Art Hound

Paintings by Enrique Martínez Celaya who I discovered on BOOOOOOOM. I think it’s fascinating that Celaya studied physics and electrical engineering, even earning a PhD at Berkeley, before going on to become a painter.

“Enrique Martínez Celaya has long treated landscape as a site of soulful reckoning… (In his new paintings) fields of poppies, glistening snow and clusters of birch trees chronicle shifting subjective conditions: yearning, loss, solitude and, more rarely, a longing for communion.

Several (of these paintings) feature a young, androgynous figure, a lone journeyer emblematic of the artist’s own itinerant path from his native Cuba to Spain, Puerto Rico and ultimately the U.S.”  - Leah Ollman Art In America

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Aris Moore is in a group show at Jack Hanley opening tomorrow. Moore, who is getting her MFA at the Art Institute of Boston, documents much of her work on her blog, also providing wonderful bits of commentary like, “Sometimes, in a moment of happiness, even her nose smiled.” Aris’ paintings are a reminder of how acutely attuned we are to the human face. Her deconstructed and reconstructed faces are sometimes familiar, other times alien, sometimes normal and other times freakish.

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A History of Graphic Design For Rainy Days and Hyperactivitypography by Studio 3 via Pikaland. Studio 3 is an in-school design agency consisting of 15 3rd year graphic design students at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo. I am enamored with the concept of giving kids (and curious grown-ups) opportunities to interact with graphic design and typography. These books look so fun, don’t they?

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Cima Rahmankhah was born in Iran and lives in Los Angeles. The fabrics in these works are clearly a labor of love. What luxury and richness against a backdrop of plain linen. It’s breathtaking.

In my work I deal with social stigmata rooted in memory, compare the ways in which power structures differ from culture to culture, and also explore the aesthetics of power.

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I first saw Andy Curlowe’s work in New American Paintings Issue #89 (Mid-West) and checking up on him now, I’d say he’s still doing some pretty great work.

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