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Throwback Thursday: Les Graphiquants

Cuir à Paris 

For this week’s Women We Love Wednesday, we highlight Fanny Eaton

Fanny Eaton was a black Victorian Londoner and, for some time, painter’s model. Born in Jamaica in 1835, Eaton was the daughter of an ex-slave and, it is suspected, a white slave owner. She came to London in the 1840s and began modelling in her twenties. It has been discovered that she was working as a regular portrait model at the Royal Academy, which is potentially where she caught the attention of the many renowned painters of the era she sat for. - AnOther Magazine

Textile Tuesday

For this week’s Man Crush Monday, we highlight Rodney McMillan,

Rodney McMillian is known for his installations comprised of discarded mattresses, filing cabinets, wood paneling, chairs, bookshelves, and other found materials that suggest the weight of history. By using old objects, he recreates his own version of historic moments—often with overt references to domestic life, the education system, the civil government, and race relations. His hope is to remind his viewers of opinions or accounts that are in the minority or have been completely forgotten. Another recurring motif in his work is the amorphous cloth shape, taking the form of either stuffed appendages or large swaths. McMillian has even been known to sell his canvases by the square foot. - via Artsy

Art Fan Friday: Paula Crown

Throwback Thursday: Antonio Lopez

Tina Chow, Paris, 1974

Two Instamatic photographs, 3.5" x 4.5" each. 

For this week’s Women We Love Wednesday, we highlight Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown is a contemporary British painter and her work has been considered some of the most influential of her generation. Brown was born in London, England in 1969 and studied at the Slade School of Art, becoming influenced by the work of early Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell. 

“Brown clearly revels in the sheer handling of paint and, through its many, reworked layers, has a restless virility. The body remains central and fleshy forms slowly reveal themselves out of the many layers. There’s a strong sense of narrative too, although the precise subject often remains elusive, more a memory of her original inspiration.” - Wallpaper

For this week’s Man Crush Monday, ESP PR highlights Matt Mignanelli, 

Using acrylic and enamel paints, artist Matt Mignanelli freehandedly creates graphic, abstract paintings that transform upon every glance. Physically moving around a black-on-black painting of a cubic grid will reveal layers of optical illusions, while simply blinking when standing in front of a canvas covered in a complex navy-and-white pattern tricks the eye into seeing an oscillating, three-dimensional piece of art. Each piece of Mignanelli's work depicts polygons of various shapes and sizes (with only the slightest occasional curve), yet they also always finds their roots in reality—most frequently architecture and light. -- Interview Magazine

Art Fan Friday Daphne Corregan

Throwback Thursday: Erich Buchholz 

Dokumentation b-3.

situationen 60 galerie (portfolio w/1 work and several other objects) 

Berlin

For this week’s Women We Love, ESP PR highlights Mira Dancy

Taking a feminist approach, Mira Dancy’s work centers around the female nude. She works primarily on canvas, but has also branched out into wall painting, neon light pieces, projected images, and even shower curtains. Her interest in painting traces back to college, where Dancy was introduced to the medium in classes taught by Amy Sillman and Elizabeth Murray, whose own art and feminist ethos laid the ground for her vision. Dancy often works on a large-scale, filling her canvases with expansive nudes rendered in a vibrant array of colors and with calligraphic, sweeping, sinuous lines. Unlike the women who appear in paintings (often done by men) throughout art history, her nudes are imbued with a sense of strength and self-possession, in addition to a knowingly exaggerated sex appeal. -- Artsy

Textile Tuesday: Frank Horvat

New York

This week’s Man Crush Monday,  ESP PR highlights László Moholy-Nagy,

László Moholy-Nagy, born in 1895 in Borsód, Austria-Hungary, believed in the potential of art as a vehicle for social transformation, working hand in hand with technology for the betterment of humanity. A multifaceted artist, educator, and prolific writer, Moholy-Nagy experimented across mediums, moving fluidly between the fine and applied arts, pursuing his quest to illuminate the interrelatedness of life, art, and technology. Among his radical innovations were his experiments with cameraless photographs (which he dubbed “photograms”); unconventional use of industrial materials in painting and sculpture; experiments with light, transparency, space, and motion across mediums; and his work at the forefront of abstraction. -- Guggenheim

‘Non-Objective Painting’ is currently on vie at the Guggenheim until July 10, 2016.