Marcus Manganni

Acrylic Collaboration with Amber Ibarreche, Pins with X Print

2019

VANDYKE is a site specific tape installation by Dustin Hedrick. This work explores portraiture by enveloping the viewer in vast fields of pattern & texture. Lines unfold like cobwebs...

A cello is held up between the legs of its accompanying musician in a snowy landscape. Snow has collected on the protruding bits of Cello and on the tops of the musician's knees. Though we can't see the face of the musician, we see their bare arms, folding upwards, as if they have buried their face in their hands. -- Building on her previous show, Main Squeeze, which featured bodies pressing through the grid of lawn chairs, in “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings...

"Mirror" is a site specific installation that was exhibited in the show "Dialects of Place(s) by Land Report Collective at COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN. In this piece, Jobe uses industrial materials such as insulation foam, concrete, window screen, and graphite tracing paper to create a patterned structure that protrudes from the corner and carries the viewer's eye upward. At the bottom of the piece, we see delicately balanced concrete on top of pale blue insulation foam. The patterned concrete and insulation foam carries the viewer's eye upwards towards another pop of blue on top of the aluminum window screen frame. The screen gives the viewer a window in which to look through the piece. On one side, this mesh frames the graphite paper and on the other side the viewer can see the patterned concrete and insulation foam. Review from "The Rib" about "Mirror" One of the more surprising works here is Nashville-based Brian Jobe...

"Cobwebs & Catacombs" is a site specific tape installation by Dustin Hedrick. This work explores portraiture by enveloping the viewer in vast fields of pattern & texture. Lines unfol...

Excerpt from a review by art critic Joe Nolan: "In these works, Aldrich paints on surfaces that have been covered in uniform vertical strips of caulk. The textures don’t play into the subjects of these paintings so much as create a consistent 3D pattern across the whole surface of a wood panel covered with canvas. Two of the most interesting works in this style give us graphic renderings of domestic interiors laid out in blocks of color and elemental shapes. 'Kitchen Sink' and 'Ironing' depict counters, faucets and ironing boards through a distorted perspective that’s unnervingly deep and narrow, vertiginous and claustrophobic. The caulk brings lots of texture to these works, and Aldrich’s paint appears to be applied in chromatic washes of yellow, pink and blue that seem serene given their off-kilter surroundings. In fact, Aldrich uses the repeating vertical textures to create vividly colored lenticular illusions in these works, which only reveal themselves as viewers move past the paintings. In addition to their formal qualities and their narrative content, Aldrich’s works also comment on traditional gender roles in Western society. Her narrative portraits are mostly inspired by the covers of Nancy Drew novels. Drew, the “girl detective” who first appeared in print as a female counterpart to the Hardy Boys...

In the series of paintings titled “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints. The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings of young women based on Nancy Drew...

"One American Dollar - Silver Nr. 5", 2023, 80 x 120 x 14 cm, is a unique mixed media work by German pop artist Devin Miles. The artist works like Wahol with a hand screenprint. The...

Backyard House Wren by Leo E. Osborne Abstract Nature Wall Relief, Unique Carved Mixed Media, primarily wood. 30x16x10" wren with copper leaves on wood ...

Among the Stones by Leo E. Osborne Abstract Nature Wall Relief, best suited for interior placement Carved Canada Goose and Rocks - Unique Carved Mixed...

Always Hungry by Leo E. Osborne Abstract Nature Wall Relief, Unique Carved Mixed Media (primarily wood) 16x37x6" Chickadees on wood carved to appear like granite with shadow of adult...

Black Rock Creek by Leo E. Osborne Abstract Nature Wall Relief, Unique Carved Mixed Media (primarily wood) 20x36x6" nuthatch on wood carved to appear like g...

Saguaro Cavern by Leo E. Osborne Abstract Nature Wall Relief, Unique Carved Wood 25x17" (mixed media carved and painted to appear like the cactus) A little desert owl peeks out of it...