As Labor Day approaches, I bet many of you art lovers are planning curated dinner parties at your respective beach houses. Take a look at 5 artists who have pieces that would look FABULOUS in your humble abodes.
Happy browsing! 🙂
Ward Roberts is a photographer who offers a masterful study in composition and color. Capturing public outdoor spaces along with ethereal portraits, Roberts creates composed images drawing on themes of finiteness & ephemerality.
Hometown: Melbourne & Hong Kong.
Currently reading: James Bond – Goldfinger.
Beach staple: Lots of sunscreen!
Follow Ward on Instagram and check out some of his beachy prints, below.
2. Heather Day
Heather Day is an artist who grew up in Hawaii and along the east coast of the United States, finally moving to San Francisco after graduating from Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and art history. Her background in travel and culture encouraged her to see more of the world, where she discovered a connection to nature—her main source of inspiration. Day’s art is a form of visual storytelling interested in conveying moments of interactions. She works primarily with paint and non-traditional materials, and is known for her murals. The philosophy that everything is a product of an experience frames each work, conveying stories of movement and ideas of color through seams, lines, and layers.
Go-to beach read: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed.
Phone background: A painting detail image I took of a Morris Louis painting at SFMOMA.
Dream travel destination: This is trending, but I’ll have to say Iceland.
Follow Heather on Instagram and check our her ocean-esque works below.
3. Karina Bania
Karina Bania is an abstract painter living in Southern California and on the coast of Baja, Mexico. Largely self-taught, she picked up a paintbrush and a backpack and spent years living around the world developing her art. There is a distinct harmony of spontaneity and intention, intuition and calculation, in Bania’s work. Each smear and transparent pool of color seems to have simultaneously found its own inevitable shape and to have been dictated with clarity. Bania’s paintings explore fields of space from which landscapes and interactions arise.
Astrological sign: Capricorn
Muse: The space between objects.
Go-to museum: The Broad, in LA.
Follow Karina on Instagram and check out some of her splashy pieces below.
Jordan Sullivan explores dreamlike, atmospheric subjects, often molding them into fluid narratives in his work. Some of his images detail the delicate shifts of surreal light and color spectrums and the colors melt and merge into one another, reminiscent of watercolor painting.
Drink of choice: Coffee
Playing on repeat: Nils frahm
Artistic signature: I suppose some sort of signature would lie between indescribable color and unfinished forms. Those are at least two things I am always searching for.
Follow Jordan on Instagram and check out some of his dreamy images below.
Keep up with the artists and collect their work through Uprise Art @uprisenyc.
top image // Ward Roberts
