Swiss born, Neuwiller-based (France) artist Christophe Hohler (1961) paints figures. Men, women, fascinatingly dynamic, colourless and colourful.
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Christophe Hohler’s fascinating figures
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Adrian Negenborn’s oscillating process
Adrian Negenborn’s abstract expressionism is characterized by oscillating, from visceral to analytic, spontaneous to meditated, he responds to the initial flurry of marks laid on the canvas.
“I am always trying to make something from nothing, to dig something out of the mass of gestures. I never fully know when a painting is done until it feels right; it reaches an in between state somewhere amidst harmony and disharmony.”
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Lisa Golightly’s childhood memories
Lisa Golightly’s studied photography, the influence of which can be seen in her paintings. Much of her work explores the memory of childhood.
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André Schmucki’s visual manifestations
André Schmucki is a Swiss fine artist. Upon first glance his work seems to mirror the surrealists fascination with the subconscious and collective memories. However, he transcends the initial surrealists strategies by consciously choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation.
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Jaeyeol Han’s abstract portraits
As part of his National Service, South Korean artist Jaeyeol Han was sent to Haiti to assist in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. Amidst the devastation he was struck by the dignity of everyone he encountered, and the huge impact this made on him led to a series of abstract portraits.
Via Saatchi Art
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Ann Gale’s small colour patches
Ann Gale is an American figurative painter based in Seattle. She is known for her portrait paintings, which consist of an accumulation of small colour patches expressing the changing light and the shifting position of her models over time. Some of her main influences include Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti and Antonio López García.
Source: Wikipedia
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Alejandro Marco’s textured paintings
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Zsolt Bodoni’s tumultuous allegories
Zsolt Bodoni is a Romanian painter whose allegorical paintings about icons of power and
war cast a staid eye on the tumultuous history of his country. Drawing on Eastern European myths and the iconography of dark beauty, Bodoni devotes his lushly painted canvases to explorations of the physical lives of symbols, from the nude female form to equine sculptures. Source: Artsyn
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Giorgio Pinotti’s identities
Giorgio Pignotti is an Italian artist. His work explores the concept of identity and aims to silence our beliefs and certainties about identity.
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David Shevlino’s simultaneous approach
At the age of 15, David Shevlino developed a love of traditional figurative painting. His interest in modern art was cultivated considerably later. In his current work, the canvas has increasingly become a place to experiment with different techniques of paint application. He is particularly interested in exploring the line between the traditional representation of the figure and the abstraction of it, and his paintings reflect his simultaneous use of both approaches.
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Richard Butler’s cipher
UK-born, New York-based Richard Butler studied painting, and fifteen years ago, after a successful career as founder and singer/songwriter for the rock band The Psychedelic Furs, returned to painting. Most of his work is based on the image of his daughter. “She has become a cipher for me, an every man/woman.”
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Max Gasparini’s textured layers
Max Gasparini is a self-taught Italian artist who has been painting since a very young age.
In 2007 he moves away from classical techniques and started experimenting with different surface materials as well as painting techniques that result in intriguingly textured layers.
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Dario Puggioni’s living skin
Dario Puggioni experiments with the material character of surfaces by combining classical figure drawing with a more modern antagonist mood. His works are meticulously constructed and consist of various reactive materials – enamel, ink, acetic acid and oil on aluminum and copper. Where the layers of material constitute a surface on the ‘skin’ of the work, a process of peeling, decay and movement appears. The paint is forced to function as the surface of the canvas as well as the living ‘skin’ of the portrayed bodies. Source: Fellini Gallery
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Annemiek Vera’s vulnerable portraits
Intrigued by the inner human condition, Dutch artist Annemiek Vera aims to capture the intangible in her portraits. Memories, events, emotions and how they’ve effected people.
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Alyssa Monks’ distorted hyperrealism
American artist Alyssa Monks uses filters such as glass, vinyl, water, and steam to distort the body in shallow painted spaces. These filters allow for large areas of abstract design, while bits of the human form peak through.
“When I began painting the human body, I was obsessed with it and needed to create as much realism as possible. I chased realism until it began to unravel and deconstruct itself. I am exploring the possibility and potential where representational painting and abstraction meet – if both can coexist in the same moment.”
Photographs from Alyssa Monks / DFN Gallery NY / Cater News
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Ulrike Bolenz’ layered dimensions
German artist Ulrike Bolenz uses photography on plexiglass as a canvas on which she subsequently paints and draws. Her way of displaying her work further enhances its ghostly layered effect.
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Charles Reid’s watery light
Charles Reid is an American artist who uses watercolour. His rich compositions are spontaneous and display a profound understanding of light and color. His figures are beautifully rendered, in a simple, direct and natural, gestural manner that reveals his interest in painting the light as much as the person.
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Daniel Martin’s lost identities
Daniel Martin is a Dutch artist / graphic designer who’s paintings are characterised by quick and powerful strokes interwoven with finely painted elements, reflecting decaying beauty.
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Arnulf Rainer’s Face Farces
Arnulf Rainer is a renowned Austrian painter, photographer and printmaker. In 1968 he starts with Face Farces, a series of mixed media self-portraits displaying distorted facial expressions.
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