Jessie Binder’s art is beguilingly simple, but her paintings are the result of well calculated accumulations of mark making and abstraction. Memories and feelings from everyday life are at the heart of her work and the inspiration for her creative process, intuitively selecting colors to convey just the right mood. At first glance they can be wildly disorienting, with no immediate image or recognizable forms, as if we were unexpectedly struck from behind or witnessing the afterimage of bright fireworks. The chaos alone can be enough to hold our gaze. However, the magic of Binder’s work comes from longer looks, as images begin to come into focus just as we begin to let our minds wander: an hourglass, a house, a landscape begins to emerge, not as a photograph, but as a distant memory, a faded and blurry image on the peripherals of our mind. Looking at her work is like trying to remember an old friend’s face from a dream; we know that it’s there, but the image is just on the tip of our tongues.
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Coney Island Series
Melbourne artist Mark Ogge lives and works in an old church in Clunes, in country Victoria. He was the first artist commissioned by Spiegelworld, creating an entrance archway mural in 2006. Mark has long been fascinated by the iconography of the circus and fairground, exploring the dichotomy between enchantment and disillusionment.
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Absinthe Under The Brooklyn Bridge
The unpredictability of Steve Horlock’s paintings may come from his pervasive curiosity about life; or perhapshis ten-years experience body painting; possibly his fascination with mythology and the complexities of the world. Whichever it may be, this self-taught Las Vegas artist knows no bounds when it comes to painting ideas:whether inspired by Vegas’ historic Miss Atomic […]
