Yuri Figueroa

ORDER - Abstract Geometric Oil Painting, Multi-Colored Blocks

2021

This painting is the artist's rendering of Hell. We see hundreds of small faces descending into a fiery swirl of reds, yellows and blues. The faces seem to...

This painting is the artist's rendering of Purgatory. Some of the faces are barely visible through the murky atmosphere, their expressions are frightened, yelling into the void. The ...

In this abstract work, Mexico-born artist Yuri Figueroa uses bright, dynamic colors on a stark, white background to point the viewer towards larger issues ...

This piece is part of an exhibition in which Yuri Figueroa explores the relation between artworks that inform each other but respond to different systems of categorizing movement and color, where conventional structure and intuitive placing of tones will determine the disruptive chaos of the surrounding artworks and vice versa. Repercussion explores Chaos Theory, which explains that within the apparent randomness of chaotic and complex systems, there are underlying patterns and interconnectedness. You cannot have chaos without order and you cannot have order without chaos. What are the repercussions of a small change in the order of things? What conditions make patterns unpredictable? This particular painting, titled "Chaos III...

A companion painting to this piece, TECHNOLOGY OF DIRT is owned by the Knoxville Museum of Art. The painting "TECHNOLOGY OF DIRT & AIR" was inspired by an image glanced as I passed by a florist shop window. Inside the florist show was a vibrant floral arrangement overflowing with roses and foliage. On the surface of the window were reflections of architecture behind me and abstracted slivers of light and distorted shapes of things reflected though hardly recognizable. I snapped a few photographs at the time. Several months later, I returned to those images and was intrigued at how the flowers in the image seemed to be made out of crystal and how the reflections on the window "interrupted" the ability to easily make out the forms in the photograph. I was intrigued by the complexity of the image and how recognizable elements emerged and then faded into abstraction. As I worked on this painting, I wanted it to be as if it was coming into crisp focus, while also becoming a complicated tapestry of shapes and colors. I have made six paintings in this series thus far. Jered Sprecher is a visual artist who was born in Lincoln, Nebraska (1976). He received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and his B.A. from Concordia University in Nebraska. He has taught at Princeton University and Cornell University. Mr. Sprecher currently lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee. Jered Sprecher’s studio practice explores the “handwriting” of humankind. The vocabulary that he draws from is focused on the vast array of marks and images in one’s surroundings. From this vocabulary he samples visual motifs and imports them into his paintings and drawings. These works continually focus on remnants and fragments that are captured in the midst of change, then edited and fused together in the space of painting. These images are pregnant with a longing to communicate. The success and failure of these “messages in a bottle” are the basis of his work. Mr. Sprecher has had solo exhibitions at Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago; Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York; the Art Gallery of Knoxville; The Cress Gallery-UTC, Chattanooga; and Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music (Next Next Art), New York; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville; Des Moines Art Center; Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; Arthouse, Austin; Mark Moore Gallery...

FROM A VANISHED GREEN is a multilayer oil, gouache and acrylic painting on paper, with additional use of tyvek and polyester mesh. Through layered silhouettes of hand cut tyvek shape...

JULIE HEDRICK SOLAR WINDS / EKI, (Basque) Sun Goddess, 2021 oil on canvas, triptych 60 x 180 in. 152.4 x 457.2 cm.

JULIE HEDRICK RA (Egypt) Sun God, 2021 oil on canvas (diptych) 60 x 120 in. 152.4 x 304.8 cm.

In this series of portraits, Birch materializes enigmatic, ectoplasmic figures in his psychologically charged canvases linking sympathies between external forces and interior emotion...

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A large figurative abstract, acrylic and oil on canvas over panel painting execute in purples, blacks, reds, oranges and greens by Annie Lapin. Signed verso, "Annie Lapin".