Tag: collage

John Andro Avendano

Two Paintings by John Andro Avendano

Top Image: “Blue Maze”, Ink, Acrylic, Chalk and Newspaper on Paper, 2007; Bottom Image: “Sex 1″, Oil on Canvas, 2012

John Andro Avendano was born into an artistic family in Arleta, California in 1959. His mother painted and his brothers drew; so from an early age, he has been a focused artist. He did not settle on just one artistic medium but developed many forms of expressing art.

In the late 1970’s, John Avendano gave up ownership in his construction company to become a full-time artist. These were lean times and he would often give away art for food. For several years he worked under Hal Reed who learned his techniques by studying under Nicolai Fechen and by working at Walt Disney Studios in Las Angeles. Avendano was Hal Reed’s assistant for five years at the Art League of Las Angeles while perfecting his skill of color theory, composition, and anatomy. Avendano later taught art at the Art League and at several elementary schools in the Los Angeles area.

Richard Huntington

Richard Huntington, “Joe E Brown Calls the Lightning Down”, Collage, Archival Pigment Print and Oil on Paper Mounted on Board, 2010

Richard Huntington is a painter, printmaker, writer and art critic. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University and his Master of Art and Humanities at the State University of New York located in Buffalo. Using his technical knowledge, Huntington works in a wide range of fields, including paintings, drawings, collages, print making, and computer generated graphics. 

From 1982 to 1985, Huntington was the Visual Arts Director at Artpark, a public sculpture park in Lexington, New York. Under his directorship, the late video and installation artist Vito Acconci executed his first major public sculpture and the late Chris Burden created his “Bean Drop”, a performance piece in which seventy-one iron beams were dropped, over the course of a day, into a pool of fresh concrete. This kinetic form of abstract expressionism was recreated at Inhotim, Brazil, in 2008, after surviving only as documentation for twenty years.

Richard Huntington has had many residencies over his career, including Visiting Critic at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center for the Arts. He was also a contributing reviewer for publications, including ARTNews, Art New England, and High Performance  Magazine. Huntington served as art critic for The Buffalo News from 2095 to 2007, where he wrote critical articles and reviews on regional and international exhibitions.

Huntington won the 2007Associated Press Award for Criticism for his review which challenged O’Keefe’s status in American art. He is the author of two novels: “An Art Critic Walks into a Bar” and a sequel with the same character, “7 Dead or Otherwise Forgotten Artists”. Huntington also authored a number of essays for art catalogues including “Storyboard: The Sexual Politics of Jackie Felix”, for the 2012 retrospective at Burchfield Penney Art Center; and “Duayne Hatchet: Form, Pattern, and Invention” for a 2009 retrospective at Burchfield Penney.

Bottom Insert Image: Richard Hunting, “Squares of Mine”, 1965, Acrylic on Canvas, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York

Leslie Pierce

Leslie Pierce, “Sebastian in Stained-Glass Window,, Collage, 2011

Leslie Pierce is a contemporary artist, known for art that focuses on scenes with underlying themes involving coding systems, documentation, fragmentation and technology. She has worked with collages, situating traditional images of Saint Sebastian in absurd contexts, such as a communist street demonstration in Paris, or displaying male nudes against religious backdrops.

“Sebastian in Stained Glass Window” was shown at the “Saint Sebastian: From Martyr to Gay Starlet” exhibition held at Friday Cottage Art Space, a gallery in one of the historic downtown homes in Columbia, South Carolina. . The exhibition was part of a week of events that led up to the South Carolina Pride Festival in early September of 2012.

Pierce has relocated from Austin, Texas, to San Diego, California, and now runs a Studio Gallery in Arts District Liberty Station- an old converted Naval base that is bustling with creative businesses, non profits and eateries. She exhibits and sells her work internationally and teaches Painting and Drawing.

Robert Rauschenberg

 

Robert Rauschenberg, “Wall Eyed Carp / ROCI JAPAN”, Acrylic and Fabric Collage on Canvas, 1987, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

“Wall-Eyed Carp” is a fine example of what the artist called a “Combine,” a painting that incorporates everyday objects, in this instance the addition ofa visually striking kite. The painting is more than 20 feet long and is signed below the fish’s tail.

Rauschenberg challenged preconceptions about the boundaries between art and life and profoundly altered the course of art after midcentury.

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters, “Santa Klaus”, Cut and Pasted Colored and Printed Papers on Paper with Cardstock Border, 1922, 28 x 28 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Kurt Hermann Schwitters, born in January of 1948, was a German artist. He worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called “Merz Pictures”.

 

Emil Holmer

Paintings by Emil Holmer from His Show: Mobilization Table

‘Dead Letters’ is the Swedish painter Emil Holmer’s first solo show in Berlin. His Mobilization Table is a sort of mission statement for his approach to painting: the canvas is a frame into which objects are assembled over and against each other, and techniques are hand-made weapons for dissecting materials. Collages of pornographic material meet total abstraction; media swap roles. The paintings are composed like installations from smaller paintings of sculptures, clusters spaced across the canvas, or piled on top of each other.

Ruth Wall

Ruth Wall, Untitled, Date Unknown, Collage on Paper, 14 x 13 Inches, Private Collection

Ruth Wall, an abstract expressionist painter and lithographer, was born in Wyoming in 1917. After moving to a homestead on an Indian reservation in Utah, Ruth quickly completed school by 16 and left home for California to start her university studies. After working with the Women’s Air Force, Wall enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts where she studied painting. She studied with other prominent Bay Area abstract expressionists such as David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Hassel Smith until her graduation in 1952. She continued her painting career until her passing in Paris, France.