Oil Painting
March 11, 2022

Giant Brushstrokes Sweeps Across Canvases Revealing Exquisite Landscapes

The art of Munich-based painter David Ambarzumjan contains two pictures on one canvas. His ongoing series called Brushstrokes in Time juxtaposes present-day scenes of life on Earth with a view of the planet from a vastly different time period. Now, the artist adds to this creative experiment in the Miniature Collection, which places exquisite landscapes in an outer space setting. Ambarzumjan utilizes the power of a single broad brushstroke to convey the surreal image.

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Watercolor Painting
March 10, 2022

Delicate Grayscale Watercolor Paintings Look Like Grainy Vintage Photographs

Artist Elicia Edijanto creates watercolor art with a nostalgic quality. Her compositions of solitary children, animals, and misty landscapes look like grainy black and white photographs or stills from a long-lost film. In actuality, they are painted with a grayscale palette. Each of these wistful pieces blurs reality with dreams. Edijanto's delicate brushstrokes capture the forms of people, creatures, and even statues but do not focus on the details of their faces or expressions.

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Oil Painting
March 10, 2022

Wavy Motifs Pulsate Through Hypnotic Paintings of Fashionable Figures

Energy flows across the canvases of artist Foster Sakyiamah. He submerges figures into surreal spaces dominated by repeating wavy patterns in a limited color palette. Like lines in the sand, these mesmerizing designs guide the viewer's eye all across the canvas. Based in Ghana, Sakyiamah is currently working as a Noldor artist-in-residence in Accra, a program that helps support emerging African artists. It's there that he's been able to further his creative practice.

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Installation
March 9, 2022

Artists Fly 350 Paper Planes in NYC’s Guggenheim in Support of a Ukraine No-Fly Zone

Performance art has often been used as a way to comment on social issues. And with a war raging in Ukraine, a group of New York artists made their voices heard at one of the city's foremost museums. On Saturday, March 5, they entered the Guggenheim during peak visiting hours and released 350 paper planes from the top of the museum's rotunda.

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