Figgis is a member of this unique, new wave of young underground artists bringing painting back to circulation this year. Quite honestly, we’re almost sure that this group’s art is the antidote to process-led abstraction that took serious hold in 2014. At 42 years old, Figgis is not a complete newbie though, but with her…
Category: New Artists
New Artist of the Day: Dwyer Kilcollin
The signature move for this art kid is actually adjusting the 2D imagery via an algorithm, for which Kilcollin has received a lot of attention for her hand-cast relief sculpture. These pieces fuse the virtual and material worlds in one – just as her sculptures that recently graced a hillside of Los Angeles and M+B…
New Artist of the Day: Dean Levin
While we are all interested and eager for Levin’s much awaited exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery in 2015 (who he signed with last summer) it’s hard to not recall, that stellar year he had in 2014. The South African-born artist, whose initial career choice was being an architect at Pratt, had solo exhibitions at Robert…
New Artist of the Day: Eric Nathaniel Mack
With his most recent works showcased in the Rema Hort Mann Collection, a current residency at the prestigious Studio Museum of Harlem, and his inclusion in “to do as one would,” a 2014 winter group show organized by David Wiirner Gallery in New York, Mack (aka Eric N. Mack) is about to become a trademark…