If you live in Baltimore, you’ve no doubt seen the paintings of Jordan Kasey. Her large paintings on canvas command your attention and their content keeps you looking. The last few years of Jordan’s work seems to explore a land…
If you live in Baltimore, you’ve no doubt seen the paintings of Jordan Kasey. Her large paintings on canvas command your attention and their content keeps you looking. The last few years of Jordan’s work seems to explore a land…
Malin Bergström is an Swedish-based artist and illustrator. She creates collages that suggest they might run parallel with the natural world, but not intersect. With one series of collages, Malin titles them Purely Coincidental, with the explanation, “Any resemblance to…
The work of Brooklyn-based illustrator Morgan Blair is inspired by motion graphics on VHS tapes from the 80’s and 90’s (oddly specific, but I know exactly what she speaks of), Lisa Frank, and Tetris. To further her work with nostalgia…
I always knew that Lizzy Stewart could draw. But, when she was kind enough to send me one of her latest endeavors, Toska, I really got to see her drawing prowess first hand, not just on the interwebs. Her beautiful…
Rebecca introduced me to the work of Caitlin Ducey, and I’m really taken by her exploration in the use of plastic straws in sculptural forms. Caitlin has used them to create work that is pleasing on many different levels. She…
This video from Ryan Mauskopf sat in my inbox for too long. I finally watched it the other day and smiled the whole way through. The concept is simple, but the characters and music are so delightful and work so…
Amber Kempthorn’s work employs the use of mythical creatures and birds to convey a narrative that is often times a quest, the beginning or end of it. Absurd situations and characters help to make their stories believable and endearing. I…
Continuing a bit of typography on Brown Paper Bag today, I am really enjoying the word paintings of Wayne White. Wayne is not new to the art scene, as he’s had a fairly long career, starting out as an illustrator…
Would you want to live in Mazzarella Thomas’s world? While I like his work, I wonder if I could hack it. It’s the application of paint that gets me. While his paintings don bright colors and open space, there is…
My friend and fellow artist Amanda turned me on to the work of Adam Weir. Using gouache and watercolor, he paints disjointed environments. His statement: Through works on paper, I explore ideas of displacement, consumption, and the environments in which…