Kindness and the Opposite small Caljouw is developing a new

Caljouw is developing a new body of work that brings together oil painting and pencil drawing—an exploration that reflects both refinement and experimentation within her evolving practice

Child-like subjects pluck at adult themes in paintings whose narrative provide all the answers one could expect to find on single page torn from a book

Graphite on Toned Cotton Paper

5 x 22 inches

She translates this loss into the powerful imagery of the toy gun (the “playful” or distorted appropriation of an object of violence) as a thing of beauty and pride in the form of taxidermy

Kindness and the Opposite small Caljouw is developing a newDetails About Oil on canvas 11 x 14 in. 2020 Adam Caldwell's paintings and drawings juxtapose elements of abstract expressionism and classical figuration. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, creating layered collage drawings then oil paintings. His layered and fractured paintings evoke the tensions between mind and body, self and other, present and past. They also raise questions about the nature of identity, particularly