In the first of this brand new series, professional artist Matthew Palmer takes 3 students Mandy, Harry and Nigel through a simple watercolour painting, an autumnal landscape. Matthew begins this painting by explaining how to start with a wet in wet sky before adding some distant trees using the stippling technique. Follow Matthew as he teaches you how to add simple yet effective foreground details, ...
Artist Matthew Day Jackson is switching mega-galleries. After more than a decade at Hauser & Wirth, he’s now set to be shown globally by Pace Gallery, which will represent him alongside Grimm Gallery, Pace announced on Tuesday. It is rare, although not entirely unheard of, for artists to hop between mega-galleries. Jeff Koons left David Zwirner and Gagosian for Pace last year. Meanwhile, earlier ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, has tapped Matthew Hargraves to be its director. Hargraves has been with the Wadsworth since June 2021, when he joined as interim chief curator, after being chief curator of art collections at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven. Tom Loughman stepped down as director and ...
The late artist Matthew Wong broke into the art world around 2017 with his luminous landscapes: blue mountains blanketed with snow, frozen lakes, hypnotic skies composed of cobblestone brushstrokes. Melancholic and mosaic, his art was heralded as a worthy successor of Vincent van Gogh—with intriguing elements of Fauvism and Gustav Klimt. Wong was self-taught, and people responded to the earnestness of his feelings. In ...
Simone Leigh, who departed the mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth last October after just 21 months, has joined Matthew Marks gallery. The artist, who is preparing to represent the United States at the 2022 Venice Biennale, joins a roster that includes Alex Da Corte, Martin Puryear, and Jasper Johns. She made her debut with Matthew Marks at Art Basel Miami Beach, which opened this week. ...
Reimagining scenes from her childhood, Sasha Gordon creates vibrant worlds brimming with quotidian details incongruous with memory’s elusive nature. Using vibrant colored pencils and neon oil paints, the Brooklyn-based painter depicts versions of herself engaging in the recreational activities typical of her suburban upbringing in Westchester County, New York. While her palette is often unnaturally electric, Gordon takes care to capture naturalistic particulars, such ...
When the artist Matthew Wong was just starting his painting practice, in 2013, he said in an interview that he had no fixed schedule for going about his work—with one exception. “The only thing that takes place at the same time every day is when I get out of bed, I have to do an ink drawing before doing anything else, such as brushing ...
The Art & Soul festival continues, and the work of Artist Matthew Cooper speaks to the beauty of the African-American people and culture. He recently joined Lindsey Lord & the Arts Council of Indianapolis for a look at his artwork. Matthew Cooper is an emerging visual artist from Indianapolis, Indiana. His paintings often feature a variety of media including acrylic paint, oil paint, oil ...
The three-day event celebrates the magazine's 30th anniversary. Matthew Barney, Redoubt (2019) production still. Courtesy Grasshopper Pictures. Artists Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Lubaina Himid, Anicka Yi, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Kara Walker will all take part in an online festival arranged by Frieze from February 17 to 19. The digital festival will also feature an acoustic set by singer-songwriter Arlo Parks and, unexpectedly, cocktail mixing ...
Wong repeatedly smashed records in 2020, beating high price estimates several times over. Matthew Wong, River at Dusk (2018). Oil on canvas. Courtesy Phillips. Phillips set a record price for a Matthew Wong work sold at auction last week. Wong's painting River at Dusk (2017) went for HK $37.8 million (US $4.9 million), nearly four times its high estimate, at the auction house's 20th ...
