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Stranger Will, cover by committee
Much is said about the difference between art and product, between creative motivation and monetary motivation. I think that perhaps no medium bridges those two worlds better than the book cover, a visual meant to entice a person to experience the art within. But what is strange about any art ...
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“Lipstick and Rouge” At The Second Space Gallery
This month The Second Space gallery in Spokane, WA held its first ever juried show titled “Lipstick and Rouge”. The show’s title was to illicit the idea that color can portray emotion or be associated with a thought. Most of the work accepted seemed to hold true to the theme ...
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Raw Emotion
Oskar Kokoscha’s Bride of the Wind (die Windsbraut), is an impassioned depiction of his tumultuous love affair with Viennese socialite Alma Mahler. Painted in 1913 during the chaos of World War I, Bride of the Wind seems to portray not only the extent of Kokoscha’s feelings for his lover, but ...
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Matreyek’s Multi-sensory Visions
Miwa Matreyek procures beautifully ornate compositions that blend performance art, animation, sculpture and music. She challenges the viewer by blending representational and surreal imagery with a mix of soft, gentle music with a dash of electronic grind at times. She juxtaposes real space vs. created space, real time vs. manipulated ...
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Alphonse Mucha
Awe, Alphonse Mucha. Beautiful flowing lines and organic bold colors that make me feel relaxed just by looking at them. He is slowly becoming one of my favorites. I love how is work usually has different borders within one piece and a mix of different shapes that give it balance.
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Sybille Peretti: A Subconscious Connection
This German born glass artist has been one of my favorites since I first encountered her work in a New Orleans gallery in 2003. I later worked in the same studio building for a time, where I was able to see her work transform. Being a glass artist myself, I ...
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Jake | BRUTON STROUBE
Bruton Stroube is a photography studio composed of three photographers, Greg Stroube, Brandon Voges, and Eric Johnson (come on, Eric; change your last name to something crazy already). Most of the photography available on the Bruton Stroube website has commercial lean to it, but one series stuck out. Something strange ...
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Eye | STEVE WILSON
Anyone else get Earthworm Jim flashbacks when looking at this?
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Nature Adapts
Nature will always be my favorite artist. I am amazed by the seemingly unnatural things it does, like join with a fence.
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American by birth, Mexican socialist by choice
Pablo O’Higgins (b. Paul Higgins Stevenson, 1904, d. 1983) was of good ol’ Aryan Mormon stock hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended East High School (a place High School Musical fanatics might recognize), studying under the painter LeConte Stewart. He took his passion for visual language and interest ...
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The Elaborately Staged Work of Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson is a photographer who’s works echo some of the more elaborate scenes of past painted masterpieces. His work does strike out on its own with original concepts, yet still reminds me of Rembrant or Dali. The incredibly detailed scenes often depict suburban culture in a haunting fashion and ...
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Finding Beauty in the Ordinary
I had the pleasure of seeing a William Eggleston exhibit this past February at the Chicago Art Institute Museum. The exhibit was featured in the new Modern Wing of the museum, and spanned several decades of the artist’s life. I was not yet familiar with Eggleston’s work at the time ...
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i am here And You Are Gone book cover
When planning a cover design, one approach is to extract an image from the story and build upon it to reflect the narrative’s overall tone. Here, I felt as though I had no other option than to take this approach.