in Cliche, organized with Bill Powers at Almine Rech Gallery. 

 

Cliche 

June 20 - July 28, 2018

 

For more information please visit:
 

Almine Rech Gallery 
39 East 78th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10075
212 804 8496

Cliches are always already on the canvas, and if the painter is content to transform the cliche, to deform or mutilate it, to manipulate it in every possible way, this reaction is still too intellectual, too abstract: it allows the cliche to rise again from its ashes, it leaves the painter within the milieu of the cliche, or else gives him or her no other consolation than parody. 

- Gilles Deleuze 

 

The more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems. 

- Norbert Weiner 

 

Brian Calvin
Puff

2018

acrylic on canvas

56 1/8 x 70 1/8 inches

 

photo courtesy of Almine Rech Gallery