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Indepth Arts News: "Muses: New Works by Tin, Kendra Binney and Jeremiah Ketner" 2009-02-07 until 2009-02-28 Black Maria Los Angeles, CA, USA United States of America
Tin, based in Maine, has exploded onto the art scene. He works in pastels and oil. Tin's work is beautifully rendered and elicits a sensual quality that is truly unique. The figures in his work are damaged, both physically and emotionally. Though damaged, Tin's work combines eroticism with steampunk detailing. This is Tin's second exhibition at Black Maria.
Kendra Binney - Through scenes of dripping landscapes and insecure, vulnerable characters, she illustrates a world draped in memories, remorse, and fragile realities. Seen through pastel washes and shiny candy coatings of resins, her works evoke both nostalgia and contempt. They are at once gentle and cruel, sweet and unsettling. Kendra currently lives in Portland Oregon. She spends her days alone in a small studio with no windows. Here she paints, daydreams, and paints some more.
Jeremiah Ketner paints a world to which fairytales long to belong. With candy-floss landscapes and vivid imaginary images, his work enraptures and transports one into the world ethereal and the life celestial. He has the inimitable ability to transform the natural into the sublime, terra firma into terra ephemera, the defined figure into the delicate, exquisite figurative. Renowned throughout the US and internationally, Ketner attributes his influence to Art Nouveau, Japanese Aesthetics and Magna. He resides and creates from his home and studio in Chicago, IL, USA.
Crystal Wall Lancaster on The Project Wall
Crystal Wall Lancaster was born in Etobicoke, Ontario and currently works as an illustrator in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. She studied traditional animation and has created artwork through various mediums throughout the years. Currently she is obsessed with painting delicate, thin-necked beauties with stories behind their eyes. Color and individual personality is what drives this series of paintings entitled, "A Day in the Life of..." Using fairly basic and flat color schemes paired with a bit of odd beauty, Crystal is trying to force the viewer to fall into the lap of each long necked maiden simply through a look, an expression. All pieces were painted with Acrylic paint.
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"Muses" runs from 7 February - 28 February 2009 at Black Maria Gallery in Los Angeles. "Muses" features new works by Tin, Kendra Binney and Jeremiah Ketner. The artists are exploring the notion of the muse in contemporary visual art. Their works are quite distinctive from one another and reference varying art movements. What brings them together is that they all explore the notion of the muse, investigating how and why a muse inspires.
