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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Launching this month will be a collaborative venture between Brooklyn artist Ed Granger and TWFINEART. We have worked together to bring to you 8 exclusive works by the artist in limited edition print.

Ed Granger's Art + Context

“At once composed and formless, I owe an obvious debt to the Fauvists’ supremacy of color over form, an aesthetic approach in harmony—or is it tension?—within these structurally informed compositions. Granger's background in architecture is evident is his compositions. Their controlled fluidity is an intentional effort to create something at once structured and formless, but also allowing the process to happen by chance. His works are about being synchronized in time and space and Granger's intent is to allow his work to act as a vessel to receive a conscious awareness of these subconscious events of daily life, which embodies one’s abnormal physical and psychological stages.”

Granger's work represents awkwardly beautiful fantasy worlds. Nature is a subtle, understated condition in my work. I have always been interested in creating works that asks the viewer to participate in the dialogue and or interaction between objects and their environment.

Granger collect things that have a nostalgic or dreamlike feel that would represent an oeuvre of spirited work that inhibit thought, and early nostalgia electricity with painterly qualities and color over direct representation and realistic values. As he works his way through each layer, the older, beginning layers start to fade away and allow them work their way into the foreground of the composition. Based on his experimental qualities, Ed chooses how the material and its physical presence can rely on another material to do something peculiar and sometimes obscure, to create a language of it’s own. By deconstructing these elements and putting them back together in a pure yet raw fashion, he able to find a repetitive process that engages the viewer and makes you question your senses, which is the source of matter and the space in which we exist. (through our senses is why we choose to live this physical existence) The overlapping of these materials is also way to collect memories or revert back to lost moments, dreams, or childhood.

[caption id="attachment_13264" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Smeared, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Ed Granger[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13266" align="aligncenter" width="542"] Checkered, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Ed Granger[/caption]  

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Fresh from her summer residency in Georgia, Abby Goldstein is back in New York City with a beautiful body of new work! Influenced by maps and the rhythms and patterns of nature, Goldstein's work has taken on a natural color palette with references to biology and flora intertwined with her characteristically lyrical line. In the words of Paul Klee "a line is a dot that went for a walk" and Abby's works are a mass of wandering dots spreading across the paper, intertwining and overlapping each other to create an abstract web of line and color. Perhaps in an effort to contain her roaming line, Abby often marks out a pencil drawn border within the page. This imposed perimeter however seems no match for her line and it's boundaries are often breached by the wandering dots. The edge of the page is more definite and not so forgiving and an interesting tension is created between the surface of the paper and the markings of Goldstein. The masses of lines have no option in this case but to bounce around the interior of the page, twisting back from the edge to reconnect with the central mass as if encased by the 2 dimensional format. We are thrilled to add a selection of Abby's summer portfolio to TWFineArt's New Art in Print. Visit Abby's PAGE to see the new selection of work in limited edition print. Small prints start at $85.00 and we ship world wide.

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Elise Lee's signature graphic pop style draws inspiration from minimalism and Asian Pop Art to create an exciting, uplifting & clean cut visual experience. Playing with the iconography of donuts, love hearts and sausage tubes, Lee's work is quirky and fun - perfect for a space that needs a little life. Lee earned her post graduate degree in Fine Art from the renowned Pratt Institute in New York City before moving to Los Angeles where she currently lives and works. She exhibits across the United States and in Korea and has been published in Art Buzz, Art Slant and Studio Visit Magazine. TWFineArt is Lee's exclusive dealer in Australia and we are thrilled to introduce her to our portfolio of limited edition prints. Elise's range of prints can be sized from SMALL: 400 mm x 500mm to XL 800mm x 1000mm and look fantastic set against a minimal backdrop or room design. Visit our SHOP to view Elise's full series of available work. We will print, frame, pack and ship the work directly to your door, or you can pick it up in the TWFineArt Gallery & GuideShop on James Street in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley.  

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