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Micro Gallery

Tamerlie Philippe – Fading Memories

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

Inspired by memories from her country of origin, Haiti, Tamerlie Philippe's faceless paintings are an ambivalent, diminishing recollection of home.

Tagged childhood, faces, fading, Haiti, impermanence, memory, painting, transience1 Comment
Micro Gallery

Jacob Lehmann – Constructed Spaces

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

In his collaged paintings, Jacob Lehmann explores the relationships between isolation and nostalgia, in connection to childhood.

Tagged childhood, collage, isolation, landscape, nostalgia, painting1 Comment
Micro Gallery

Gabriela De Paz – Enredadera

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Vanessa Able

Gabriela De Paz's flower paintings are portraits of emotions and a homage to the perpetual flux of the human condition.

Tagged color, emotion, flowers, memory, nature, painting, portraitsLeave a comment
Dane Lyn
Featured Poetry

Dane Lyn – holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019

July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Dane Lyn's "holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019" is a brilliant work of ekphrastic poetry, inspired by a religious painting by an unknown artist, titled "The Great Harlot of Babylon".

Tagged art, artwork, ekphrastic, faith, hypocrisy, Judgement, misogyny, painting, religion, religious art, Women1 Comment
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Micro Gallery

Dave Sims – Watercolors

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

Dave Sims' watercolor paintings are a submission to the chance of creation and a surrender to emptiness.

Tagged art, chance, Emptiness, painting, surrender, watercolors, ZenLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Cynthia Ruse – The In-Between

March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Cynthia Ruse's The In-Between reflects the parallel and layered elements of life, where light and darkness are blurred and the narrative of a painting becomes experience in itself.

Tagged art, Darkness, Experience, layer, Light, painting, space2 Comments
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