Issue 163

New American Paintings

Follow the Evolution of Contemporary Painting

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New American Paintings
Editor/Publisher: Steven Zevitas Design/Production Manager: Alexandra Simpson Operations Manager: Alexandra Simpson Marketing Manager: Liz Morlock Copy Editor: Lucy Flint ■
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Recent Jurors:
Nora Burnett Abrams Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Bill Arning Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Janet Bishop San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Staci Boris Elmhurst Art Museum Nina Bozicnik Henry Art Gallery Steven L. Bridges Eli and Edythe Broad
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Editor’s Note
The juror for this issue is Jenny Gheith, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Our annual review of artists working in the Pacific Coast region always draws a large and strong group of applicants. Jen
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Noteworthy:
Juror’s Pick p124 William Scott’s utopian vision pictures a world where wholesome citizens live in a peaceful, just society. Based in science fiction and fantasy, his detailed compositions reimagine not only the architecture and urban structures of h
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Winners: Pacific Coast Competition 2022
Inga Bard | Chase Biado | Heather Brown | Gina M. Contreras | Jeremy Okai Davis Deidre DeFranceaux | Sally Deng | Gwynna Dille | Nancy Evans | Katja Farin Maya Fuji | Daniela Garcia Hamilton | Elias Hernandez | stephanie mei huang | Kelly Lynn Jones
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Jenny Gheith
In times of great change, many people find solace in the pursuits of those who devote their lives to the creative arts. Writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are frequently the ones who help us process the harsh realities that surround us, and
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Juror’s Selections
The following section is presented in alphabetical order. Biographical information has been edited. Prices for available work may be found on p188. ■
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Inga Bard
San Francisco, CA ingabardstudio@gmail.com / www.ingabard.com / @ingabard I was born in Odessa, Ukraine, shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In my childhood, I witnessed my family continuously dissect their cognitive dissonance in rela
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Chase Biado
Los Angeles, CA @babyfroggy I have an existential crisis every time I make a painting. I try to be brave. Music helps, naps, exercise, friendship. What does it feel like to be alive? What’s the vibe? I’m trying to listen to myself. I think we have so
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Heather Brown
Los Angeles, CA www.heatherbrownstudio.org / @hbrown1119 My paintings are intuitive and idiosyncratic. Imagery develops through improvisation and the accrual of actions, reactions, considerations, and revisions. I draw on the idioms of modernist abst
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Gina M. Contreras
San Francisco, CA ginamcontreras@gmail.com / www.ginamcontreras.com / @ginamcontreras I approach my work with a symbolic perspective, painting melancholy self-portraits that are lighthearted and depict honestly my aspirations and disappointments with
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Jeremy Okai Davis
Portland, OR 503.224.0521 (Elizabeth Leach Gallery) www.work.jeremyokaidavis.com / @jeremyokaiart My stylistic figuration employs a kind of pixelation/pointillist hybridization that references photography while highlighting painterly brushstrokes. I
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Deidre DeFranceaux
Santa Rosa, CA artbydeige@gmail.com / www.deidre-defranceaux.com / @artbydeige My current work is a synthesis of my portrait painting and sculptural practices, incorporating 3D elements such as fabric, costume jewels, and personal items with oil pain
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Sally Deng
Montebello, CA ww.sallydeng.com / @sa.deng Sally Deng creates art for magazines, newspapers, books, and more in her Los Angeles studio. Her art explores the interactions between individual figures and their environments. Through bold strokes and quie
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Gwynna Dille
Los Angeles, CA studio@gwynnadille.com / www.gwynnadille.com My work is about contemporary mythology: pulling intimate details of my own life into the stories of magic and mystery I grew up hearing from my dad. I imagine the thin spaces of religion m
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Nancy Evans
Venice, CA 213.395.0762 (Luis De Jesus Los Angeles) evansnancy3@gmail.com / www.nancyevans.me / @artblather My paintings start with pouring paint on canvas. Usually I have a color in mind, and a simple composition. The Moon paintings are moody with d
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Katja Farin
Los Angeles, CA www.katjafarin.com / @katjafarin The work is about relationships, interactions, loneliness versus aloneness, and empathy. The figures are exploring their self-realization, needs, and motives. The relationships between the figures repr
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Maya Fuji
