"There is a great movement underway, an attempt to cure painting of the explanationitis virus that has spread like a leaden blanket over our culture. Painting is painting and can happen in a million ways. What lends intensity to each piece is the feeling with which it is made and not the genre to which it might get apportioned." Lucio Pozzi Our sentiments exactly Lucio!! [caption id="attachment_13827" align="aligncenter" width="399"] Lucio Pozzi[/caption]

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Always keeping it fresh! This week we added exclusive new limited edition prints by New Yorker Ed Granger and Israeli artist Keren Paz. Ed's limited edition abstract prints confuses the senses. Is the pattern a collage? Digital drawing? A hybrid maybe? Anyway you look at it, Ed's work is a celebratory explosion of color that takes us to a place of form vs formlessness. [caption id="attachment_13654" align="aligncenter" width="379"] Meta Shift 7, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Ed Granger[/caption]   Keren Paz has released a new series of ambient landscapes in limited edition print. These pieces engulf you in color and look fantastic in the larger print sizes adding mood and light to any room! [caption id="attachment_13648" align="aligncenter" width="800"] 1.19 2013. Limited Edition Print by Keren Paz[/caption] Click on their links above to visit their page in our shop & see the full collection!

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TWFINEART recently teamed with local artist Gert Geyer when asked by architect Tobias Benz to create a cutting edge artwork for a new residential development in Brisbane. It is a monster (1.5 stories high) and was created using local flora as inspiration. While we can't reveal images of the piece, we can say that we visited the factory today and witnessed how the state of the art piece is being produced. Technology is amazing. Now we have  the opportunity to create one off works like this in sensational detail without the exorbitant prices of the past. Rather than choose off the shelf designs, architects and developers now have the opportunity to commission real work by real artists in a one off manner that gives their design a true signature, and even more importantly brings beautiful art into our streets and dwellings. A little sneak peek at some behind the scenes images: [caption id="attachment_13630" align="aligncenter" width="700"] First Continuous Cut[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13631" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Polishing the sections before treatment[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13632" align="aligncenter" width="700"] A beautiful pile of aluminum confetti piled up from the vacuums.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13633" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Gert Geyer standing in between her creation.[/caption]

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We were approached by James Street to give our take on why it's important to buy local. Christmas might have passed, but the reasons to buy locally remain the same.

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2015 also means the awaited release of a series of work by Jenny Sharaf in limited edition print. I used to work with the legendary artist Lynda Benglis and was always fascinated by her poured latex rubber paintings. Sharaf uses Lynda as inspiration and utilizes a similar technique to create masterful works of poured paint that are beautiful improvised works of color and form. In true post modern fashion, Sharaf's practice utlizes a variety of mediums to creates wonderful works that embrace not only art history but the sensation of contemporary culture. Sharaf was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently lives in San Francisco, CA. Through painting, video, works on paper, and installation, Sharaf explores the mythology of the California girl, the role of the female artist, and the image of the 21st century woman in order to illuminate the evolving generational shifts of feminism and contemporary notions of the gaze. Working in abstraction, her imagery encompasses trashy reality media, sophisticated starlets, pop culture and psychedelic skin-referencing forms of bright color. While examining the complexity of feminism’s legacy, Sharaf works with images that reflect on this loaded history and explores her niche within a generation of women who appear disconnected from that struggle. As a California blond herself, she maps a history and discourse of blondes in the media and adopts tropes of pop art, abstract expressionist painting and low-brow media. Sharaf has shown in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. She also has a strong curatorial practice and is devoted to the Bay Area art scene. Her recent projects have been featured in the Huffington Post, SF Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal and New York Times’ T-Blog. [caption id="attachment_13301" align="aligncenter" width="628"] Flower Face, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Jenny Sharaf[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13300" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Poured Painting II, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Jenny Sharaf[/caption]  

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