Erik den Breejen J. Carino offering an interest in still

offering an interest in still life as an underrated genre - a domestic space in the history of painting and a familiar but disquieting source for contemplation

Smith College Museum of Art

Her compositions begin as rough drawings that she collages together and draws over

Laura Berger is an artist based in Chicago

Erik den Breejen J. Carino offering an interest in stillErik den Breejens text paintings and works on paper investigate the narrative and cultural significance of the written word as well as its potential for abstraction a means of exploring the language of painting itself. In his work, letters function as compositional elements of the same weight as the geometric shapes with which they interact. The artist pushes the bounds of legibility and conventional design to challenge and engage the viewers, drawing