Chie Yoshii unveils her newest painting Deliverance in Defying Gravity: Humans and Other Objects in Mid-Air at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. The group show runs July 15 - August 12.

Chie Yoshii paints dreamlike scenes of sensual maidens whose bodies are in bright relief against a dark background. The illumination of her subjects reveals a primal wilderness populated by colorful beasts and hypnotic feminine archetypes.

Steven Kenny, one of the foremost painters in contemporary Surrealism, starts the year with a solo exhibition at Melvin Gallery in Florida.  The "symbolic juxtapositions" arranged in Kenny's oil paintings are a feast for the eyes that transport the viewer to many levels of being. The artist shares his sources of inspiration in this talk. Art lovers will also be interested in Soul Flight, a book of select artworks by the artist.

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January 20 - February 24, 2017
Melvin Gallery / Florida Southern College
111 Lake Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland, FL 33801
Monday - Friday 9 AM to 4:30 PM

Chris Sedgwick's solo exhibition The Last Magician opens today at The Grand Bohemian Gallery in Asheville, NC. Sedgwick creates dazzling images of personal and sacred realms in oil, gold leaf, and mixed media. The artist describes his paintings on gold leaf as utilizing "“constellation forms to accompany the gold leaf world."  In addition to his recent development with constellation forms, Sedgwick continues to create mystical narratives of figures who communicate from atmospheric landscapes.

Gallery Location:
11 Boston Way in Biltmore Village
Asheville, NC, 28803

Exhibiting at Dacia Gallery is Patricia Watwood's New Narratives, a recent body of paintings and works on paper addressing the relationship between humanity, technology, environment, and the arts. Patricia engages us with an “allegorical combination of women who embody the sacred feminine within a narrative setting of our changing environment.” Gaia, Zephyrs, and fallen Caryatids make a concerted appeal to bring the shifting baseline to our awareness. Graceful forms, like bright talismans of beauty, incite positive action toward a more sustainable environmental future. Patricia Watwood speaks about her work in the New Narratives exhibition catalogue available for download on her site.

The Enemies of Progress recently opened at CK Contemporary in San Francisco. Conor Walton's allegorical still lifes and figurative paintings will be on view until the 7th of December. In this current body of work, Walton challenges time-honored notions of progress and boldly examines the interrelationship of culture and nature. For more information visit Walton's social media page.

Muses of Mount Helikon III group show opens this Friday, 30th of October, at Helikon Gallery. From the press release, "This annual show is an invite-only exhibit of artists from across the United States, known for being large, eclectic, colorful, and featuring high-level work in the illustrative arts - a loose term encompassing portraiture, figurework, illustration, and narrative, imaginative artwork." Classical forms meet abstract shapes in Velification a modern tondo by participating artist Damian Chavez. Show runs until the 12th of December.