They teased us with the 'leg throwing' scene at the beginning of the season, but we had to wait until the season finale of The Real Housewives of New York City to see the drama play out! Aviva Drescher's characteristically dramatic, polarizing personality made for great television Wednesday night when during a climactic argument she ripped off her prosthetic leg then slammed it onto the dining table to demonstrate the 'only fake' part of her. We can't help but draw the connection to Robert Gober's infamous wax sculptures of dismembered body parts protruding from gallery walls. Once again life imitates art - thanks again Aviva for parody! [caption id="attachment_9983" align="alignleft" width="476"] Aviva Drescher's leg lying next to one of Robert Gober's wax sculptures'[/caption]  

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Talented, tenacious, smart and determined, Michelle Matson is gaining the critical respect long since established with her artistic contemporaries. Walking past Michelle's paper sculptures as a student at the School of Visual Arts was always an exciting experience. I found it remarkable how she could transform a traditionally soft, delicate material into such hard hitting, grotesquely comical sculptures. Primarily a sculptor, Michelle is an amazing craftsperson, wowing as much with the 'build' as with the content of her work. I remember a portrait that she once made of her partner at the time of us studying at SVA, there was a technical quality to the painting that was impressive but also an undefinable mystery that she achieved through the way it was painted.  Her commitment to craftsmanship and materiality has only strengthened since then and it is amazing to see her work as it has evolved to this point. [caption id="attachment_9974" align="alignleft" width="213"] Sculpture by Michelle Matson[/caption] Matson is included in an exhibition at Postmasters this month titled 'This is What Sculpture Looks Like' - a survey of new ideas in sculpture from the new generation of female artists bursting onto the New York contemporary scene. Roberta Smith from The New York Times noted 'The best things about this overflowing group show of sculptures by 16 artists are its freewheeling spirit and sprawling diversity of approaches, materials and subjects, as well as its exclusively female roster. To a degree, these factors balance the weaker, more conventional inclusions. Among the show’s standouts... Michelle Matson who lampoons public art, adding paper apples and banana peels to a Sheetrock mock-up of a sculpture, as if it were already dotted with colorful garbage.' New York Times July 24th 2014. Matson has been featured in Beautiful Decay as well as being a contestant on America's Work of Art. To follow Michelle's career or purchase Michelle's range of prints visit her PROFILE page at www.twfineart.com.

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The role of the infinitely small is infinitely large. Louis Pasteur

The reality of our reality is like that of an iceberg - the vast majority of it is hidden from view. Yet, with the aid of modern technology we are able to peer into this mysterious microscopic world and when we do, we uncover a whole new range of visual forms, some familiar, others completely alien.

Scale Free Network (SFN) is an Australian art-science collaborative made up of two artists (Briony Barr & Jacqueline Smith) and a microbiologist (Dr. Gregory Crocetti). Their interdisciplinary workshops and interactive installations focus on observation of the micro-scale as a source of inspiration and wonder, combining drawing processes, sculpture and microscopy as tools for visualising, exploring and learning about ‘invisible’ worlds.

Science & Art will walk hand in hand next month as TWFineArt collaborates with the Scale Free Network to create limited edition Cotton Rag Prints of images from under the microscope. Since scale and perception are key interests, we will be blowing up these tiny microscopic images to human proportions. The result being pixelated, painterly compositions of color and form where you not only questions the nature of the forms themselves, but also the nature of the imagery. Is it a tree or the branches of an amoeba - a painting or a photo? Regardless - the images are stunning!

Stay tuned to www.twfineart.com for the release date of this exciting collaboration.

     

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TWFA's Rebecca Norton is one busy lady with multiple exhibitions on the roster for 2014. Norton is currently in Kentucky for the opening of her exhibition In Between, where her work will be featured alongside fellow artist Nicolas Jorcino. "The exhibition In Between features paintings by Rebecca Norton and Nicolas Jorcino. The artists bring both modern aesthetics and timeless ideas to the centuries-old medium of painting. They test the spatial limits of two-dimensional art through the feeling of depth that they infuse in their compositions. This illusion of depth often makes us feel as though we could walk into and physically explore the painted worlds that they create and the scale of their paintings further accentuates the idea that their artworks are actually extensions of the space we inhabit. In addition to this interplay between two- and three-dimensional representations, their works cross the boundaries between painting and other disciplines – architecture, mathematics, music, urban planning, and poetry."  

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Next month we feature the work of Veronica Ibanez Romagnoli in the TWFineArt Gallery. A major theme in Veronica's work '4:36PM' is the transformative quality of light and the way it shapes how we perceive the world. Veronica's light box installations are created using multiple photo frames of the same interior scene taken over time. Each photograph is printed on glass and superimposed over the other to create a 'cross section' of moments. The work highlights the impermanence of the instant and the transient nature of our existence as our senses navigate reality moment by moment.

Working in a different medium all together, yet linked by the transformative theme, Rebecca Norton is occupied with the hidden geometric transformations of spatial reality. Affine transformations describe the constant movement of spatial planes as we move through reality. Recently Norton has been working on paintings & animations that capture the dynamism of this hidden spatial reality. View Rebecca Norton Animation here.

[caption id="attachment_8639" align="alignleft" width="338"] Untitled, Rebecca Norton 2014[/caption] [caption id="attachment_8642" align="alignleft" width="339"] Untitled, Rebecca Norton 2014[/caption]

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