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Juxtapoz Magazine – Jocelyn Hobbie’s New Paintings and Works on Paper @ Fredericks & Freiser, NYC

Fredericks & Freiser is happy to announce an exhibition of new paintings and performs on paper by Jocelyn Hobbie. Since the mid-90s, Hobbie has painted the female determine with a heightened naturalism and an enhanced degree of saturated colour that reveals an uneasy relationship to realism and firmly roots these placing paintings in the age of submit abstraction.

For this exhibition, Hobbie will exhibit paintings on canvas and paper concluded in excess of the past handful of yrs. Echoing models as divergent as the expressive figuration of New Objectivity and the abundant, layered patterning of Ukiyo-e, Hobbie hones a formal type in which neoclassical figures with lambent or emotionally obscure expressions are depicted amid boldly graphic garments and vivid floral settings. Hobbie’s seamless, polished surfaces and dynamic compositions meld her subjects amid pictorial environments brimming with painterly precision. The canvases and operates on paper have the elemental and thematic

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Juxtapoz Magazine – Loie Hollowell: Tick Tock Belly Clock @ Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis

“It starts with trying… to make these sexual graphic cartoony sketches in my notebook, then abstracting that and producing it much more geometric, much more summary,” Loie Hollowell told Juxtapoz a handful of decades back. “I don’t know, I’m not an art historian, and I are unable to give a long description of what the history of abstraction is, but for me, these performs are portraits of particular ordeals.” That is a revealing explanation from the artist, that even in these paintings that she finalizes, the overall body elements and sexuality are not some form of Magic Eye situation. These designs turn out to be more and much more obvious that there is anything physical, practically direct in their representation.

The increasing star of modern day artwork, with representation by the hallowed Rate Gallery and exhibitions all over the planet, turns to drawing in Tick Tock Tummy Clock at the

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Juxtapoz Magazine – Jeremy Olson “This Time of Monsters” @ Unit London

“The aged globe is dying and the new earth struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” – Antonio Gramsci

Jeremy Olson’s latest solo exhibition with Unit London sites his acquainted forged of otherworldly creatures at the centre of an apocalyptic globe. this time of monsters draws its title from Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci’s reflections on interregnum. Interregnum, an historic Roman time period, signifies a period of very long changeover concerning historic levels. Olson situates his exhibition in this state of in-betweenness, commenting on our present time period of societal, political, economic and environmental uncertainty. During these ideas of catastrophe and collapse, however, Olson’s exhibition never extinguishes a sense of hope and humour. Even with appearances, these monsters are depicted as kind and nurturing, perplexed and introspective and, often, they just want to celebration.

Olson has been attracted to the strategy of monsters since childhood, an

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