Paul Kasmin Gallery

In his paintings, Moix revisits the story and the river, repurposing that vantage point for his own commentaries.

El creador catalán afincado en Nueva York Santi Moix (51) expondrá en la galería Paul Kasmin de Manhattan el conjunto de acuarelas con las que ilustró el libro Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn para Círculo de Lectores.

On a vacation in Morocco in 1989, the artist Santi Moix spotted a large black water vase strapped to the back of a donkey. "It resembled a giant urn," Mr. Moix said. "And I was sure it was made of clay. I thought I could see the fingerprints of the maker"...

Sarah Schmerier reviews Santi Moix at Paul Kasmin Gallery for Art in America.

There is something optimistic about the work of Santi Moix and the playful spirit with which he organizes black lash-covered blobs, eerie strands of beads and swaths of crystalline blue into abstracted landscapes. His paintings evoke summertime, whether at sunset or in midday heat; in their presence, viewers may feel they're under the sky, by a lake or even in the...

It's hard to say right off exactly what the festively colored biomorphic blobs and blips of this Barcelona-born artist, represent, but their activities seem quite humanoid. Strung out in long lines or packed together in lively figural formations, inhabiting land, sea or skyscapes, they bond expressively in scenes that could approach the narrative; yet such a defined genre doesn't exist in Mr. Moix's repertory...

Originally from Barcelona, Santi Moix lived in Japan and the far east before settling in New York, where he has pursued his protean artistic adventure. Moix is constantly sketching, doodling and fiddling with everything from clay and plaster to oil paint, charcoal, scraps of paper, blocks of old wood, old photographs, chopped-up fashion magazines or branches...

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its fellowships for 2002. Awards totaling $6,750,000 were given to 184 artists, scholars and scientists. Artist recipients...

Like modernist armadas floating in tropical lagoons, this Barcelona-born painter's biomorphic improviasations drift across fields of brushy, luxuriant blueness...

Paul Kasmin is opening the new gallery year with work that moves against the current strangle hold of artworld fashion. Kasmin offers luxuriant paintings of Catalan artist Santi Moix. The paintings relish in a thickly sensual touch...