With another exhibition opening March 8th at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Carlson Hatton is on fire! Featured in this months Artillerymag as Killer Pick of the Week' and also Artscenecal, his work is receiving some great attention! Rightly so, Hatton's command of material and content is inspiring. "The power of Hatton's practice rests in precision and fanatical attention to detail as images merge and meander, converge and recede in a hypnotic sort of arabesque." Eve Wood Visit our SHOP to get your limited edition print by Carlson Hatton while they last!

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Sometimes the beauty of an artwork is obvious, other times it takes perseverance to uncover a surprising splendor that we were originally blind to. In some ways I like that kind of art most of all, an unexpected pleasure, a discovery. Jeanette Winterson says that “the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue,” and I think that she is right. Because looking at art can be difficult, especially art that isn’t beautiful first off, we don’t allow ourselves time to really see and instead seek a quantifiable method of understanding it. The public art experience, the one that we have in a gallery or museum provides a yard-stick; the intellectual rhetoric of the wall plaque, the canonization of the artist and the price tag are the criteria that we can more easily judge art by. The key when looking at ‘difficult’ art is taking the time to look at the elements at play within the piece, the line, the space, the color, the form. When we really look at theses elements and the interactions between them we can start to develop a relationship with the work and often find beauty in the unexpected. We begin to realize that the art mirrors the complexity of our own lives and it becomes hard to look away.  

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TWFA artist Stephen Key's latest exhibition - Stephen Key, An Art Show, opens March 8th at Capsule. Key's work explores the self, spirituality, mythology and our place as living, feeling creatures in relation to the world around us. Elegantly simple, Key’s work possesses strong emotional content and speaks powerfully through humble imagery.

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Many people seem unsure as to how to correctly hang an artwork. While there is no right or wrong way, there is a method that maximizes visibility and guarantees consistency throughout your home as your collection grows and you hang more art on your walls. To make things easy, our frames are custom fitted with the highest quality hardware for hanging and are ready for installation, all you need is picture hook, a measuring tape, a graphite pencil and a hammer. Make sure that you choose a picture hook that can support the weight of the piece you plan on hanging.

TWFA Weight Guide for framed prints:

• Small - 3.0 kg
• Medium - 3.5 kg
• Large -  4.0 kg
• XL - 5.0 kg

Here is a simple step by step guide to successfully hang your TWFA print.

Step 1. Using the measuring tape, measure the total horizontal width of the wall you have chosen to hang the artwork on. Mark the halfway point with the graphite pencil – these marks can easily be erased.

Step 2.  

From the horizontal halfway point, measure the vertical distance from the floor to your eye level (approx. 60 - 65 inches) and mark that point on the wall. When looking at an artwork your eye should fall 1/3 of the way down from the top of the artwork. 

  Step 3. At the vertical point you just marked, hammer the picture hook into your plaster wall. The picture hook goes into the wall on an angle, and is able to support more weight than a simple nail or screw.   Step 4. Grab the center point of the string at the back of the picture frame and hang that point over the picture hook.

Step 6. 

Level the painting to make sure that it is hanging evenly. All done!

 

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We believe that great art should be accessible and have developed an affordable, ever evolving print portfolio that delivers an authentic collecting experience to novices and experts alike. Keep up to date with our artists by subscribing to TWFA's monthly newsletter on our Homepage. 

Here's what our artists are up to this week:

• Artists Rebecca Norton & Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe discuss drawing and abstraction in this edition of Art Critical:

                    http://abstractcritical.com/article/drawing-in-abstract-painting-ten-perspectives/

• Incredible New York based artist Christian Haub joins TWFA."I can remember Chris Wool visiting the studio in about 1980 and telling me that no one our generation was making paintings like mine. I thought that was a good thing, but there was really not much I could do about it anyway." CH For limited edition prints by Christian Haub visit:

                    http://twfineart.com/product-category/artists/christian-haub-artists/

[caption id="attachment_6264" align="aligncenter" width="257"]    Michael Goldberg, Christian Haub 2011[/caption]

• Carlson Hatton's solo show 'Stupor' opens this weekend at Barrett Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Hatton's visually captivating, sometimes unsettling vision of reality is something to behold!

• Emily Silver is featured in the SUR: Biennial, including a great 8 page spread featuring Silver's sculptural work. "This body of work seeks to examine the space between the celebratory, and the tragedy that simultaneously exist in the life of an event". Visit twfineart.com to view Silver's print portfolio.

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