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20/09/2024

Yana Lande – Transcendent Heavens

Opening Reception: September 19, 3 PMExhibition Dates: September 19 - October 19Location: MIT FX350 Brookline St., Building WW15-182, Cambridge, MA 02139Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 10 AM - 4 PMMIT's FX is proud to present Transcendent Heavens, the latest series by New York-basedartist Yana Lande. I...

31/08/2024

John Atkinson Grimshaw, Reflections on the Thames, Westminster (detail), 1880, oil on canvas

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30/08/2024

William Logsdail, "The Gates of the Khalifa," 1887.⠀

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29/08/2024

"one of the greats"

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28/08/2024

"Painting is a never-ending journey where there is always a challenge, a learning experience, and inspiration to Images. I like to use a palette knife and oil paints in my paintings. My paintings are inspired by the colors and texture seen in my travels." - Alena Shymchonak

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27/08/2024

Oil Painting: “The Skateboard” by RonFrancis.

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26/08/2024

"Beijing-based artist Zhiyong Jing creates miniature paintings that make a big impression. Working predominantly on small canvases, he conjures up evocative, cinematic scenes that he describes as 'dreams, bodies and absurd realities.' Each painting invites narrative interpretation—a man plummets through the air without a parachute; a hitchhiker hails a passing car in an otherwise empty mountainscape; a tiny figure watches as a swing set burns—simultaneously intriguing, beguiling and unsettling the viewer."

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25/08/2024

Sean Connery🙌

Connery was born Thomas Sean Connery on August 25, 1930, in Fountainbridge, Scotland.
In the 1950s, Sean Connery was cast in numerous U.K. films and television programs. In the early '60s, he landed the lead role of James Bond in Dr. No, continuing the role in followups like Goldfinger and Thunderball while gaining massive popularity. He worked regularly in film thereafter, and in 1988 won an Academy Award in the category of supporting actor for The Untouchables. Connery later starred in the adventure films Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, before retiring from acting.

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24/08/2024

Acrylic Painting: “Balance” by Hideo Tanaka👏

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23/08/2024

Watercolor Paintings by Thierry Duval😍

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22/08/2024

Acrylic and Oil Paintings by Keita Morimoto💙

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20/08/2024

Lorenzo Quinn is an Italian sculptor renowned for his powerful and emotive artworks. His art installation titled “Support” features two colossal hands rising from the Grand Canal in Venice, supporting the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. The installation, unveiled during the 2017 Venice Biennale, serves as a poignant commentary on the impact of climate change and rising sea levels. The hands, crafted with meticulous detail, symbolize both the potential for destruction and the urgent need for humanity to come together to address environmental challenges. Quinn’s “Support” transcends traditional artistic boundaries, conveying a profound message about the interconnectedness between human actions and the preservation of our planet.

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19/08/2024

André Schulze is both an artist and a painting conservator who gives old, often discarded paintings a new lease on life through his unique blend of restoration and creative alteration. Educated in fine arts at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, Schulze hunts for these vintage canvases in antique shops, thrift stores, or receives them from collectors. Before applying his contemporary artistic touch, complete with subtle humor and meticulous attention to detail, he painstakingly restores these frequently damaged works. Schulze views his work as offering a second life to these forgotten artworks, merging past and present in each piece. In this series he adds a pixelated effect to traditional still life imagery creating a juxtaposition between old and new.

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18/08/2024

Fritz Scholder, a pivotal figure in 20th-century American art, is best known for his profound and often provocative depictions of Native American life and identity. Part Native American himself, Scholder challenged the romanticized, stereotypical portrayals of Indigenous peoples prevalent in American art, offering instead a raw, unvarnished perspective that blended elements of pop art, expressionism, and surrealism. His work from the late 1960s onwards broke new ground by portraying Native Americans with a complexity and honesty that had rarely been seen before. Scholder’s paintings often featured vibrant colors and dynamic compositions, infusing traditional themes with contemporary relevance and stirring public dialogue about Native American history and representation. Through his influential teaching and prolific output, Scholder played a crucial role in inspiring a generation of Native American artists and reshaping American art’s landscape. His legacy is celebrated for its daring challenge to the status quo and its lasting impact on the perception and portrayal of Indigenous cultures in art.

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17/08/2024

Philippe Charles Jacquet, a former architect turned painter, intricately combines reality and imagination in his landscape compositions, heavily influenced by the Brittany coasts and estuaries. Despite his architectural background, evident in his symmetrical and geometric landscapes, Jacquet infuses his works with rich colors and diverse surfaces, ranging from glass-like water to weathered hulls of barges, creating a surreal and idealized quality. His unique painting technique, utilizing gloss paint on plywood, allows for remarkably smooth surfaces, with textures achieved through transparent layers or razor blade manipulation. Particularly meticulous in rendering houses within his landscapes, Jacquet constructs them separately before integrating them into the backdrop, underscoring a human presence within his expansive, dream-like settings. Currently based in Pantin, near Paris, Jacquet has exhibited widely in France and earned recognition, including winning first prize at the Plastic Arts Exhibition at Melun. M Galerie is proud to introduce Philippe Charles Jacquet’s work to the American market.

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16/08/2024

Kenjiro Okazaki, born in 1955 in Tokyo, is a versatile Japanese artist, architect, and theorist known for his diverse body of work that includes painting, sculpture, robotics, costume and set design, and architecture. His work, which examines themes of time, space, and human experience through a postmodern lens, draws inspiration from the likes of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Paul Klee, and John Cage. In addition to creating art, Okazaki is a respected critic and author, with notable publications such as “Renaissance: Condition of Experience” and “Abstract Art as Impact: Analysis of Modern Art,” the latter earning him the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2019. His contributions over a four-decade career have established him as a significant figure in both the Japanese and international art scenes.

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15/08/2024

Ben Affleck🙌

Ben Affleck is an actor and screenwriter whose big break came with a role in the Academy Award-winning Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with his childhood friend Matt Damon. In 1998, he starred in the successful blockbuster Armageddon and landed a part in the Academy Award-winning film Shakespeare in Love.

Having starred in a wide array of additional projects, Affleck then directed and co-wrote the acclaimed 2007 film Gone Baby Gone. In 2012, he directed, co-produced and starred in the film Argo, which earned him a Golden Globe for best director and the 2013 Oscar for Best Picture. He returned to acting in the thriller Gone Girl (2014) and stepped into the role of the Dark Knight in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

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14/08/2024

Halle Berry🙌

Halle Maria Berry was born on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Halle Berry is an acclaimed actress and former beauty queen. For her performance in Monster's Ball in 2001, she became the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for best actress. She has also enjoyed prominent roles in Jungle Fever (1991), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, Swordfish (2001), Die Another Day (2002), Gothika (2003), Cloud Atlas (2012) and Kidnap (2017).

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