Walton Ford – Audubon meets Bosch
It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that I spend a lot of time on the internet, and a large portion of that time is bombarding myself with images – tumblr blogs, pinterest, artist blogs, online magazines, self-imposed google…
Sherrie York – Reduction Linocut Printmaking
When I was in art school, my teachers often cautioned against making work too attractive. They would dismiss work that was visually appealing as “too easy”. I guess in retrospect what they meant was that it’s easy to enjoy decorative…
A Brief History of John Baldessari
John Baldessari is pretty epic, a towering figure in art (literally and figuratively) . Conceptual art is pretty funny to me; I suspect he also has a sense of humour about it, too. Anyhow, Baldessari has been around for long…
FAILE in Mongolia
FAILE is an artist collective operating out of Brooklyn, and are one of my favourite voices in street art. They’ve been around for a little more than a decade, and started out as a street art crew but have been…
Jason Cantoro
Every now and then I see an image on Pinterest that piques my curiosity and voilà, I discover a new artist. Such was the case with Jason Cantoro. I’m a visual artist living and working in Montreal, Canada. … I…
Jill Hadley Hooper
I came across an intriguing image on Art Listings Professional by Jill Hadley Hooper. There’s something quite haunting about it. I’m reminded of the odd visual effect of seeing snow fall in front of a dark wall – against the sky,…
Sonnenzimmer
I’ve been seeing a lot of Sonnenzimmer around the interwebs, for good reason – their work is really fantastic. The Chicago-based duo, Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi, teamed up in 2006 to create (amongst other things) pleasantly minimalist posters for a…
