Jess Anders
Our Life is Jack-Knifings, 2020
3 ¾ ft x 1 ft
Oil on Canvas
Title of the painting was taken from the first line of poem below:
KATERINA GOGOU
From Now Let’s See What You’re Going to Do: Poems 1978-2002
translated by Angelos Sakkis
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Our life is jack-knifngs in dirty dead-end streets
rotten teeth faded slogans
a basso backstage basement smells of piss and antiseptic and rotten sperm Torn-up posters
Upanddown Upanddown Patission
Our life is Patission Street
The detergent that won’t pollute the sea and Mitropanos* sang his way into our life but he’s been swallowed by Dexameni* like all the expensive dames
We stay with it
A craven life we travel always the same route
Humiliation-loneliness-despair And back
O K We’re not crying We’ve grown up Only when it rains
we secretly suck our thumb. And we smoke. Our life is pointless panting at pre-programmed strikes
stooges and patrol cars.
That’s why I’m telling you.
Next time they’ll let us have it we shouldn’t run. We should hold our line.
Let’s not sell our asses so cheap, man. Don’t. It’s raining. Gimme a smoke.
Painting in the place where you eat and sleep is not ideal in order to keep paint and rags (sealed in a bucket) away from (roommates) cat’s I’ve tucked them halfway into this (not closet) for the time being So my studio currently is my apartment located in North Philadelphia. And when the weather is decent I’m able to paint on the roof.
Self Portrait of the artist Jessica Anderson Dec. 2020
Instagram:@tamyans
Email: jessicaanderson02326@gmail.com
TAYLOR BROWN
There are so many artists today, like millions. So what do I have to say in all of that? For a while I used to just make up meanings to paintings-- like, because I am half black, I would try and make race a huge motivator for my work, or because I am a woman, I had to speak up against women's rights. Not that I don’t care about that, I do, but I think that this year has made me realize that I am very interested in the boring aspects of life Like when you are taking a walk, and take a picture of something, and decide to paint it later. What does the painting say about how you felt during that walk. Or they way someone stages a still life, what makes them feel like the way they staged the objects, beautiful? My intent is to try and create a feeling in someone (doesn’t everyone? haha), I believe that movement in art has a lot to do with that feeling. For example, I had a professor, who used to paint these hyper realistic paintings It was like his brain was a printer, and that is how he taught. All of our work had to look exactly like the photograph. It was very still and you can even tell by the work I created how I felt about it. However, when you look at a painting and you see this person's brush strokes reaching all around the canvas, you can tell that the artist was very literally moved by what they were doing
ARTIST/PAINTER taymobr.com
Fiona
to Grandma's"
Acrylic on Raw Canvas
x 48"
2020 Acrylic on Raw Canvas
x 48"
Martinez-Krippner Instagram: @Fiona_MartinezKrippner_Art "Going
2020
36"
"Oklahoma"
36"
"Almost Home (Our Favorite Billboard)",
2020 Acrylic on Raw Canvas
36" x 48"
Sketches These paintings were made from memory, so brainstorming and sketching helped me to plan out my images.
SARAH ROWLEY
Social Media: Instagram: @sarahrowleyart
September 2020
October
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 20 in
2020
Acrylic on canvas 24 x 20 in
November
2020
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 20 in
Initial Sketches
These are colored pencil sketches of the paintings above. This helps me to get familiar with the shapes and objects in the painting
“Sugar vs. Spice”
Emily Scarpato, 30” x 40”, oil paint and mixed media on canvas
2020
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
- Edgar Allan Poe
Inspiration for creating “Sugar vs. Spice” painting:
“North American Ride”
Emily
2020
and mixed media on paper
Emily Scarpato
instagram: @scarpato.art
email: emilyscarpato@gmail.com
Scarpato, 5.5” x 8.5”, gouache
chicken noodle soup may be for the soul, but instant ramen is for everything else
Jamie Murphy Soika
I watched my entire life pass Me by in a bowl of instant ramen Expanding and contracting Noodles like Styrofoam Fake vegetables look real if you squint Hard enough what are they even made out of?
I am sitting on Leo’s couch when he tells me that you catch feelings like you catch a cold, that the butterflies threatening to fly
out of your stomach and up your esophagus is just a symptom, a side effect of beginning to love someone too much.
Other side effects, he told me wisely, included, but were not limited to: sweaty palms, extended eye contact, flushed cheeks, and feeling like you were dying
Which explained why, when I first saw you, I wanted
To get hit by a truck, to French kiss the pavement, To hear the cacophony of horns and be buried six feet under, safe from your stare and my own patchwork heart, the stitching resembling an amateur’s handiwork
But you took my heart and stitched it up with a surgeon’s precision
Making sure to tread carefully and trace your steps backwards and backstitch, securing your place so thoroughly that life without you seemed impossible, a mystery painted in shades of blue so deep it was a wonder I had ever climbed out of that abyss
I developed a new theory; that falling in love Was like getting bitten by a radioactive spider, complete With spide-y senses and spider webs able to catch me
If I ever fell Life was in technicolor, brighter
than before, and suddenly, I was superhuman.
But I never got around to watching The Amazing Spider Man sequel, Never got my upside down kiss, And I never knew Gwen Stacy died, Falling from a skyscraper Peter Parker’s webs just Couldn’t get to fast enough.
My mom always said that the best way To cure a cold was to eat chicken noodle soup So I look in my pantry, come up short, and boil Instant ramen Watch the noodles expand into Interlaced webs, taste nothing, walk back to my tv
And watch Gwen Stacy fall again and again and again
Friday Night 30” x 30” oil on canvas, 2020
The Reader in Quarantine
30” x 40”
Oil on canvas
2020
Jamie Murphy Soika is a painter and writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work explores time, human connection, and the figure in space.
Instagram: @jamiesoika
Email: jamie.murphysoika@gmail.com
MeMe, digital, 2020
MuMu(Diptych), 36” x 36”, oil, 2020
SculpturePainting, 18” x 24”, acrylic, 2020
InteruptedbyCOVID, 16” H x 10” W, clay, 2020
Instagram: @mayleesartwork
Email: mayleewolf.art@gmail.com
Follow Me instagram: @renuue renyuezhang@squarespace.com renyue0518@gmail.com LUNA ZHANG upside down Acrylic on canvas
Mongata Painting
Oil on canvas
Island
Gouache
on paper
Mongata Painting
Oil on canvas
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THROUGH A CHILD’S EYES”
