Archive for September, 2010
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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.