Our curator selects five international artists whose work he would recommend keeping an eye on in 2024.
By Phin Jennings | 21 Dec 2023
At Rise Art, we have always been global in our outlook; we want to share the stories and perspectives of outstanding artists with anyone, anywhere, who wants to take part. These artistic voices come from all over the world. Below are five international artists whose work I would recommend keeping an eye on in 2024.
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Based out of LUNA, a part-indoor, part-outdoor 2,400 square metre cloister in rural Chile that they designed and built themselves, Sofia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo are architects who make art. Or are they artists who make buildings? For the duo, the boundary between art and architecture is necessarily blurred. Their paintings and drawings feed into the spaces they create and vice versa. Having shown at the Royal Academy of Arts and Venice Biennale among other venues, they plan to continue to show their work in the UK and internationally in 2024.
Barbara Kuebel
When she joined Rise Art in 2021, Barbara Kuebel was a US-based printmaker who drew us in with her large-scale woodcuts depicting tangled bodies in block colours. More than two years later her compositions still delight us, and have expanded in media to include thickly-applied acrylic and oil paint on canvas and meticulous graphite on paper. Landscape on my Soul, a new work on canvas sees the artist’s figures replaced with less determinate shapes that come together to form a dramatic, Guston-esque landscape.
Arnaud Lorieau
In the middle of 2023 we added a number of French artists to our roster, and I am still enjoying discovering gems among their ranks every day. Recently, I have been particularly interested in Arnaud Lorieau’s subtle compositions. There is a beautiful interplay between order and chaos in his floral paintings, where gestural marks and drips of oil paint compete with crisp lines – not least the boundaries of the canvas itself.
Khaled Alkhani
Another French new addition, Khaled Alkhani’s paintings of almost-always-solitary women are similarly gestural in their execution. They remind me of Willem de Kooning’s Women series. Against a uniform grey background, colourful acrylic streamers emanate from the artist’s characters, presided over by faces with expressions that range from indifferent to anguished.
Jane Pryor
Jane Pryor has shown work on our platform since 2015 and her abstract painting practice, which focuses on colour and form, has been constantly developing since. Two recent collections of her work, Every place I go… and Glimpses of home convey optimism and simplicity. Made up of crudely-rendered, four-sided shapes that either cram into the canvas or sit surrounded by negative space, something about their naive style feels childlike and playful.