Gemma Smith

MMMMMMMmmmmm.

I just discovered Australian artist Gemma Smith. These colors. Those light reflections. The connections between the paintings and the objects. Mmmmm.

Heres some linkage:

http://www.sarahcottiergallery.com/artist/20/Gemma_Smith/21/Gemma_Smith_08.htm#e21

http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2013/10/02/im-jealous-of-gemma-smith/

Olivia Jeffries

Lovely little drawings on found paper. Sensitive to design and patterning. I'm especially infatuated with those burn holes - so delicate and intense.

I thought this may speak to ideas of memory, ritual, and geometry -- Laura and Molly!?

Her website: http://www.oliviajeffries.co.uk/index.html

and her post on jealous curator: http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2013/10/04/im-still-jealous-of-olivia-jeffries/

                       

I just discovered this New Zealand based artist named Gaby O'Connor. This is what she has in the about section on her website: 

My name is Gabby O’Connor

I am an artist and I like to make things.

I also like icebergs.

:) perfect. she uses paper and light to create installations as well as paintings with a variety of mediums (oil, watercolor,colored pencil, etc.) 

I'm intrigued by the interaction of geometric, planar forms with light, and the medium of paper. The "icebergs" in her series, "What lies beneath" definitely have implications of crystal structure, and they way that they are monumentalized is fantastic! 

"I'm perfectly happy to be alive now." - Willem de Kooning in an interview with David Sylvester

Robert Baribeau

I found Robert Baribeau in an Art News gallery ad. These two works, the first in charcoal and pastel on paper, the second, oil stick and acrylic on paper, demonstrate enviable sensitivity of mark and painterly effort, the essence of idea clearly reflected. Note the hints of Johns and Rauschenberg in the painting, and the quiet, subtle yet definite layers of thought, the notes of color requiring attention.

Daniel Spoerri: Tableaux pieges

"Spoerri created the first "tableau-piège" in 1960, The Resting Place of the Delbeck Family, by gluing a number of dinner-table objects on a board and then hanging it on a wall.

More often than not, the surface of the picture-traps is a tabletop and the objects glued are the remnants of a meal: dishes, utensils, food remains, etc. Sometimes one even finds both table and chair attached to the wall.

The selection of the moment of when to adhere the objects tends to be arbitrary, where Spoerri will, over the course of a meal with friends, for example, simply decide to stop and take the table away."

for more: <http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/2-articles/259-on-the-various-trappings-of-daniel-spoerri>

Marcia Stuermer

I use translucent resin as a primary medium in my work to 'sample' moments in time and create visceral and oftentimes anthropological investigations of human experience including emotion, thought and memory in a type of conceptual freeze-framing. I manipulate the veiled translucency of the resin and oftentimes incorporate cellular drawings to foster surprise, mystery, and wonder and pique the viewers' discovery of new realities, bringing that which is often overlooked or under the surface to the forefront.