A Portfolio: Florent Stosskopf

Ahead of his solo show with BEERS London later this year, we take a look at French painter Florent Stosskopf in today’s A Portfolio. As BEERS points out, “Florent Stosskopf is a self-taught painter based in Brittany, France, whose work deftly subverts traditional art-historical themes and archetypes through a contemporary perspective, reminiscent of Jonas Wood, Guy Yanai, Hillary Pecis, or Paul Wackers. Through the use of bright colours and razor-sharp line-work, his complex still lives and floral scenes borrow from the annals of Classical Antiquity, the Baroque movement, and Modernism as well as his own repertoire of imagery.” 

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This Train: Justine Kurland’s Life on the Road

Justine Kurland’s life on the road began as a child. Her mother and siblings would travel up and down the East Coast to make a living selling crafts at Renaissance fairs. Long before cell phones and our modern “van life” era, Kurland inherited certain types of knowledge: how to get by in a nomadic mode, how to build out a livable van and how to raise children on the journey. 

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A Freedom and Flight in Dominic Chambers’ “Leave Room for the Wind”

Dominic Chambers has focused much of his career on painting places with space. There is always a sense that his characters are thinking about or trying to get themselves into either a physical or spiritual place where there is room to breath. To be free. To have arms outstretched and a place to run. When I interviewed him in 2020, he told me, “I am a very active person. That was something that really got me: I’m totally complicit in this hyperactivity, 24/7 thing. I was in that system. And I do think it’s incredibly unfulfilling in a sense. Where you don’t know how to catch up with yourself. And someone who’s seemingly stable, or people who have their shit…

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