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Weekly Update – Solid Gold winners at Vox Populi

This week’s Weekly has my review of Solid Gold at Vox Populi. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr. Vox Populi’s fourth annual emerging artist show is a lovely human-centric affair full of narrative art with many stories that attempt, each in its own way, to explain the vulnerable place humankind is at right now. We’re bodies and minds threatened by the collision of man-made and natural worlds and by disease, excess, hatred and war. But while the show channels some dark thoughts, the 24-artist show doesn’t whine or nag, and remains energetic if not optimistic. ... More » »

Painted Space, Real Space and Frank Stella

Post By Daniel Payavis Modernist painting has put serious restrictions on the illusion of pictorial space that had been growing so rich for more than 400 years. The limitations modern painting set for itself, at once cutting itself off from its potent past and viable future, led Frank Stella, in his lecture series Working Space, to rally for the essential nature of illusionistic space and its necessity for the ensured vitality of painting. Stella’s relationship with space is complex and unclear; he advocates the use of inventive pictorial space within the painted image, yet has hardly dealt with it himself. ... More » »