Emily Fromm’s Urban Landscapes Shown in ‘NO VACANCY’

Taking influence from classic American signage and comic art, Emily Fromm crafts bustling scenes taken from corners across Western cities. In an upcoming show at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, “NO VACANCY,” she offers a group of works that show the “over-the-top yet seedy aesthetic of the American West.” The show kicks off Jan. 11 and runs through Feb. 23.

The gallery adds this: “The show will also contain several paintings created for a public art project in conjunction with the San Francisco Arts Commission for San Francisco International Airport, to be installed in early 2020,” the gallery says. “These paintings will ultimately be adapted into ceramic tile mosaic to create large-scale wall-mounted vignettes of Fromm’s San Francisco-centric scenes, which will be installed in the redeveloped Terminal One upon its opening. The paintings will be available to view at 111 Minna, and some of the earlier concept paintings will be available for purchase.”

See more images from the show below.

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Emily Fromm, illustration, painting

painting, Shozy

January 28, 2020

Shozy's illusionary murals use subtle techniques that enhance the life of a work. For instance, with the pieces above, packing bikes into a “hole” in the structure, uses reflective chrome paint that will change hues with the sky of the day.

Kent Monkman’s Paintings Challenge Representations of Native Americans in Western Art

Kent Monkman, painting

July 27, 2016

Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry whose subversive and oftentimes controversial paintings explore issues concerning the exploitation and misrepresentations of the First Nations in North America. His eclectic mash-up of art historical references, role reversals and revised narratives challenges the Western art canon head on -- from the romantic landscape paintings of Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt to the cubist works of Pablo Picasso. Monkman has exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, and is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Paul Reid Revives Greek Mythology in Paintings

Greek mythology, painting, Paul Reid

September 15, 2018

The figurative works of Paul Reid revive the world of ancient Greek mythology, yet render new scenes through the artist's contemporary vantage point. Though Reid's education and understanding of form owes much to the masters of yesterday, his own cinematic style comes through in each of these scenes, feeling at once elegant and casual.

Paco Pomet’s Paintings Subvert Vintage Sources

Paco Pomet, painting, surrealism

April 4, 2019

Paco Pomet’s paintings at first resemble the vintage photographs he sources. Yet as the viewer absorbs the works, Pomet’s reality-distorting touches emerge. The artist’s current show at Galleri Benoni, titled “No Places,” offers his latest, surreal paintings. The show runs through May 10 at the gallery.

Emily Fromm’s Urban Landscapes Shown in ‘NO VACANCY’

The Riveting Murals of Shozy

Kent Monkman’s Paintings Challenge Representations of Native Americans in Western Art

Paul Reid Revives Greek Mythology in Paintings

Paco Pomet’s Paintings Subvert Vintage Sources

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