BLIND ART

Not really…but these paintings do incorporate Braille. I have often wondered how the blind enjoy art since gallery’s & museums aren’t into letting you actually touch the pieces.

Underneath Roy Nachum’s oil paintings are tiny raised gesso pixels on the surface of his canvases that he sculpts with a pallet knife. These pixels mimics Braille’s system of raised cells in rectangular columns, embedded in them are written messages, poems or quotes which he says offers the blind a way into his art. 

BLURRY SUMMER PAINTINGS MAKE YOU FEEL THE HEAT

With the constant 90+ degrees going on here in Philly, I can definitely get with these oil paintings by South African based artist, Philip Barlow.

His paintings replicate a perfect summer day scenerio…once the heat index rises you can feel like you’re seeing through his brush. The waves of heat blurring up images, your vision feeling hazy.

*images via My Modern Met

MONICA COOK’s SEEDED AND SOILED

I’m taking a look back at artist, Monica Cook’s ‘Seeded and Soiled’ - aseries of paintings in which women share the spotlight with food. Due to a more obvious observation it’s a collection of paintings that I’ve heard referred to as ‘Grotesque Food Porn’.

I find some of the images disturbingly seductive, case in point, the
painting entitled “Succi” (my favorite by the way) - a mass entanglement of nude bodies, fruits, and tentacles… it gives me all the emotions of being trapped in a David Lynch movie, as if I’d been felt up, proceeding a car accident – it’s disorienting, strangely erotic in that I can’t stop wondering just who is consuming what, or if it’s the other way around.

Alyssa Monk

Alyssa’s paintings are deceiving; at first glance you think them intimate portraits and on further examination find them to be paintings.  Beautifully luscious and captivating, her subjects are sensual. I find their trapped in canvas look strangely able to make you feel as if you were hanging between this reality and another.