#on stellar rays

Athanasios Argianas, “Swimmer’s Arms Are Oars” (Striated vrs), 2017, 

Pigmented resin, Alabaster,

Left 21 x 14-12 inches, Right 17 12 x 14 inches, 

Zipora Fried at On Stellar Rays

Keegan Monaghan: Artist of Intellectual Horrors

An example of surrealism art. Image: Shutterstock   Keegan Monaghan is a 29-year-old from Chicago who knows his hometown history. His painting style is strongly borrowed from the Chicago Imagists, those painters from the 1960s who were known for grotesqueries and surrealism (and who inspired the art of MAD Magazine). Monaghan has brought their brand of weighted art forward into the Millennial…

John Houck - Coordinate System #3 (2015) (via)

Ryan Mrozowski at On Stellar Rays

Ryan Mrozowski has double vision. Of course we all do, give or take the occasional accident victim or pirate, but most of the time we treat our vision as a static whole and overlook the dynamic fusion of separate views that makes it possible. But the same miraculous paradox — the state that’s really a relationship, the two somehow acting as one — powers intimacy, communication, and consciousness itself, and in his first solo show at On Stellar Rays, Mrozowski illuminates all these mystic doubles at once with an elegantly direct attack on their basic mechanism.

Titles like ‘Spring Shadow’ or ‘Noon Ashes’ evoke places and moods beyond the everyday in Julia Bland’s show of attractive, fabric-based constructions. Here, ‘Lines from Memory’ suggests a series of portals constructed from an arrangement of dyed textile and lattices. (At On Stellar Rays on the Lower East Side through Oct 25th). Julia Bland, Lines from Memory, silk, linen, wool, oil paint, and dye, 88 ½ x 83 inches, 2015.