Born in 1972 in rural Ontario, this versatile artist began to grow his creativity along with his allergy to hay. As a boy he dabbled between making elaborate hay forts in his family’s barn and drawing and using the computer graphics of the time.

Today he plays with computer graphics and installation instead of hay and produces beautiful abstracted architecture. He is an up and coming artist, just recently hitting 10,000 followers on instagram.

His drawings have an illustrative expressive quality mixed with an MC Escher approach.

His current series is called:

He turns these into reference for his series of 96″ x 42″ images, printed on archival paper and mounted on dibond. They express almost a post apocalyptic feel.

http://www.mathewborrett.com

Val Britton was born in 1977 in Livingston, NJ, and now currently resides in San francisco, CA.  For her BFA, Britton attended and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, and from there she received her MFA at the California College of the Arts.  Britton has found numerous successes through her art which has resulted in gallery shows, grants, residencies, and commissions.  Britton is known for her paper and mixed media works which represent maps, astronomy, and diagrams.  Britton was inspired by her father who was a long distance truck driver.  When he passed away early in Britton’s life, she found inspiration within the maps that her father had to use to navigate his long travels.  Britton uses numerous methods within her pieces; from staining, to collage, to printing, stitching, etc., although this may be a long process, Britton finds it meditative, and claims that her pieces blur the lines between imagination and memory.  Britton’s goal in her pieces is to create movement, since her pieces are abstract she says that this is her challenge.  Currently, Britton is trying to figure out a way to push her work to represent a tension of imposed order and pandemonium.  Britton says that the retelling of our stories of our journeys, and the reconstruction of those experiences, work together to create an understanding of the now, and so the retelling itself is in fact a journey.

Collapsible City

2012
Approximately 6′ h x 7′ w
graphite, ink, tempera, and collage on paper

Mia Pearlman was born in the USA in 1974.  Ever since graduating from Cornell University in 1996 with her BFA, Pearlman has taken the art world by storm; with publishings in numerous contemporary art books, residencies, galleries, and commissions.  Some of Pearlman’s most successful works of art were a part of her recent show of installations in the Foley Gallery on the East Side of New York.  These installations were a part of her “Slash Paper Under the Knife” show, and were open to the public from, November 19, 2014 – January11, 2015.  Pearlman creates giant paper installations on the walls which play with space and natural light.  The New Yorker states that Pearlman’s pieces were,“The best pieces, notably Mia Pearlman’s crashing waves of cut and painted paper in the windows, dig into the connection between creation and destruction.”   An example of some of her work is, INRUSH, the goal of this piece (since it sat on the corner of the gallery) was to make it seem like there was no distinction of interior and exterior space by playing with natural light.  The unique quality and factor of Mia Pearlman’s work is the fact that everything is completely hand cut.  Her installations create a whole new space, and draw the viewers away from their current situation and into a whole new world.

Photo by Bryan Tarnowski, 2014 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/heather-3.jpg

Heather Hansen is a performance artist who creates large scale charcoal drawings through her body and movement. Hansen works as a process-orientated artist where a great portion of the art is in the performance itself and not just in the finished product. Her body moves from gesture to gesture, leaving behind the evidence of movement through the long gestural lines of charcoal.

One of Hansen’s more recent exhibitions is the Value of Line at Ochi. Here she created performance pieces, as can be seen below, in front of spectators as she draws with her gestures. Hansen’s explains her work of “download[ing] my movement directly onto paper, emptying gestures from one form to another”. Much of her work relates to this process of relaying gestures on to paper, with the finished product as layered and symmetrical expressive lines. Her work relates to drawing into space with her process of creating. The space occupied by her body during creation, the movement of the gestures across the paper from one to another, and the suggestion of time and movement in the finished product, all translate to the theme of drawing into space.

http://www.ochigallery.com/heather-hansen/#lightbox[group-330]/10/

Photo by Spencer Hansen at Ochi Gallery, 2014. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/heather-12.jpg

The artwork below draws attention to an implied 3D space of an interior and exterior of the spherical shape.

Heather Hansen EGLA-1 9.26.15, 2015, charcoal on rice paper 59” X 84”. http://www.ochigallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/EGLA-19.26.15_EMAIL-605×415.jpg

Heather Hansen EG SUWON1 8.19.15, 2015 charcoal on canvas, varnish 134” X 134”. http://www.ochigallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/EGSUWON1.8.19.15_EMAIL.jpg

Post by Rebecca Lempereur, 1/24/2016

Charlotte Mann is a British artist who is known for her intricate wall drawings. She was born in 1977 in London, where she eventually became a fashion designer and stylist. This is where her drawing installations began to take form, as she combined these elaborate drawings with her fashion shows.

