I first saw the work of Aris Moore on The Jealous Curator, and more recently Art Hound. Each time I’ve been really taken by her work, which most notably uses facial features and proportion in an interesting and rather uncanny way. …
I first saw the work of Aris Moore on The Jealous Curator, and more recently Art Hound. Each time I’ve been really taken by her work, which most notably uses facial features and proportion in an interesting and rather uncanny way. …
I very recently received an email from Rebecca Chaperon, alerting me that she currently has a show at Elissa Cristall Gallery in Vancouver until February 25th. Not knowing her work previously, I was really intrigued upon viewing her paintings. They…
I found the work of Lauren Humphrey on Art Cake, a fairly newish art blog out of Portland. Lauren is a student of illustration, and her hand-drawn and hand-colored works playing into a folk-art aesthetic. The combination of accented saturated…
I am really enjoying the spaces that Shara Hughes paints. I’m always intrigued by personal, interior spaces, as you often learn more about someone from just viewing their room rather than speaking with them. I sort of feel the same…
I really enjoy reading web comics, and recent came across Infomaniacs, drawn by Matthew Thurber. Infomaniacs is a funny yet somewhat strange story of social media and the neuroses and implications that arise from it. Once I saw the term…
Jenni Sparks is a designer that loves hand-drawn type, and it is clearly something that she excels in. Her type is bold and its own way illustrative, focusing a lot on popular culture and pop music. If you visit her…
Seripop is the collaboration between Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum who started Seripop in 2002. Hailing from Canada, the duo seems to create a lot of screen printed works that then make their way to into massive installations and other…
Based in Leeds, Leah Durant states that her primary passion is photography, which is melded with printmaking, collage, and drawing. In collaged pieces, Leah’s photography is often non-specific and enlarged to highlight texture. Aesthetically, I love the diffused nature of…
If you were to walk by MICA’s Studio Center on North Avenue (close to what I am told is the slowest McDonald’s in the world) during the month of January, then you most likely saw the work of Jowita Wyszomirska…
The illustration and paintings of Sarah Williamson are simply wonderful, utilizing a few different techniques to bring forth her visual language. There is a major emphasis on the freedom of media (as she paints with wet-on-wet) and a love the…