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Throwback- Delaware Art Shows- Nicole Parker at The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington

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Oct 232025

The paintings above by Nicole Parker were part of the exhibition, Phantasia, on view earlier this year at The Delaware Contemporary.

The artist’s statement about her work from her website-

I am a representational artist specializing in narrative and symbolic paintings and hand-pulled intaglio prints. In my current body of work, I’m exploring the triangular relationship between my sense of self, my perception of what “home” means, and the physical spaces and environments that I’ve occupied throughout my life. My imagery often involves structures, spaces and objects that represent a story or dream from a specific period in my life. They are places and things that evoke strong emotions like love, loneliness, joy, or fear. I’m often unable to physically visit or return to the things I’m rendering, so in the studio I work from memory and cobbled references.

Although memory is always unreliable and changing by nature, I’m interested in the potency of my own sensory memories, and the way that light, color and the smell of the air stick in my mind. These concrete sensory ideas are always at the core of my practice.

Artist Birthdays- Suzanne Duchamp

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Oct 202025

The Solitude-Funnel, 1921, was created by Suzanne Duchamp, who was born today, October 20th in 1889.

From the Museum of Modern Art about the work-

In Solitude-Funnel (1921), one of the last works that Duchamp made in the context of Dada in Paris, she combined fields of pigment with cut-out circles of metallic foil in a composition that juxtaposes painted and collaged geometric forms with a puzzling inscription. The thin, black lines emanating from the black circle at the center resemble the funnel described in the title, or the spokes of a bicycle wheel.

Her first comprehensive solo exhibition ever is currently on view at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt until 1/11/26.

Oct 182025

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Throwback- NYC Art Shows- Sahara Longe at Timothy Taylor

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Oct 162025

Sahara Longe “Skull”, 2024, Oil on Linen

“As We Are (after Otto Friedrich)”, 2024, Oil on Linen

“Liar”, 2024, Oil on linen

This week’s throwback is to Sahara Longe‘s paintings from her 2024 exhibition at Timothy Taylor gallery in NYC, Sugar.

From the gallery about the work-

Featuring twelve vivid and haunting canvases, Longe’s second exhibition with the gallery sees the artist reconceiving various art histories to arrive at an uncanny interplay of figures, allegories, and enigmatic landscapes. The show will be accompanied by an essay by Ferren Gipson, art historian and writer based in London.

In paintings characterised by a preternatural handling of line, colour, and figuration, Longe depicts partially abstracted subjects in atmospheric environments. Working on thick grain linen with raw pigment in a distinct palette of vermillion, lilac, raw sienna, and ochre, she renders her scenes with a fluid painterly freedom that is nevertheless quiet and precise in its effect. Across her work, she recalls aspects of the Symbolist ethos, which moved between nostalgia and rupture, seeking not to capture something directly, but rather convey the sensations it produces.

In her new paintings, Longe focuses on the nude. Articulated in spare, suggestive gestures, her subjects, largely women, are pictured huddled together, embracing a lover, or striding alone. Some set their gaze on an unknown distance, others stare down the viewer, and one confronts a fish. Each seems possessed by a disquieting tension that is emphasised by a shadowy apparition lurking in many of the works. Masculine in stature, the incubus perches over a scene or cradles another figure therein. Where Longe’s previous series reflect on social dynamics, depicting parties and crowds, these paintings are more personal; the artist explains that the new works look inward rather than outward. Expressive, brushy marks bring subtle notions of agitation, dreaminess, and intimacy to otherwise minimal passages of colour.

These paintings further explore the ideas set out in Longe’s earliest work, which emerged from her study of classical portraiture at Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence; in her early canvases, Longe integrated and recontextualised themes and styles of old-master paintings. Here, her compositions draw from Secessionist painter Otto Friedrich’s nudes and Symbolist Ferdinand Hodler’s ominous portraits. They likewise reveal the influence of a recent trip to Oslo, where Longe was taken by Henrik Sorensen’s mural (1938–50) in Oslo City Hall (where the Nobel Peace Prize is selected), and the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts. Ushering these disparate sources and traditions into her singular aesthetic, Longe poses subtle questions about representation—who it serves, and what narratives it upholds—just as she underscores figuration’s expressive potential.

California Murals- Iker Muro for Wide Open Walls in Sacramento

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Oct 142025

This colorful mural by Iker Muro (aka MurOne) was created for the 2018 edition of Sacramento’s Wide Open Walls Festival.

From Wide Open Walls about the artist-

Iker Muro (MurOne) is an illustrator and graphic designer who began creating public murals in 2002. Born in Bilbao, Spain, Muro describes his work as “an acid mixture of pop culture, graffiti, illustration, and graphic design.” As a youth, he began painting on skateboards and drawing caricatures of teachers and classmates at his desk in the back of the classroom. He went on to complete his studies in graphic design and has worked in many different disciplines including graffiti, graphic design, prints, and large-scale murals.

Muro’s vibrant, bold murals strike a distinctive balance between design and art. His work draws from his extensive international travels, and he takes inspiration from whatever city he is painting in. “Travelling and discovering different cultures is a gift,” he says. “I feel lucky to make my living with what I love, I don’t know what will happen in the future, I don’t have a job and a stable life, but painting and giving life to places that don’t have any is very gratifying.”

For more of his work, also check out his Instagram.

