Dust and Shade: Drawings by Charles Ritchie
Tags/ Posted by Portia IversenI went through there once on the train. It was shimmering palace and palm and bright and jutting and I wanted to stop; why didn't I? Why don't we stop?continue reading this poem
There is something melancholy about these hidden worlds that Ritchie has recorded with such determination and care, they are the departed and departing moments of our lives that we will never experience…..
Amanda Clyne’s Expressions of Fashion
Tags/ Posted by Lara CoryWhat season is it, Cy, when all the birds get dragged backcontinue reading this poem
“When the viewer first glances at one of my paintings, the image and viewer lock eyes. The image stares back with a shifting, slivered gaze, appealing to the viewer to seek resolution of its ever-elusive form. Confronted with irreconcilable fragments or impenetrable blind spots, the viewer struggles to answer the image’s plea. Savouring the seductive exchange, the viewer and image become entwined in an active portrait of the experience of looking.” ~ A. Clyne
Virg’s World – The Art of Micro-Interventions
Tags/ Posted by Stephen PainWhere do we take cover once the dying’s done?continue reading this poem
A curator at Galerie für Landschaftskunst said that Virg’s art was “bewitching”. Yes, it is, in the manner of Harry Potter or the magic realist texts. These inanimate objects are charmed into something amusing that stop you in the tracks.
Sascha Braunig at Foxy Production
Tags/ Posted by Meredith RosenbergIf souls must be here they do not watch us even accidentally for a moment—not being subject to the laws of chance. With the kindly detachment of settlement house angels they overlook our lives.continue reading this poem
Sascha Braunig, a young Canadian artist, known for her reimagining of the studio portrait, was recently featured in her first solo exhibit at Foxy Productions in Manhattan.
