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Present: Collages by Ivica Capan

Ivica Capan

Allegory (detail) - Ivica Capan

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The South as a Home as an Animal

Marshall Blevins

Marshall Blevins

Artist's statement: Southern artist and photographer, making it up as I go along. Struggled through art school but survived, not sure which direction to go in, but certain and rooted in bayou country. … [Read more...]

Too Dee: Drawings by Nathan Pietrykowski

Nathan Pietrykowski

Folly and Fortune (detail) - Nathan Pietrykowski

Drawing is my magical power. It allows me to reexamine the past, foretell the future or travel to places unseen. In my current body of work, I have invented an imaginary universe to explore creation. … [Read more...]

Happy New Year from Elize & Rik Lina!

Rik Lina

2015 Rik & Elize Lina

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Architecture, Money, Graffiti and Birds

Richard Risemberg

Twick ICP San Francisco Graffiti Art / Photo credit: anarchosyn https://www.flickr.com/photos/24293932@N00/3360220967/

Where you would not have your own [child] live, and develop, and gather to itself knowledge of life and the things of life, is not a fit place for the [children] of other men to live, and develop, and … [Read more...]

re-blues 11 series

bruno neiva

-blue 11 no. 2 (detail) by bruno neiva

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PARCELS, a text art exhibition by bruno neiva

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Parcels - bruno neiva

You are kindly invited to attend to PARCELS, a text art exhibition held by bruno neiva at Casa Museo Casares Quiroga, 12, Panaderas St., in A Coruña, Spain, from 2nd to 28th September 2014. PARCELS … [Read more...]

Six collages by Adrian Jugaru

Adrian Jugaru

Hush Now Little Baby (detail) - Adrian Jugaru

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elegy by bruno neiva

bruno neiva

Alain Delon as Jef Costello

elegy (in memory of victor esteban celeiro) noir coffee spilled over the newspaper we talked for hours, jobless hours about borders, coups and the icelandic landscape jef costello was … [Read more...]

Saint Celluloid: self-portraits by Kalliope Amorphous

Kalliope Amorphous

Silver (detail) - Kalliope Amorphous

Artist's Statement: Saint Celluloid is a series of self-portraits exploring both the vulnerability and immortality of the film star as well as the potentially oppressive and regressive culture of … [Read more...]

Collages by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

Kathmandu (detail) by Carlyle Baker

Artist's Statement: we are here to go we had to do what we did or we couldn't do it. … [Read more...]

Diorama: Photographs by Ido Abramsohn

Ido Abramsohn

Artist's Statement Models of Israeli soldiers and Palestinian insurgents and civilians were photographed and enlarged to human size. The new scale of the models casts the original meaning of the … [Read more...]

Book Review – Dreams before Extinction by Naeemeh Naeemaei

Richard Marcus

Dreams before Extinction by Naeemeh Naeemaei

It's hard for us in the West not to have misconceptions of what life is like in countries where our perceptions are shaped entirely by what we read in the media. This is especially true of those … [Read more...]

I’m For an Art

Alec Clayton

bar via http://www.sxc.hu/profile/xramnet

1982 SoHo Painting can be an evil mistress. She can love you tender and she can love you raunchy, and she can rip your guts apart. When you put that last stroke on your canvas and you know … [Read more...]

7 Abstract Paintings by Alec Clayton

Alec Clayton

Dervish (detail) by Alec Clayton

Artist's Statement: These are abstract paintings through which I have attempted to capture the feel, but not necessarily the look, of movement of animals and people in nature, combining the gestures … [Read more...]

Shadows: Art by Anthony Flynn

Anthony Flynn

Shadowplay II by Anthony Flynn (detail)

Artist's statement: Every action leaves an imprint. In the modern world of technology, these shadows can be permanent. … [Read more...]

David Handley interviews Paul Rogers about his work & the On the Road illustrations

David Handley

On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

Chances are that if I said the names Sal Paradise, Dean Moriarty or Carlo Marx that you would already know a couple of things about them. You’d know that I was talking about the generation defining … [Read more...]

Taxidermy

Dana Stirling

Dana Stirling - Taxidermy 2 (detail)

Artist's statement: We regularly use taxidermy of insects in order to define, categorize and understand them. With all this great variety of insects, people are still able to decide whether they're … [Read more...]

Rik Lina Art Exhbition: Hurracan

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Rik Lina - Hurracan - Exhibtion

RIK LINA Art Exhibition: HURRACAN location KUNSTKERK Prinseneiland 89 - 1013 LM Amsterdam opening Friday, November 29, 5pm - 8pm. The exhibition will be opened by Peter van de Heijden. at … [Read more...]

Seven Artworks by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

Collage by Gloria Avner

For years Gloria Avner has explored and taught ancient batik painting techniques using ink, wax, and watercolor on delicate Ginwashi ricepaper. Her collages enter a different realm, often focusing on … [Read more...]

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