coups de cœur

Karin Broker creates art that deals with the experience of being a woman, referencing topics such as “bad boyfriends, quirky family problems, death, and that ever-marching ticking of time called aging.” www.mcclaingallery.com

Through a deep interest in the strategies of black aesthetic tradition, notions of incompleteness, and ideas of pursuance, Nathaniel Donnett’s work, which stretches across various artistic disciplines, challenges traditional modes of linear timeline narratives and Western frameworks. Based in Houston, Texas, Donnett uses the streets of his hometown as both conceptual inspiration and provider of artistic materials. www.nathanieldonnett.com

In her paintings, Becky Soria approaches the human figure less from its familiar shapes, and much more from within, making visible its visceral emotional life. Using abstractions of language, color, and texture that allow her to capture the profound sentiments that humans have felt throughout the ages for the Earth as Goddess and Mother, Soria explores the historical evolving woman. www.archwaygallery.com/becky-soria.html

Bogdan Mihai PHOTOGRAPHER

Bogdan Mihai has created a series of images that depict natural beauty and diversity as fragile, porcelain figurines. These tiny statues are often cast aside these days, as being trite, of another time, and generally overdone. The same could be said of many of the environmental warnings that now sound hollow in our collective ears.

www.bogdanfotoart.com

Ángel Madrigal ARTIST

Memory constantly undergoes a mutation, becoming a story— a story that molds a fictitious space. Miguel Ángel Madrigal works in this fictitious space to provoke new conceptions of memory in the movement between his pieces, discovering symbiotic relationships between animals and everyday objects. The objectification of memory is realized in sculptural moments made from the everyday, a familiar place with empty spaces to be contemplated by the viewer.

www.barbaradavisgallery.com