Hueman Offers New Paintings in ‘Veiled Intent’

The mixed-media paintings of Hueman return with a new show at Mirus Gallery. "Veiled Intent" collects works crafted with acrylics, spray paint, and stretched fabric. The artist says that figures in this series are "merely shadows or ghosts." Hueman was featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 43.

The mixed-media paintings of Hueman return with a new show at Mirus Gallery. “Veiled Intent” collects works crafted with acrylics, spray paint, and stretched fabric. The artist says that figures in this series are “merely shadows or ghosts.” Hueman was featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 43.

“There are echoes of the Catholic devotional art which Hueman experienced growing up—expressed as aesthetic influences from Renaissance textiles and drapery to the bright flourishes of illuminated manuscripts, as well as in a more general motif of spiritual experience,” Hueman says. “In this new evolution of her style, she is equally inspired by more conceptual contemporary art historical traditions of California Minimalism and Light and Space artists like Robert Irwin and James Turrell—artists using innovative materiality in their explorations of pure color and ambient light.”

The show runs Sept. 8-29. See more of the artist’s work, from an earlier studio visit, below.

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Hueman, Mixed Media, painting

Monica Rohan, painting, pattern, textiles

September 16, 2015

Monica Rohan paints self-portraits in which she is eternally hiding behind and searching within vibrant, patterned textiles and luscious, green plants. The Australian artist is inspired by her own "rural-idyll" childhood and the "internal longing of the 19th century novel." Her characters express these investigations through a sentiment of both innocent play and anxious isolation. Forests and flowers, dresses and blankets become extensions of her characters' physical and psychological beings. By always concealing the women's faces, Rohan relies on body language to convey the characters' emotional states. For example, some characters are seen from a birds-eye view, curled with their heads burrowed in patchwork quilts. Others thrash and dance; the movement causing the women's outer dresses to become indistinguishable from their physical forms.

Johan Barrios’s Ominous Paintings of High Society

drawing, Johan Barras, painting

November 18, 2014

Colombian artist Johan Barrios seems to be fascinated with how quickly the superficial veneer of propriety can disintegrate. His well-heeled and well-groomed characters are outfitted with all the signifiers of upper class status — blouses neatly tucked into pencil skirts, tailored blazers, leather couches. Yet by omitting select details in his realistically-rendered works, Barrios endows them with a sinister tone. In one piece, a woman lies despondent on a glossy, tile floor. Black party balloons hover over her like an ominous cloud. A creeping suspicion sets in as one begins to wonder whether this polished world hides dark secrets.

Ben Smith’s Whimsical “Flux” Painting Series

Ben Smith, painting

July 1, 2014

Australian artist Ben Smith's take on portraiture is loose and impressionistic, adhering to the classical tradition of figure painting. Yet his latest series, titled "Flux," pops with candy-colored hues — the artificial colors that bleed into our lives by way of mass-produced products and media. The teals and violets add a playful quality to the work, accentuated by the surreal creatures he introduces into his whimsical scenarios. A miniature albino lion in one piece looks like it would make for an excellent viral pet video if it were a real animal; in another painting, a two-headed horse presents a perplexing and ultimately disturbing anatomical riddle. Tying together various threads in the world around him, Smith creates imaginative vignettes that engage the senses.

Cindy Wright Paints Flesh, Decay in Unnerving Still Lifes

Cindy Wright, painting, still life

October 21, 2014

Belgian artist Cindy Wright's realist approach to her paintings is straightforward and traditional, but her subject matter imbues her work with an haunting, enigmatic ambiance. Wright is interested in death and decay. Her still lifes focus on single objects — one polished skull, a slab of fresh meat bleeding on the ground. Presented to us without context or an explanation, the morbid subjects exemplify the physicality of flesh. In this way, her work continues the Northern Renaissance tradition of vanitas paintings, still lifes meant to evoke the passage of time and one's inevitable mortality.

Hueman Offers New Paintings in ‘Veiled Intent’

Monica Rohan’s Self Portraits are Forever Lost in Textiles

Johan Barrios’s Ominous Paintings of High Society

Ben Smith’s Whimsical “Flux” Painting Series

Cindy Wright Paints Flesh, Decay in Unnerving Still Lifes

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