December 5, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Welcome to the wonderful world of APAK Studio, a creative collaboration between husband and wife, Aaron and Ayumi Piland. Using gouache and acrylic, this duo paints a lush utopia filled with curious little creatures exploring the magic and mystery of life and love.
November 29, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Operating with a most gorgeous palette of rich, muted colors and earth tones, illustrator Naomi Wilkinson generates images with power, playfulness and spirit. Also, check out her shop on Etsy for digital reproductions of her work.
November 29, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Allison Schulnik paints a cast of ghoulish characters throughout her body of work, mainly noseless with sunken eye sockets. Her heavily painted canvases employ a range of depth and subtle detail. The paintings of American magic realist, Ivan Albright, came to mind when I saw Allison’s work. Both playing on the theme of macabre, blending fantastical elements with the real world.
November 28, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Employing the technology of luminous gas and glass, Sarah Blood creates minimalistic sculpture work with neon lamps and concrete. Her work is absolutely stunning and bleak, aggressively combining two very different materials.
November 28, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
In the series Dare alla Luce artist Amy Friend adds life to vintage photographs by introducing strategically placed bursts of light. These haunting images transform our view of photography, appearing almost as archaic stellar maps.
November 22, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
I was playing Sonic the Hedgehog recently and the graphics were terribly ancient looking yet so nostalgic. The work of Veronica Graham utilizes video game graphics to create wonderfully detail maps depicting various landscapes and territories.
November 22, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
In this ongoing series Reconfigured Grid from painter Jeff Depner, he well reconfigures the grid forming new shapes pointing your eye in every direction. Layering and pairing colors to trick the eye; his work inspires a modern twist on Bauhaus artist Josef Albers.
November 21, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Number 4 on my Life List is to embroider a self portrait, so you can image my excitement when I was introduced to the work of Cayce Zavaglia! Trained in painting, Cayce utilizes her background to embroider these painstakingly realistic portraits from wool and silk thread. Check out the video below to see her process.
November 21, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
Don’t be deceived by these objects, these rocks are handcrafted with handmade abaca paper and various salts adding texture and color. This is just one series from artist Kate de Para, her work explores various mediums from sculpture to drawing to photography, all capturing elements of the world around her.
November 15, 2012 by Erin Fletcher
We Make Carpets is a 3-person artist group weaving temporary contemporary carpet installations from anything but thread. Using objects such as forks, clothespins, and pasta, We Make Carpets define their work as a critique on our consumer driven society.
