Painter Edward del Rosario’s theatrical, yet controlled tableaus carry cross-cultural references. Often in the artist’s work, each of the characters seem to have their own narrative or motivation, creating a piece teeming with both humor and surprising complexity, once absorbed.
“I have been using painting to explore a narrative that deals with power struggles in the aftermath of a post post-colonial world,” the artist told Nancy Margolis Gallery. “My paintings, oil on linen, consist of finely detailed figures in colorful costumes staged on flat color or minimalist backgrounds. The paintings are either miniature portraits or characters engaged in larger dramatic scenes drawn from the narrative. The characters exist in an austere, allegorical world where identity, tradition, belief, and myth all intersect to redefine and recreate meaning.”
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Alvin Ong's oil paintings, depicting decadence and nondiscriminatory consumption, crackle with energy. These works, following a tradition in art history of examining these themes, move between eroticism and aggression. The Singaporean artist offered this most recent body of work as "Supper Club" earlier this year.
Anyone who's ever played the computer game the Sims knows the strange, God-like feeling of watching miniature people living their lives from above. Brazilian artist 
Isaac Cordal brings new sculptures to C.O.A. Galerie in Montreal with "Ego Monuments," his distinctive everyman showing the solitude of contemporary living. Alongside his balding figures is a depicting of the U.S.'s embattled leader in "Game of Thrones" and human-faced livestock grazing an urban puddle. The show runs through Oct. 12. (Cordal was last featured on our site 
On October 14th, French artists