Jim Houser

FEVER: Acrylic Painting on Panel, Contemporary, 21st Century, 5.5x5.5

2017

This piece titled "HER" is an original artwork by Jim Houser and is made of acrylic on panel. This piece measures approximately 17”h x 17”w and ships in the pictured manipulated fram...

"BUT WHEN" is an original acrylic on panel work by Jim Houser measuring 12in x 12in. ABOUT // Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently...

"DROPS" is an original acrylic on canvas by Jim Houser measuring 8in x 8in. ABOUT // Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides....

"GHST" is an original acrylic work on panel by Jim Houser measuring 10in x 10in. ABOUT // Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently res...

Original Modernist / Minimalist Acrylic Painting on Italian Pintura Canvas / MDF Panel *READY FOR DISPLAY - This Artwork is Needs No Frame! - The Artwork "Floats" .650 Inches away...

Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else? Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north. An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made. Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent. Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper...

Tom Martinelli works with simple rounded shapes, fields of color and the character of a painted edge. Using stencils, paint rollers and spray paint he ...

Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...