San Francisco, CA fuji1kenobe@gmail.com / www.mayafuji.com / @fuji1kenobe Born in Japan and raised in the California Bay Area, Maya Fuji is inspired by both her cultural heritage and the exploration of the liminal space she lives in as an issei (firs
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Daniela Garcia Hamilton
Oxnard, CA danigarciaart@gmail.com / www.danigarciaart.com / @dahnniii I create paintings that are influenced by my cultural upbringing as a first-generation Mexican American. I reflect on the cultural rituals I was raised with. Being the first to le
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Elias Hernandez
Sunnyvale, CA eliashernandez408@gmail.com / www.eliasxhernandez.com / @eliasxhernandez Reality and the anthropomorphic are the soul derivations of my character-building universes, which tie lifelike experiences through alternating and world-making co
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Stephanie Mei Huang
Los Angeles, CA stephaniemeihuang@gmail.com / www.stephaniemei.com / @stephaniemeihuang Within the first six years of my life, I moved from Wisconsin to Indiana, then to Yokohama, Japan, and on to Shanghai, China. Through this diasporic upbringing, m
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Kelly Lynn Jones
Los Angeles, CA 747.273.8240 (The Pit) www.kellylynnjones.com / @kelly_lynn_jones Referencing my own daily life, I paint imagined spaces at the intersection of the real and whimsical. I look for tender moments of reflection to highlight, whether they
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Amanda Rose Kachadoorian
San Diego, CA artfromrose@gmail.com / www.amandakachadoorian.com / @art_from_rose I use painting as a tool to create pre-existing landscapes, before modern development, and surrealist plants that are inspired by botanicals from various ecosystems. Th
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Koak
San Francisco, CA 415.576.9300 (Altman Siegel) Koak creates emotionally charged portraits of figures imbued with a sense of agency and inner life. Drawing on the visual vocabulary of comics, her work engages hierarchies of gender and form, interrogat
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Alex Kupczyk
Pasadena, CA 818.434.9153 alexkupczyk@outlook.com / www.alexkupczyk.com / @alexkupczyk I think of my main body of work as an allegory of life and death told in an unconventional and deliberately obfuscated way. Each individual work is a moment in a v
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Terry Leness
Tieton, WA 310.828.5070 (Skidmore Contemporary Art) terryleness@gmail.com / www.terryleness.com / @lenessterry Brilliant light, deep shadows, rich color, clean lines, and repetitive forms are the elements that best define my work. Early, simple studi
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Jamie L. Luoto
Healdsburg, CA info@jamieluoto.com / www.jamieluoto.com / @jamie_luoto My current body of work, I Believe in Ghosts, is a series of self-portraits that illuminates the aftermath of sexual assault: the lasting psychological impact of interpersonal tra
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Annie McCone-Lopez
Manhattan Beach, CA anniemcconelopez@gmail.com / @anniemcconelopez My work explores the many facets and connections I have with my Mexican heritage. Using myth and cosmology to express the divine feminine in order to bring forth our story. Bringing a
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Richard-Jonathan Nelson
Berkeley, CA richardartistmail@gmail.com / www.richard-jonathan-nelson.com / @rich_nels My work expands modern definitions of Black existence through the boundless imaginative possibilities within speculative fiction. Through textiles, video, photogr
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Kyle Perry
Seattle, WA artandnothingness@gmail.com / www.artandnothingness.com / @nobody._._nothing When we view art, the experience is as much a reflection of our own thoughts and feelings as it is a perception of the art itself. Bearing this relationship in m
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Slate Quagmier
Hayward, CA 310.652.8272 (Gallery 825) slatequagmier@gmail.com / www.slatequagmier.com / @slatequagmier My current series focuses on still-life paintings inspired by both COVID-19 and the Baroque. Each painting is themed for both the month in which i
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Julie Read
Port Townsend, WA artbyjulieread@gmail.com / www.artbyjulieread.com Julie Read became interested in painting after encountering the work of a folk artist in Vermont, though she has always been busy making some sort of art. Read grew up in northeaster
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Hannah Lupton Reinhard
Los Angeles, CA 212.633.6555 (Fredericks & Freiser) hannahluptonreinhard@gmail.com / @hannahmontana12346789 The paintings seek to investigate dualities of beauty and ugliness, movement and paralysis, beckoning and withdrawal, naïveté and sophisticati
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Stephanie Sachs
Kihei, HI 808.298.1600 stephsachs@gmail.com / www.stephaniesachs.com / @sachsmaui Islands evoke the fantasy of escape for some, but for me, having lived on Maui for over thirty years, these islands fill me with a deep sense of home. When creating thi
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William Scott
