Eunjeong Choi’s Cascading Colors Create Cityscapes

Eunjeong Choi’s wild, illusionary oil paintings create cityscapes with kaleidoscopic forms. In a manner that can be likened to Maya Hayuk and Jen Stark, Choi creates both neat and muddied reflections on color, cascading in two and three dimensions. The painter-installation artist is currently based in Seoul, South Korea.

She recently contributed to the Sehwa Museum of Art exhibition “Phantom City.” As the display was “designed to offer the opportunity to observe the illusions of the light and colors and life of reality beyond the view us living in modern cities paradoxically,” Choi’s work was more than appropriate for the exhibition.

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Eunjeong Choi, oil painting, painting

Dan Lydersen, oil painting, surrealism

November 15, 2016

Though several of Dan Lydersen’s oil paintings are contemporary in content, the engine that fuels these works consists of timeless bouts with spirituality, nature, and materiality. There's a surreal quality some; a somber realism in others. Yet, in each piece, Lydersen’s knack for evoking introspection carries. The backdrops move between suburbia, rural America, and more scenic, wild settings in which the ordinary Western experience (like kids on a bounce house) is extracted and dispatched.

Painter Carlo Alberto Rastelli’s Off-Kilter, Intimate Portraits

Carlo Alberto Rastelli, painting, Pop Surrealism

May 14, 2018

Carlo Alberto Rastelli, a painter who lives work works in Milan, blends an off-kilter palette and perspective with unexpected textures to explore humanity and art history. His works can feel at once intimate and otherworldly in how they approach depth and form. The painter attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Riga.

Preview: Zio Ziegler’s “Intuitivism” at LeQuiVive Gallery

LeQuiVive Gallery, painting, street art, Zio Ziegler

November 14, 2014

San Francisco-based artist Zio Ziegler's work requires two levels of the viewer's attention. There are the large figures almost always present in his canvases, drawings and murals — Cubist-inspired bodies whose heads and limbs appear splayed out the surface. Ziegler stitches together these characters with intricate, collage-like patterns that often evoke indigenous, South American folk art forms. The repeating patterns within each figure inform our understand of the larger whole. His solo show "Intuitivism" opens tomorrow, November 15, at LeQuiVive Gallery in Oakland. Earlier this week, the artist painted a large-scale mural on the corner of 17th St. and Webster St. Take a look at some photos of the mural as well as a preview of the exhibition below.

Li Wentao’s Cryptic Paintings of Contemplative Women

Li Wentao, painting, portrait

June 30, 2014

Chinese artist Li Wentao’s work is theatrical. It’s not just way the artist stages the lone character, a young, fragile woman, always barefoot, always in some state of undress. Clearly something’s on her mind. It’s the way we identify with her, just as we identify with, become invested in, a play’s protagonist. It’s easy to conflate the artist and subject. The woman looks out a window, off to the side, at the viewer. We can’t describe, much less identify, her expression. Pensive, wary, frightened? Or does she share some quiet secret, some personal conspiracy? In any event, she doesn’t wear her face-the-world face. We don’t know her story but we want to. We want to keep looking at the work, hoping for some resolution of whatever situation she’s in.

Eunjeong Choi’s Cascading Colors Create Cityscapes

Dan Lydersen’s Oil Paintings Twist the Ordinary

Painter Carlo Alberto Rastelli’s Off-Kilter, Intimate Portraits

Preview: Zio Ziegler’s “Intuitivism” at LeQuiVive Gallery

Li Wentao’s Cryptic Paintings of Contemplative Women

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