I am very excited to share the latest installment of Art Together, a collaborative interview. It works like this: I create a piece of work and then mail it to the participating artist. They, in turn, respond to it some…
I am very excited to share the latest installment of Art Together, a collaborative interview. It works like this: I create a piece of work and then mail it to the participating artist. They, in turn, respond to it some…
This past Saturday I attended the opening for Conectado: Connecting at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. I personally know the artists collaborating on the piece, Jaime Bennati and May Wilson, and I was really impressed with the installation they had…
I don’t know about you, but my day has started out with a bit of stress. My moment of zen for the morning thus far is Peter Taylor’s work. His website features 10 different drawings of the same figure in…
I am loving the playfulness and subversive aesthetic of Barcelona-based Faif. On street projects, he collaborates with other artists, but you can still pick out his part. It’s helpful that he makes prints, which gives a better idea of his…
I met Erica Mahinay this past fall at the Vermont Studio Center while we were resident artists. I thought her work was amazing in person, and so this morning I was very excited to see a press release from her…
Often times, context is what gives things meaning, or gives us license to express proper emotion about something. In Michael C. Hsiung’s drawings, it’s not only the drawings I love, but his titles and explanations for his work as well…
In college, I took a class centered around the films of Alfred Hitchcock. We watched some of his classics, and it fostered my love for his films. When I saw Daniel Zender’s Hitchcock movie posters, it instantly had me adding…
Always a fan of Gaia’s work, he recently emailed me with some new work that’s up around Baltimore. Happening upon his work is always great — it’s like finding money in your pocket. His newest pieces are large and ambitious,…
Last weekend I had the delight of meeting with Elena Johnston, an artist based in my home city of Baltimore. Upon meeting her, I was instantly excited by not only her work and work space, but beautiful, light-filled apartment (and…
Today? More portraits! Or, maybe not exactly portraits, but depictions of people. It’s Irana Douer’s work,and I like it. Irana’s rather simple line drawings are complimented by accents of color and shape, interjecting symbols. There’s a connection made with nature reminds…