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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This month TWFINEART's Greg MacLaughlin is featured in [B]racket Magazine. An insightful article on Greg's digital minimalism!

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Together with CHASING TAIL we have released a new series of prints by the sensational Matt Sheridan. In the Gallery we are featuring CHASING TAIL - one of Matt's moving artworks. The piece is an animated composite of physical & digital painting that revolutionizes the traditional medium by making it four dimensional. A painting of the 21st Century!

Here is a little insight into Matt Sheridan's innovative process and the story behind the latest series of prints.

Each of the paper paintings that we have released in print was created to generate sequentialized marks to be scanned and composited into video paintings-in-motion. Together they create a moving painting, and as stand alone pieces they are sensational - even better is a cluster!

[caption id="attachment_13095" align="alignleft" width="233"] Modular Painting VIII, 2013. Limited Edition Print by Matt Sheridan[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13079" align="alignleft" width="227"] Modular Painting V, 2013. Limited Edition Print by Matt Sheridan[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13075" align="alignleft" width="221"] Modular Painting II, 2013. Limited Edition Print by Matt Sheridan[/caption]

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Still Systemic Sequence 003 are acrylic on gessoed paper (12 sheets/ set, each mounted to black Sintra floats separated 6" horizontally and 3" vertically), set = 42" x 54" (107 x 137 cm) / each sheet = 9" x 12" (23 x 30.5 cm), 2012. Each print has been released in an edition of 200.

http://www.msheridanstudio.com/

Matt Sheridan is currently in residence in Japan and participating in Paradise Air.

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We have been engaging in some pretty great street/public art projects of late! Just this last weekend we collaborated with Brisbane Riverview Hotel to bring Californian artist Elise Lee to Brisbane. The cutting edge hotel commissioned the moving painting 'The Melody of Coexistence' specifically for the event. The animated artwork exploded like the Big Bang onto the surface of the hotel, expanding and disappearing in explosions of color and form. Like time, the artwork never repeated itself; relentlessly regenerating in new expanses & combinations of form and color. Artist Elise Lee strives to mediate between the personal experiences of joy and happiness, from the real to the unreal, remaining open to the perpetual re-assignment of either state. The circular shape of bright colors and playful movements are an invitation to party in the artist’s personal vocabulary. The repetition of singular shapes creates a visual complexity, while continuously adding layers of color and shape to ultimately create a harmony akin to music. Greg Henderson documented the event for us and produced these stunning images!    

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  For the James Street RESORT event, we collaborated with James Street and artist Briony Barr to create a RESORT themed artwork to light up the facade of the Scanlan Theodore store on James St. The kitsch artwork focused on the growth patterns of crystal trees. Never one to take life or art two seriously, Barr's animated installation lit up the street and provided a beautiful focal point for the Up Late shoppers!

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