Mago

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2002

There is a strong, playful streak in Mago's mixed-media paintings. In "Dancers", we see an interesting relationship between abstraction and representation. Red and yellow fills the canvas forming a kinetic composition, while the floating figures of dancers appear almost dreamlike coming out of the sun...

Aerial meditation.

Consuelo Vallina liberates colors from the drawing gag. She dominates vertical and horizontal displacement which coexist with discordant rhythms in our spontaneous and existential life. - Matias Diaz Padron, Chief Conservator of the Prado Museum...

Bold semiotic abstraction. LA Weekly art critic Peter Frank identifies Nomentana as a "neo-modernist." "Her ideals reside in the artwork itself . . . and regard abstract form as a s...

Julia Nee Chu was born in 1938 in Shanghai, China and currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California. Her paintings call upon nature, movement and calligraphy. “The focus of ...

Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. With plenty of personal art exhibitions, Tirado has participated in numerous collective exhibitions, receiving different awards such as “III Premio de Escultura” del Certamen Aires de Córdoba in 2004 and other recognitions, among them, at the Venezuelan Embassy in DC (2005), and the X Latin Art Festival of Atlanta (2005). Childhood Tirado grew up in an upper-middle-class family environment. His inclination for the arts started from an early age. At 8 years old, he was already experimenting with tridimensional forms, creating molds out of cast lead from pieces previously gathered on the streets. These first artistic experiences led by his inquisitive nature, provided the ground to continue exploring the possibilities with different materials like wood, waste and plaster. His childhood games were centered around painting and sculpting, which played an important role that ranged from recreational to aesthetics. When Tirado turned 12 years of age, his parents agreed for him to attend private art classes with professor Javier Hernandez in Caracas. Later on, he realized that Art was a profession that required investment in materials, reason that led him to work at a furniture store painting landscapes and figurative art to decorate the exhibit room. He created numerous paintings of Caracas’ famous mountain: El Avila, and other art pieces that not only served as a source of income, but more importantly, led him to deepen his figurative expression. In 1985, he started drawing comic sets for a renowned newspaper El Diario de Caracas, alongside Jorge Blanco...

Ron Stonier (1933-2001) was a dedicated Vancouver artist celebrated for his exploration of abstract painting, influenced by his mentors Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt, as well as by ...

oil and gold leaf on porcelain tile Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of li...