John Ferren did not so much work outside the mainstream as circle it continuously in a personal and highly meditative quest for meaning.
David Findlay Jr Gallery
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An Abstract Painter’s Mixed-In Tensions
Any painter who doesn’t find painting difficult should be treated with suspicion. Managing real challenges, as opposed to affected ones, should be the root of an artist’s style, by choice or by consequence. The work of Logan Grider has always struck me as bound up in tensions that are either invited or just endured.
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Sparkling in the Shadow of Ab-Ex
One of the more intriguing and underappreciated of American art movements is the group called the Indian Space Painters. Seeking an innately American response to Cubism and Surrealism, artists such as Steve Wheeler, Peter Busa, and Robert Barrell began in the late 1930s to combine elements of Native American and pre-Columbian art in mosaic-like abstractions.
