Ellen Altfest @ the Venice Biennale, 2013

Posted: January 18, 2015 | Author: * | Filed under: other people's art | Tags: 2013, 2014, altfest, ellen, hyperrealist, male back, nude, painting | Leave a comment

Ellen Altfest, born in 1970 in New York, creates modestly scaled, hyerrealistic paintings of still lives, landscapes, and truncated male nudes that are exceptionally labored. All work is done from life, using natural light. Works take months, even years to complete. Futurelab first encountered her work, pictured below, at the 2013 Venice Biennale show, The Encyclopedic Palace, curated by Massimiliano Gioni.

Posted: December 15, 2014 | Author: * | Filed under: other people's art | Tags: 2014, bollinger, zürcher | Leave a comment

Matt Bollinger at Zürcher Gallery, December 2014

John Walker @ Alexandre Gallery, October-November 2014

Posted: November 19, 2014 | Author: * | Filed under: other people's art | Tags: 2014, alexandre, artist, boston, Gallery, New York, painter, Walker | Leave a comment

This John Walker exhibition at the Alexandre Gallery is fantastic. A painter’s painter, these are about the material. These careful abstractions of a real place, a spot he found in Maine, the works are full of creative mark-making that will entice you jump back on the subway and head to the studio to try some of these moves yourself. Or at least that’s how it made us feel. Enjoy!