Each drawing is completed exclusively in black marker. The images she creates begin to take form as the delicate pen begins to cover up the blank white wall. She is able to give the illusion of space with her pen work, even though there is really only a wall there. Her use of line weight makes each artwork have its own sense of space.

John Sargent was an exceptional portrait painter born in Florence, Italy. He became the center of controversy when he exhibited his piece Madame X in the Paris Salon. He painted Madame Pierre Gautreau in a very revealing dress (for the time). He did paint other scantily dressed women but Madame X gained the most attention. Because of such criticism, he failed to make an established living as a painter in France. He relocated to England to gain a new, unbiased audience. His work quickly became popular and he became the country’s leading portrait painter. He eventually sold Madame X to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his older years he experimented with different styles such as impressionism and landscapes (with no figures). Though he created a wide body of work he is still known as one of the worlds best portrait painters.

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/12127

http://www.johnsingersargent.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Madame_X

David Spriggs is an installation artist that uses layers and paint to create his immersive works of art. He is inspired by the notion that painting can bring out certain qualities that sculpture cannot and vice versa, to which Spriggs combined the two concentrations to be able to create what he envisioned. As Sprigg states “Almost all art throughout history has been an engagement with space. It is the same exploration of space that lead to my own process. Sculpture is inherently about space and form, while in painting there has been various developments regarding the representation and understanding of space; the invention of linear perspective being of major importance.” Using hundreds and hundreds of layers of acrylic paint on thin sheets of film, he manages to create large 3D painting of abstract forms that resemble storms and contained explosions. His works span into large scale wall sized installations. One of the most interesting things I find about Spriggs work is the illusion of a 3D scupture while actually being in a 2D form.

Source: http://www.visualnews.com/2013/09/25/immersive-3d-paintings-layers-transparent-film-interview-artist-david-spriggs/

Timothy H. Lee is a former neuroscientist and uses his education to fuel his art. His installations play with the notions of problems with personal identity, social stigmas, and disorder. In Lee’s work he explores his own problems with personal disorders that he deals with on a daily basis. Lee uses large sheets of paper with painted faces of distressed individuals using watercolor and gouache. After which he carves intricate patterns into the paper that appear to be similar to the shapes of cells. the watercolor allows him to be loose with his work while the intricate cuts give him control over his work. After the painting and carving is done, he then bends the paper into twisted abstract forms that resemble waves of shapes and tortured individuals.  It’s interesting how he manages to twist a 2D painting into a 3D sculpture without losing the rawness from the original form.

Sources: http://hifructose.com/2013/10/07/timothy-h-lee-examines-psychological-disorders-in-new-installation/
http://www.sabrinaamrani.com/the-gallery/artists/Timothy-Hyunsoo%20Lee/bio

Val Britton, Deluge, Site-specific installation of hand cut and laser cut paper, ink, and thread Dimensions variable Install views from the exhibition “Passage” at Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, 2014,  Photographs by Johnna Arnold Photography.

Val Britton was born in Livingston, New Jersey. She completed her undergraduate degree at Rhode Island School of Design in B.F.A and received her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts. She currently lives and works in San Francisco, California. Britton has received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and participated in residencies and fellowships. The artist also has solo and group exhibitions throughout the country. Her recent show is at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Foley Gallery (New York), and Gallery Wendi Norris (San Francisco)

Britton works with collage on paper to create her own abstraction of maps that related back to her own personal experience and relationship with her father. She uses abstraction in her works as a way to explore, what she called “psychological and emotional spaces.” She has brought the drawing from a two-dimensional into a three-dimensional space by using collage materials and cutting into the ground paper of work as a goal to create the movement through space and emotional impact. (Britton 2000-2016)

Here are some examples of her works

Val Britton, Lines Unbroken (for E.M.) Graphite, ink, watercolor, and collage on paper
54″ h x 72″ w., 2013

Val Britton, Tracks, Graphite, ink, tempera, and collage on paper
52” h x 52” w. 2013

Val Britton, Reverberation #24 (detail) Ink, collage, and cut paper
30” h x 30” w (paper size), 2014

http://valbritton.com

Photographs by Johnna Arnold Photography.

Britton, Val. “Biography.” Statement. Http://valbritton.com, n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2016