“Creativity takes courage”
Henri Matisse
Artist Nigel Cooke in his studio. Photo by FADMagazine
"The myth of Acteon makes me think of being misunderstood, condemned. About irreversible consequences, of punishment and judgement. But his transformation also calls to mind coming closer to nature, in his case at the cost of how he considered himself human, cultured, separate, and a predator. Maybe there’s an ecological thought in here, but also one about what it feels like to be a painter, balancing 2 kinds of inner nature". Nigel Cooke
2019
Oil and Acrylic on Linen
164x225x5cm
2019
Oil and Acrylic on Linen
164x225x5cm
Conjured Parts (eye), Ferguson, 2016
"I am interested in the potential of ‘psychogeographies’, which suggests that within an invisible and invented creative space the individual can tap a resource of self-determination and resistance." Julie Mehretu
©An Interview with Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting. By Olukemi Ilesanmi. 2003
Image ©Julie Mehretu - Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
Ink and acrylic on canvas,
84 x 96 in - 213.4 x 243.8 cm
The Broad Museum Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Fugitive Breath Drawing, 2018
"One of the reasons I have always been interested in working within the limits of abstraction is because there is the capacity of chance, possibility, and opacity. There is a deep history of the semiotics of representative work, and the cultural specificity in it is undeniable." Julie Mehrethu.
© An Interview with Julie Mehretu: The Mark of an Artist.By Mark Benjami.2020
Image ©Julie Mehretu - Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
Ink and acrylic on paper
Paper: 26 1/8 x 40 in -66.4 x 101.6 cm
Frame: 29 1/4 x 43 x 1 1/2 in. (74.3 x 109.2 x 3.8 cm)
Michael Wolf is an NYC area artist whose work encompasses sculpture, installation, and drawing. Architectural spaces and forms inspire Wolf's artwork. He uses these forms as a metaphor for the human experience. The human need for shelter both physically and psychologically permeates his work. The artist primarily uses wood, stone, metal, and gold leaf, creating contemporary art with an ongoing dialogue with history.
Palladian Dream, 2021
"Palladian Dream was inspired by my travels in Italy and Greece. While traveling, I noticed many
sculptural niches incorporated into the architecture, some of which housed and sheltered sculptures, and
some were left empty. I was particularly attracted to the empty niches, they fueled my imagination of
what they could contain and protect. Palladio was, of course, the Italian renaissance architect known for
his use of symmetry and harmonious proportions." © Michael Wolf - Courtesy of the artist
Palladian Dream:
Wood, 24k gold leaf, oil paint 13 x 15.5 x 2.25 inches
Sanctuary in Fairyland, 2021
"I started the series Sanctuary in Fairyland during a residency sponsored by the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation during the early days of the pandemic. The title comes from a social media post by an English museum director who had been taking rides into the English countryside to escape the monotony lockdown. Once, he stopped at a medieval church in an area of England known for its stories about fairies. It began to rain, and he took refuge in the church. During the brief shower, he "spent what felt like an enchanted time watching through the doorway as the rain lashed down on the Downs." I was also taking trips into rural areas near me in the same period, discovering new and unusual places. My drawings and sculptures attempt to capture the feeling of that unique period." © Michael Wolf - Courtesy of the Artist
Sanctuary in Fairyland:
Wood, 24k gold leaf, oil, and acrylic paint 30 x 24 x 2.25 inches
Susanna Costantini, Italian textile artist :
“My great grandmother was a weaver. She used to cultivate, to spin linen threads, to dress the loom and then to weave for crafting sheet towels or fabrics to be used every day. I still have worn out rags and incredibly fresh linen sheets which are over 100 years old. The fascinating irregularities of hand-spun threads and the narrative of hand weaving is mesmeric. Those antique and textured fabrics keep on teaching and telling me about the wisdom of her hands. Hand weaving seems an extreme analog practice nowadays but it could be considered a contemporary media language in some respects. Warp and weft are like a binary system that offers many possibilities of coding, mixing materials and techniques. Weaving is also a way to explore visual art and communicate”.
© Courtesy - Susanna Costantini
"The Flag series is a homage to the archaic nature of Abruzzo with its wide and still wild spaces. These Flags are like banner of those lands whose nature is harsh but at the same time fragile. Flags are mainly made of wool, the soft, warm and generous material used by shepherds to protect themselves from the cold temperatures of prairies. Flags hand woven works are crafted by using mainly Abruzzo-sourced organic wool from grazing sheep in the Campo Imperatore, an area at over 2000 metres of altitude".
Limited Edition of 5
Size: 62 cm x 4 cm x 62 cm
Oak framed
"Opus V is a handwoven tapestry part of a series inspired by the ancient construction techniques of the stone huts, ancient rural shelters of shepherds in central Italy in which stones were carefully chosen and carefully superimposed without the use of bonding material. Opus V has been woven mainly by using natural sheep wool from sheep grazed in Abruzzo, cotton for the warp, hemp and linen for geometric insert in the weft"
Size : 61 (h) x 4 (d) x 61 (w)
This tapestry is part of the Gleaning project, a series of weavings inspired by Agnes Varda's documentary Les glaneurs et la glaneuse.
These hand woven works are indeed the result of a
"gleaning" process. By using remnants of warps and other weavings,
small quantities of found or donated yarns, Susanna Costantini creates weavings where materials and stories intertwine.
The variations in the weaving are the traces of an emotional
elaboration process in which multiple narratives take shape, small
stories from the past are interwoven with the present and the
lived experience during weaving.
“The activity of gleaning is something necessary that we practice
every day and has to do with recovering both material and
emotional value. The practice of gleaning brings with it a moment
of choice; one evaluates, decides whether to let go, recover or
process.”
© Courtesy - Susanna Costantini
This work is unique.
Size: 63 cm x 4 cm x 75 cm
Composition: cotton, wool