Marcus Leslie Singleton (US)
Marcus Leslie Singleton is a self-taught artist best known for his distinctive figurative paintings and pointed yet subtle observations. Singleton’s practice offers implicit critiques of contemporary social and political issues. Simultaneously, his work invites viewers to examine the dialogue around social constructs, culture, and spirituality. His presentation of multiple timelines both highlight and celebrate multiplicity in society and detail the parallel realities of joy and hardship in a figurative language. Using spontaneity, scale, and expressive placement of colour, Singleton’s paintings offer a jovial perspective that is both poignant and bold.
Marcus Leslie Singleton (b. 1990, Seattle; US) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York (US). He graduated from the Design of Textile & Fashion programme at the Seattle Art Institute (Seattle; US) in 2012. The artist’s recent solo exhibitions include: Mitchell Innes-Nash (New York City; US), Jupiter Miami (Miami; US), Soiled Journal Gallery (New York City; US), Casa Sant Ana (Ciudad de Panamá; PA) and The Drawing Center Annual Benefit Show (New York City; US).
The Shell Reads James Baldwin, Imagines Being In The Book
Oil and spray paint on enamel
2023
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The Shell in Contemplation
Oil and spray paint on panel
2023
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Undress
Oil on wood panel in floating black painted oak frame
2022
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Blue Angels
Oil and spray paint on panel
2023
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Helen's Hallway-Study of Yellow Vase
Oil and glitter on panel
2023
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Shea Butter Babies
Oil, spray paint and glitter glue on panel
2023
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The Shell Reads James Baldwin, Imagines Being In The Book
Oil and spray paint on enamel, 2023
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The Shell in Contemplation
Oil and spray paint on panel, 2023
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Undress
Oil on wood panel in floating black painted oak frame, 2022
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Blue Angels
Oil and spray paint on panel, 2023
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Helen's Hallway-Study of Yellow Vase
Oil and glitter on panel, 2023
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Shea Butter Babies
Oil, spray paint and glitter glue on panel, 2023
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Portrait of Marcus Leslie Singleton
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Marcus Leslie Singleton, Return from Exile, Installation view, 2023
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Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen (DK)
That hustle, that democratic dance, that parade which the works of Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen constituted the theater is affected by a gentle and slow metamorphosis. The boundary between the dynamic surfaces resulting from an initial disintegration of the drawing, followed by a fleeting coloring as well as an arbitrary and abstract reassembly and the most delicate line that caresses idyllic scenes, seems to become impalpable and silky. Everything is hinted at and at the same time full of its identity and the rhythm becomes cadenced and enthralling like that of a Bolero. The tree is yellow, burnt by its sun and its leaves are lost on the canvas as if the essence had already been given away by the stroke; the animal is spotted and amused; the woman is lying and vacillating—her breast harmonious; the flower kisses the cloud; the branch is the color of the sky; a child merges with a ball and crab.
Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen (b. 1977; DK) lives and works in Kalundborg, Denmark. He holds a BFA in fine art and contemporary critical theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK and a MFA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Untitled
Gouache, graphite and glue on canvas (intarsia and collage) in floating oak frame
2023
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Untitled
Gouache, graphite and glue on canvas (intarsia and collage) in floating oak frame
2023
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First Light
Gouache painted intarsia collage, mounted on canvas in floating oak frame
2024
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Moon and Elwis
Gouache painted intarsia collage, mounted on canvas in floating oak frame
2024
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Cosmica
Gouache painted intarsia collage, mounted on canvas in floating oak frame
2024
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Untitled
Gouache, graphite and glue on canvas (intarsia and collage) in floating oak frame, 2023
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Untitled
Gouache, graphite and glue on canvas (intarsia and collage) in floating oak frame, 2023
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First Light
Gouache painted intarsia collage, mounted on canvas in floating oak frame, 2024
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Moon and Elwis
Gouache painted intarsia collage, mounted on canvas in floating oak frame, 2024
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Cosmica
Gouache painted intarsia collage, mounted on canvas in floating oak frame, 2024
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Emma Kohlmann (US)
During the past decade, Emma Kohlmann has developed a distinct visual universe, easily recognizable for its amorphous figures. Rendered in an evocative color scheme and framed in pyrographed cherry wood frames, her signature style has with the last series settled into an almost naïve, folksy symbolism. The same hybrid figures appear in Kohlmann’s paintings again and again: bodies turn into candelabras, heads unfurl wings, a tailless cow acts as shelter, and women grow leaves as limbs. Strange in a way that only Kohlmann can do.
Emma Kohlmann (b.1989, New York City, NY) lives and works in Western Massachusetts. She holds a BA from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Kohlmann publishes her own artist zines and other ephemera such as records, book plates, and wearable artworks. She has exhibited extensively in the past years, including the Portland Museum of Art, USA, MOCA, Tucson, USA, Jack Hanley, New York, USA and Tennis Elbow/The Journal, New York, USA.
Familial Plant
Acrylic on canvas in pyrographed birch frame
2021
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Sunflower
Acrylic on canvas in floating cherry wood frame
2021
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Light in a Dark Place
Acrylic on canvas in floating hand painted cherry wood frame
2021
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Star/Sun
Acrylic on canvas in embellished walnut frame
2023
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Familial Plant
Acrylic on canvas in pyrographed birch frame, 2021
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Sunflower
Acrylic on canvas in floating cherry wood frame, 2021
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Light in a Dark Place
Acrylic on canvas in floating hand painted cherry wood frame, 2021
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Star/Sun
Acrylic on canvas in embellished walnut frame, 2023
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