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Neha Vedpathak: Defiant

Neha Vedpathak

By Heike Dempster

Original Post: Art Districts Magazine 

“Defiant,” at N’Namdi Contemporary, encompasses 13 multi-layered works by Neha Vedapathak in which the artist offers a view into her innovative practice and recent explorations of space and landscape while inviting the viewer to delve deeper, literally and conceptually, into the works she has fabricated.

Born in India, Vedpathak created the majority of the works in the exhibition while living in Phoenix, Ariz. and Detroit, Mich., where she currently resides and maintains her studio. Using a unique technique of paper plucking she created herself, Vedpathak presents works that explore a variety of subjects via concept and process as well as multiple layers of materials, texture and color. Vedpathak studiously maintains her focus on the artistic process, innate qualities of materials, mystery of nature, idea of the ritual, concepts and interpretations of time and in the contemporary notion of space. In “Defiant,” Vedpathak closely investigates landscape, light and architecture, as well as society living and moving within that landscape, specifically Phoenix and Detroit.

 

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Patrick Quarm – Paradox: Surfaces of Self

Patrick Quarm. Paradox: Surfaces of Self

By Heike Dempster

Original Post Patrick Quarm. Paradox: Surfaces of Self

Patrick Quarm’s exhibition “Paradox: Surfaces of Self” at N’Namdi Contemporary Art’s new Little Haiti space presents nine new works by the artist focusing on cultural hybridity, identity construction and its fluidity, and the interconnectedness of past, present and future.

Born in Sekondi, Ghana in 1988, Quarm currently lives and practices in the United States. He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana with a BFA in Painting and a Masters of Fine Art degree at Texas Tech University; his work has been showcased at K.N.U.S.T Museum Kumasi, Ghana; Peckham International Art Fair (PIAF), London, England; and the Caviel Museum of African American History, Lubbock, Texas, amongst others. He has also served as a teaching assistant and Adjunct Professor for painting and drawing courses in both Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Texas Tech University.

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Stephen Arboite Dreamscapes: The Metaphore Has Shifted to Healing

Stephen Arboite, Untitled, 2020, coffee, charcoal, mixed media collage on paper All images are courtesy of N'Namdi Contemporary, Miami.

By Heike Dempster

Oringal post Art Districts Magazine – Florida

With “Dreamscapes: The Metaphor Has Shifted to Healing,” artist Stephen Arboite presents a series of soulful and spiritual works focusing on a metamorphosic journey, inviting viewers along on an emotional and introspective path to self-discovery and healing.

The paintings are representative of the past 10 years of Arboite’s artistic practice and are as much rooted in the present. They are continuations of investigations he started to pursue while a student, when he first discovered coffee as a medium. Initially chosen based on a lack of resources, the coffee soon led the artist on a powerful journey to explore his Haitian heritage and various discourses on the Caribbean diaspora.

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New York Times: As a Painter Grows Older, His Creativity Endures

By RACHEL L. SWARNS FEB. 23, 2014

Ed Clark stood silently before the canvas on the floor of his studio. He buy essays online considered the muted morning light, the paint and its promise. Then he pushed a broom across the surface, capturing the hues of daybreak and twilight with each stroke.

He leaned on his personal assistant, who steadied Mr. Clark’s aging body. There was a time when it seemed that nothing could stop him from painting with his push broom, one of his signature innovations. But he is 87 now. After about three hours, he was physically spent.

“When you get older, what you’ve done when you were younger, you research paper can’t do anymore,” Mr. Clark said last week, as he sank slowly into his easy chair. “That’s just the body getting old. It’s telling me, ‘You won’t be here for long.’ ”

Then he grinned: “But I don’t intend to go.”

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An Artistic Encounter

By Lisa Skolnik

James and Mary Bell know buy essays online what they like when they see it. When they met artist William Tolliver in Los Angeles 25 years ago, they were immediately drawn to his work— but didn’t buy an original piece until several years later

At the time, James was an executive with Rockwell International Corporation and Mary was a business analyst with TRW. Her best friend, Carmen N’Namdi, had opened a gallery in Detroit with her husband, George, who urged the Bells to buy works by African American masters. “[George] meant the research paper masters, like Romare Bearden, Artis Lane or Jacob Lawrence.

We loved the work, but we didn’t have that kind of budget,” says Mary. The Tolliver they did eventually buy inspired them to purchase more of what they term papers liked. “We didn’t start out as collectors,” explains James, who is now Boeing’s corporate president, executive vice president and CFO.

Art Pulse: The Long Sweep

The Long Sweep A Conversation with Ed Clark about His 60-Plus Years in the Art World By Jeff Edwards Abstract Expressionist painter Ed Clark has been an influential figure in the world of painting for more than six decades. In addition to his buy essays online signature push-broom sweep paintings, he was also an innovator in the field of shaped canvases and one of the original artists in the Brata Gallery during New York’s Tenth Street co-op gallery boom in the 1950s. His works are included in the permanent collections of more than a dozen museums and institutions, including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the California African American Museum in Los Angeles and the Centro de Arte Moderno in research paper Guadalajara, Mexico. In anticipation of his term papers upcoming retrospective at N’Namdi Contemporary Miami, we spoke with Clark about his life as an artist, the evolution of his style and techniques, and some of the experiences he’s had during his travels around the world.

EDWARD CLARK: Master of Abstract Expressionism

By Jenna Bond-Louden

This summer, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is presenting works from their collection in the retrospective Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960. A saturating stroll through the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building on Museum Mile in New York City, the presentation reflects works selected by former Guggenheim director James Johnson Sweeney as highlighted works and artists of the post-Word War II abstract expressionist movement.

The show illuminates the names of greats including Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Georges Mathieu, Mark Rothko, and Kenzo Okada. The breadth of artists and the complexity of works require a half-day to view in full, and perhaps two visits to fully consider.

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