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Michelle Avery Konczyk’s Watercolor Paintings Return in ‘Les Fleurs’

Michelle Avery Konczyk's riveting watercolor paintings offer surreal, intimate portraits. With the artist's custom framing for each work, each work functions as a gateway to the artist's explorations. The artist’s new show, "Les Fleurs" at Arch Enemy Arts, offers her most recent work and runs through June 28. The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com.

Michelle Avery Konczyk’s riveting watercolor paintings offer surreal, intimate portraits. With the artist’s custom framing for each work, each work functions as a gateway to the artist’s explorations. The artist’s new show, “Les Fleurs” at Arch Enemy Arts, offers her most recent work and runs through June 28. The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com.

“Les Fleurs is the second solo show from Philadelphia watercolorist Michelle Avery,” a statement says. “Throughout the collection highly rendered figures blur out into faded lines, representing the force or pull of collected memories as a lingering and permanent part of the subject, almost resembling a barcode – it’s not a coincidence, as life goes on these memories and experiences become the very fabric of who we are, who we were, and everything you’re meant to be.”

See more work from the show below.

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Michelle Avery, painting, Watercolor

painting, Rebecca Guay

December 15, 2014

Rebecca Guay is an artist whose dreamlike watercolor paintings invite viewers to languish in their sensual imagery. Ornamented with gold leaf, her female protagonists luxuriate on lofty clouds and in cool lagoons. The characters look like goddesses unfettered by mortal woes, at ease in their nudity. Guay's style of rendering figures with elongated faces and limbs evokes the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the 19th century, though her flat style gives her work a more contemporary look reminiscent of Japanese illustration. Take a look at some of her latest works below.

Painter Carlo Alberto Rastelli’s Off-Kilter, Intimate Portraits

Carlo Alberto Rastelli, painting, Pop Surrealism

May 14, 2018

Carlo Alberto Rastelli, a painter who lives work works in Milan, blends an off-kilter palette and perspective with unexpected textures to explore humanity and art history. His works can feel at once intimate and otherworldly in how they approach depth and form. The painter attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Riga.

The Recent Surreal Paintings of Rafael Silveira

painting, Rafael Silveira, surrealism

May 2, 2019

Rafael Silveira’s surreal world expands in new paintings from the Brazil-based artist. The artist was most recently part of the "Mother & Child" group show at Dorothy Circus Gallery, with the below painting, “Trifacial Mother,” featured. Rafael Silveira Silveira was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Eliana Marinari’s Mixed-Media Paintings Reflect on Memory

Eliana Marinari, Mixed Media, painting

April 12, 2019

Exploring the reality of "distorted or inaccessible memories," Eliana Marinari applies several layers of aerosol acrylic paint over ink and pastel drawings. In the artist’s “Recognition Memory” and “Recollection” series, portraits and still-life works are given this treatment, respectively. The resulting work is both haunting and brings reflection on our own limitations, as viewers.

Michelle Avery Konczyk’s Watercolor Paintings Return in ‘Les Fleurs’

Rebecca Guay’s Dreamlike Paintings Explore Sensuality

Painter Carlo Alberto Rastelli’s Off-Kilter, Intimate Portraits

The Recent Surreal Paintings of Rafael Silveira

Eliana Marinari’s Mixed-Media Paintings Reflect on Memory

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