Delaware Art Shows- Theo Platt and Steven Nederveen at Somerville Manning in Wilmington

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Oct 082025

Theo Platt, “Chrome”, Oil on canvas

Theo Platt, “Sunstream”, Oil on canvas

Theo Platt, “Sunstream”, Oil on canvas (detail)

Theo Platt, “Deep Calm”, Oil on canvas

Somerville Manning Gallery is currently showing two painting exhibitions: Theo Platt‘s textured oil paintings from his Oceans series of works (pictured above) and Steven Nederveen‘s Stillness in the Shade of Green.

Below Nederveen describes his process for the work (pictured below)-

Using a mixed media approach to image making, I combine acrylic paint and C-print photographs. By layering these elements I can etch down into the emulsion of the photograph to reveal golden hues and also build up the surface with impasto and washes of colour. The result is an image with photo sharp detail in focal areas and painterly brush marks that obscure and create space for the imagination.

Both of these exhibitions close 10/11/25.

Steven Nederveen, “Gold Hidden Within”, Mixed Media

Steven Nederveen, “Gold Hidden Within”, Mixed Media (detail)

Steven Nederveen, “Breathe In the Forest Air”, Mixed Media

Throwback- Corita Kent at MoMA and at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles

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Oct 022025

Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita)’s print I Should Like to Be Able to Love My Country and Still Love Justice, 1968, was on view at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC in June of 2024.

From the museum about the artist-

Corita Kent, also known in the Catholic Church as Sister Mary Corita, incorporated a range of references into her silkscreen prints, spanning pop culture imagery and song lyrics, biblical allusions, and literary conceits. After seeing Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans in 1962, she was inspired to embrace the language of Pop art, using bold, graphic designs to convey anti-war messages. In the 1980s Kent’s posters and ephemera were collected by PAD/D (Political Art Documentation/Distribution), a New York-based art activism group with a mission to create an archive of politically concerned art and ephemera from around the world. The materials are now part of the MoMA Archives, Library, and Research Collections.

You can currently see some of her photographic archive at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles for the exhibition Corita Kent: The Sorcery of Images, on view until 1/24/26. The show “focuses on a little seen part of Corita’s artistic practice: her archive of over fifteen thousand 35 mm slides that she and her cohorts took between 1955 and 1968 while she was a beloved teacher in the art department at Immaculate Heart College”.

As part of their press release they include this lovely quote from the artist-

“In a sense, the whole world around the artist is his source, his sorting and relating powers are his sorcery, and the one isn’t much good without the other. … Anything can be a source, even a mistake. The sorcery or the thievery is the art of relating sources into a new solution.”

Her work can also be seen in Los Angeles at the Corita Art Center. The center is free to visit on Saturdays (with appointment).

Jon Carsman’s “October Visions” from Akron Art Museum

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Oct 012025

Jon Carsman‘s painting October Visions, 1975, was on view at Akron Art Museum in 2024 as part of their permanent collection.

From the museum about the artist-

Jon Carsman painted from photographs, but though his pictures have a clear quality of precision, his intention was never to simply recreate what he had recorded on film. In his own words: “I want to give you a feel of what it was like to be there when I was.” To achieve this goal, Carsman stylized many elements of his paintings, often working toward a visual equivalent of the rhythm, movement, and energy that he found in music. He also worked most frequently with the rural scenery of Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley, where he was born and raised. As a result, images that began as still photographs take on new life through the artist’s personal experiences and memories.

Flashback- NYC Art Shows- Dread Scott at James Cohan in 2019

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Sep 262025

“Imagine a World Without America”, 2007, Screen print and acrylic on canvas

The painting above is by Brooklyn-based artist Dread Scott and was on view as part of the 2019 group exhibition Borders at James Cohan gallery in NYC.

From the press release about the work-

His 2007 work, Imagine a World Without America, calls upon the viewer to participate in the titular thought experiment and contemplate that absence. The painting de-centers the United States of America from the middle of the map that most Americans are familiar with. Scott utilizes the language of cartography to encourage the exploration of social questions, not geography. Land mass and sea are depicted but—like the world as it actually is—borders don’t exist.

The work is currently on view as part of 15, a group exhibition at Cristin Tierney gallery, celebrating the gallery’s anniversary and new location. 15 will be on view until 10/4/25.

Dread Scott has created political works throughout his career in a variety of mediums. In the video below he discusses how one of his art installations, What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag (1989), drew controversy- including denouncement by then President George H.W. Bush.

Florida Murals- Palehorse in St. Pete

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Sep 232025

Christopher Parks, aka Palehorse, is based in St. Petersburg and created the murals pictured. The first, pictured above, is of Hindu goddess Saraswati and is located on the wall behind the Floridian Social Club.

From his website–

This mural honors and celebrates the blessings of the Hindu Goddess known as Saraswati, whose image symbolizes the qualities of knowledge, music, art, speech, wisdom, & learning. Her auspicious presence & the properly tuned strings of her veena instrument remind us all to tune our hearts to divine Love, so that we may live in harmony with nature & all beings around the world.

He also created Temple of Eternal Bliss, pictured above, for the 2019 edition of SHINE Mural Festival.

From his website–

Guardian lions protecting the temple entrance represent the indestructible nature of the Self and our ability to realize universal truth and absolute freedom in any age.

Sat Chit Ananda – सच्चिदानन्द – Consciousness of truth is bliss.

For more of his work, also check out his Instagram.

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