Eliza Goodpasture

2 weeks ago | artnews.com | Eliza Goodpasture

Helen Chadwick was obsessed with the restless, fleeting vestiges of things and feelings that had vanished—what she called “fugitive traces.” Her huge breadth of multimedia installations bloomed out of the effort to examine the ephemera of life. “Chadwick is capturing the fugitive not in a spirit of grief or censure, but in celebration,” her friend Marina Warner wrote in a 1989 essay.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eliza Goodpasture

‘I’m just trying to get one step ahead of my paintings,” says Megan Rooney, who is surrounded by the vibrant, gestural abstract works in her studio. She moves through the space restlessly as we chat, rocking on to her tiptoes and arching her arms through the air in an echo of the curving strokes in the paintings. She calls it “dangerous work”, her slow, fraught process of creation.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eliza Goodpasture

Viewers may find Rachel Jones’s paintings “beautiful”, but they should be warned: the artist herself doesn’t love that word. “In our culture, the idea of beauty sadly isn’t discussed in a critical, rich way – it’s much more reductive as a term,” says the 34 year old. “I hope that when people describe the work as beautiful, it doesn’t just stop there.” Her aim, she says, is to pull viewers in deeper, beyond the surface of the work.

3 weeks ago | artnews.com | Eliza Goodpasture

“Metaphors are necessary for change,” said Bint Mbareh, who animates her work with the metaphor of waves: waves of water, waves of sound. She grew up in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and her sound art and installations engage layered meanings of water for Palestinians, as a material that is both violent and sacred.

1 month ago | artnews.com | Eliza Goodpasture

With the swipe of a huge brush, Jen DeLuna blurs her paintings before they can dry, freezing the image in a hazy moment. She describes the effect: “It’s like that feeling of memory fading, like something you can barely grasp.” Indeed, the works have a powerful feeling of uneasiness about them. Based on vintage found photographs, their combination of movement and stillness is inherently painterly.