Robert Rauschenberg – Monogram
There are few artists whose work I admire more than that of Robert Rauschenberg. Not only for his work itself, but how it pushed boundaries of how art was considered. In 1964, after Robert Rauschenberg won the Venice Biennale Grand…
New Work from FAILE
So I was checking out Arrested Motion today and it would seem that FAILE are continuing to be as productive as ever. Apparently they are doing some kind of collaborative work with the New York City Ballet (?!) NYCB Art Series commissions…
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…
Daniel Arsham
There are some people in this world so full of talent, creativity, and the ability to do a fantastic job at everything they touch that you’re left awestruck by them. Daniel Arsham is one of those people. Born in Cleveland…
Morgan Craig
While looking through some older posts on ARTchipel, one of my favourite blogs, I found some lovely paintings of abandoned spaces by Philadelphia, PA artist Morgan Craig. His work is pretty amazing, actually – he makes quite large paintings (oil…
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…
Chuck Close – New Work, New Show, New York
I’ve written about Chuck Close before. He’s amazing, in short. He has worked with really large portraits of peoples’ faces worked in different kinds of grid treatments since the 60s, really playing with the line between theory and craft. It’s…
Scott Conary
Scott Conary is a painter originally from the east coast but now living & working in Portland, OR. It seems like every American painter I’ve noticed over the last year lives in Brooklyn or Portland. In any case, I was…
Mild Climate – Blaine Fontana and Amy Ruppel
Checking out Hi-Fructose, I found out about a new show opening this Saturday, Mild Climate. It’s a collaborative exhibition at Art Whino Gallery in Washington DC featuring a pair of Portland OR artists, Blaine Fontana and Amy Ruppel. I enjoy collaborative work…
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…
