Justin Wheatley

City Grit

2021

Josh George's (US based) "Standing in the Catbird Seat" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts an aerial view of intersecting buildings...

Justin Wheatley's "Crosswalk" is an original, handmade mixed-media painting that depicts a busy city street extending into the distance as a crosswalk and vertical yellow and purple ...

A peaceful landscape scene in shades of pale blue and light yellow accented with teal blue, yellow and orange sculptural details along the lower part of the composition. Tall, grac...

Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. We often speak of a "brain drain," but in this case we are truly happy to be able to say that this is a "return," and an important one: an artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art...