I am sorry for the delayed post today! My brain is currently working at half capacity, as I am suffering from a nasty sinus infection. Have you ever popped your ear and it’s made your jaw ache? I have, last…
I am sorry for the delayed post today! My brain is currently working at half capacity, as I am suffering from a nasty sinus infection. Have you ever popped your ear and it’s made your jaw ache? I have, last…
Vanesa Zendejas is an artist living and working in Chicago. She works on paper and with objects to create sculptures, and has an upcoming show with Katy Keefe (who I have written about previously). The show is titled Living With…
I used to have hair that was pretty long. You could do all the fun things with it, like braid it, putting a bun on the top of your head, brush it a satisfying 100 strokes…but then I decided to…
Happy Monday! I hope you are all feeling better than I am! I was sick all weekend and am still feeling a bit under the weather. Onward though, to one of today’s featured artists! It is no secret my affinity…
I love making connections, understanding how small the world really is by just a few degrees of separation. So, it is no surprise that my eyes favor compositions where it can move with fluidity around the image. Olivier Vrancken, an…
Brian Vu is a collage artist, photographer, and blogger (he runs the blog Rebel). For my purposes, I’ll be sharing his collage work with you. Brian has a succinct way of describing his art, mapped out to us in equations: live…
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…
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…
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…