Link to Post:
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2012/11/artists-as-curators-brooke-moyse.html
As part of a series on artist-curators, Sharon Butler blogs about the exhibition The escape from the banal of everyday life to the world of the ideal, curated by Brooke Moyse, at NURTUREart, Brooklyn, on view through November 30, 2012.
Butler writes: "Presenting uncharacteristic work by abstract artists Jonathan Allmeier, Tamara Gonzales, EJ Hauser, Stephen Truax, and Maria Walker that is conceptual, formal, and sincere all at once, Moyse is interested in the objects' history, the mark-making, and the way that the artists combine the two to create powerful new experiences, linking the 19th-century Symbolist movement, mysticism, and transcendental experience to recent approaches in contemporary abstract painting."
Link to Post:
http://www.paintersbread.com/2012/10/maria-walker-interview.html
Michael Rutherford talks to artist Maria Walker about her work.
Rutherford writes: "Altered stretcher bars, torqued and triangulated planes, backs as fronts - the work of Maria Walker is a lesson in harmonizing tradition and experimentation... She has pushed her materials and flowed with them in order to elicit a distinctive sense of aesthetic truth. Many of her paintings involve dense soakings of pigment while others have a reworking of the stretchers that gives them the ability to stand on their own without being wall-mounted. A few pieces involve no canvas at all, which obviously changes how they’re approached and perceived. Through all this exploration, there’s a sense of sureness that surrounds what I consider challenging and thoughtful work."
