Found Art

Local Council Collection, Fairfield.

Local Walk

Slip board

Primary tones and marks

Found Art

Concrete support in Ivanhoe.

Two Melbourne pushbikes

Virginia Kaiser

Virginia Kaiser. Slight Breeze, 2011. Date palm fruit stalks 

Virginia Kaiser. Dragon Vessel, 2011. Dragon tree and wisteria. 44 x 35 x 30cm.

Virginia Kaiser is a basket weaver who lives in Broken Hill, outback NSW. Her exquisitely crafted baskets made from natural fibres have a cross cultural feel due to the materials she uses and references to nature.

Kai Althoff

Kai Althoff, "Punkt, Absatz, Blümli" (period, paragraph, Blümli), 2011.

Kai Althoff (1966) is a German visual artist who has shown in exhibitions including the 2004 Venice Biennale and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Punkt, Absatz, Blümli" (period, paragraph, Blümli), 2011, was held at Gladstone Gallery, New York. The exhibition includes soft sculpture figures, paintings and drawings. The painted yellow floor casts an industrial setting for the above horizontal rug painting. The overall installation depicts some fantastic situational narrative - almost a sculptural performance reminiscent of performances by the artist, Joseph Beuys.

Antoni Tapies

Another master dies. Read the New York Times article here

Local Walk

Wall panel, Clifton Hill.

Local Walk

Wood panel wall in Richmond.

Mickail Lezin

Mickail Lezin's new work for the exhibition, 'Iron rusts easily', November 2011, Art-Propaganda Gallery, Samara, Russia, just gets better. You can view the exhibition on his blog here. Every painting is good. 

Judith Scott

Just discovered the work of Judith Scott, 1943-2005. There is a good You Tube here. The works are so perfectly beautiful but also so free. Amazing.

Keith Allyn

Old Man Sweater, oil, wood, staples, and my favorite sweater ever, 9 3/4″ x 6 15/16″, 2011 

Old Man Sweater, 2011, installed.

American artist, Keith Allyn makes interesting paintings/objects which are then installed in various interiors. The sites chosen are all slightly off beat and downtrodden. Spaces include a post office, factories, diners and medical rooms. His blog is here, worth a look.

Shield me

Artist unknown, painted shield, 180 x 51 cm.

Image reproduced from Mossgreen Gallery on Art Net 

I first found this shield of unknown origin at Art Propelled Tumblr Blog.

Mikhail Lezin

Pure Formality, (Perm art-residence) June 2011

Image reproduced from Mikhail Lezin Blogspot

I got a lot of pleasure looking at a series of abstractions in situ in this art residence by Russian artist, Mikhail Lezin. The painting constructions and the environment just jell so nicely.

Johnnie Winona Ross

Corn Creek Seeps 01, 2010. Burnt bone, graphite/paint burnished on bleached linen, 153 x 145 cm.

Black Creek Seeps, 2009. Acrylic on burnished linen, 92 x 87 cm.
Images Reproduced from Stephen Haller Gallery, New York.

"....Repeating the mark, or the drip, scraping, burnishing, builds a physical history within the painting …… when you see worn stone steps, whether at an Anasazi site, or the Met, it is interesting to consider the scores of people that have used or are using the steps in roughly the same way; or seeing the keys on an old piano, worn with use. You realize that you are just part of the stream of history, a large or small part, but you are only  moving  through.”     Johnnie Winona Ross

Text reproduced from Kate Beck :: Art Notes