Author Archive
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cover of The Luzhin Defense | PAUL SAHRE, JOHN GALL
Each cover consists of a photograph of a specimen box, the kind used by collectors like Nabokov to display insects.
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untitled | CALEB MORRIS
Quite a skill, to create such a visceral image, but still have it overpowered by something as simple as color
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Shark Boss | TOM KEATING
This is not a romanticized version of simpler times; this is a dark depiction of the complications too easily forgotten.
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cover of December | BARBARA DE WILDE
the chewing-hair image is striking due to its nearly universal connotations: that of the young tease
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hangboy | MIKE MOREY
Even though the imagery itself may connote something horrible or vicious (homoerotic asphyxiation), the tone of the piece is surprisingly fun.
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untitled stencil
the heavy contrast, visceral image, utilitarian san-serif font, and heavy dripping cut right to the artist’s point.
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Magdaline | DESSA KIRK
a very harsh, rigid feel that works with the metal to contrast against both the implied movement and the feminine figure
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inward-scream-outward-lust | JEFF FILIPSKI
men become monsters when voluptuous women flaunt their wares
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Dressed | BETSY TIMMER
Betsy Timmer’s Dressed exhibition is striking. Simultaneously soft yet harsh, inviting yet off-putting. The work, of which the above photo shows only a portion (I didn’t have my camera with me during my initial gallery visit, so I took this image from the Arts Incubator Flickr stream) capitalizes on the ...