Recent Arrivals
New Artists
Cyrille Conan, Marvailh (Story), acrylic on canvas
Cyrille Conan was born in 1973 and grew up in Queens, New York. Conan’s parents immigrated from France, and as a first generation American he is bilingual, holds dual citizenship, and identifies as both French and American. This duality is apparent in his artwork. The graphic nature and grit of Conan’s work derives from growing up in New York City in the ‘70s and ‘80s. A love of nature and natural forms distilled from his Celtic/Breton culture have transformed into a minimal, organic, geometrical abstraction.
Conan has been developing a vocabulary of mark making, collage and textures to allow for his paintings to come into being as honestly and intuitively as possible. Each layer informs and dictates the final composition until he finds a visual balance of form, color and repetition. Visual balance is achieved through time spent manually altering the surface until his intuition reveals the final image. Everything is handmade.
Read more about Conan’s background and see his other available work here.
Claudio Eshun, Uncle Lue & Nana (3/10), digital archival inkjet print
Claudio Eshun (aka Don Claude) is a photography-based artist and educator at Harvard University. Born in Ghana, he lived in Italy until age 9 and was then raised in Worcester, Massachusetts. Eshun reflects on and reimagines scenes from his own history.
From Eshun's artist statement:
Looking outward through the eyes of my mom, my lens on the world became more graceful as a young teen...In my photographs, I reflect on and reimagine scenes from my own personal history: I see images from Ghana and Italy and more recently from America. I incorporate all these visual languages into the images I create. As a once-stateless person who had to learn how to navigate institutions, cultures and languages, my work merges my distinct identities as an African, black, hypervisible and invisible man in America.
Read more about Eshun’s background and see his other available work here.