Oakland, CA www.creativegrowth.org/artists#/william-scott The Skyline Friendly Organization (SFO) is a spectacular spaceship that tours the world. Its mission is to promote peace on earth and good. wholesome behavior across the planet. Within the SFO
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Kira Maria Shewfelt
Los Angeles, CA aveavalito@gmail.com / www.kiramaria.com / @avalito My work is inspired by the edges of subjectivity and the ways in which a body contains and permits feeling. I’m interested in symbols that reframe everyday moments and current happen
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Madison Skriver
Portland, OR 913.579.3173 (Kyle Holt) mmskriver@gmail.com / www.madisonskriver.com / @beautifuluniverse I believe that there is a particular magic inherent to painting. I try to imbue some of that mysticism into my work by using saturated color palet
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Yongqi Tang
Seattle, WA yongqikay@gmail.com / www.ichibanstudio.blog / @yongqiichiban Having studied and worked between China and America, my works have been influenced by the drastically different cultural and ideological contexts of the two countries. Interest
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Michael Ward
Costa Mesa, CA 714.458.9305 michael@tmichaelward.com / www.tmichaelward.weebly.com / @tmichaelward There is a grace to the ordinary world we live in that we often overlook. My paintings, based on photos of that ordinary world, are a way for me to dis
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Dylan Wilde
Nipomo, CA dylanlwilde@gmail.com / www.dylanwilde.com / @dylanwilde Dylan Wilde blends dreamlike landscapes and domestic motifs, exploring intimacy and distance through experimentation, process and painting. Observing peripheral phenomena along Calif
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Karla Wozniak
Alameda, CA www.karlawozniak.com / @karla_wozniak My new work was born from my experience as a parent to a young child during the pandemic. In early 2020, my professional and domestic lives collapsed into each other. My home studio now became the cla
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Shingo Shaun Yamazaki
Los Angeles, CA shinyamazakiart@gmail.com / www.shinyamazaki.com / @shinnyzak My work addresses the complexities of cultural hybridity, identity, and the meaning of “home.” I draw on a mixture of cultural nuances, iconography, and imagery inspired by
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Editor’s Selections
The following section is presented in alphabetical order. Biographical information has been edited. Prices for available work may be found on p188. ■
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Miguel Arzabe
Oakland, CA studio@miguelarzabe.com / www.miguelarzabe.net / @miguel.arzabe Drawing from the textile tradition of his Latinx Bolivian heritage, Miguel Arzabe makes colorful woven paintings that are a remix of the European and the Indigenous tradition
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Kara Joslyn
Los Angeles, CA 310.550.0050 (M+B) www.karajoslyn.com / @karavaggio Kara Joslyn explores themes of storytelling and illusion through her multidimensional paintings. The artist’s moonlit spaces merge fantasy and reality, creating allegories of her own
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Rachel Simon Marino
San Francisco, CA 212.980.0700 (Venus Over Manhattan) www.rachelsimonmarino.com / @rachelsimonmarino Shocking displays of what appears to be a moment just unfolded, the curtains still swaying, wet footsteps tracked out of a room mere seconds before t
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Yoora Lee
Los Angeles, CA yooraleestudio@gmail.com / www.yooralee.com / @yooralee My paintings are filled with analogous color relationships and wavering horizontal marks that imagine an impressionism derived from video tape distortion. My brushstrokes blur th
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Lauren Reynolds
Los Angeles, CA www.laurenareynolds.com / @odorless.mineral.spirits In paintings that disrupt time and space, my work investigates trauma’s impact on memory and its effect on the psyche. Using the building blocks of my own experiences, I construct a
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Addendum Artists
The following section is presented in alphabetical order. Biographical information has been edited. ■
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Kohshin Finley
Los Angeles, CA studio@kohshinfinley.com / www.kohshinfinley.com / @kohshinfinley My paintings document the life of my friends and family, portraying them as figures fully present in their own stories. When spending time with my peers, I will often h
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Michael Haight
Los Angeles, CA maustinhaight@gmail.com / www.haight.space.com / @haight.space Haight’s primary body of work consists of transparent gestures of watercolor, gouache, tempera, and ink on canvas or board, the surfaces gessoed to evoke the texture of pa
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Pricing
Inga Bard p16 NFS p17 $3,400 p18 NFS Chase Biado p20 POR p21 POR p22 NFS Heather Brown p24 $8,000 p25 $8,000 p26 $8,000 Gina M. Contreras p28 NFS p29 $1,400 p30 NFS Jeremy Okai Davis p32 NFS p33 NFS p34 NFS Deidre DeFranceaux p36 $25,000 p37 $25,000

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