STUFF I LIKE
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fairy tale
oil and others on canvas
60x80cm
2013
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“Social Fabric”, 2013
By: KAI KORSMO….
*Just happened to stop by the senior thesis exhibition for some of the students from The ...
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Various tape installations by Megan Geckler
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Nikos Gyftakis
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FACE PAINTED BY DEIDRE BUT-HUSAIM
Artist Deidre But-Husaim born a twin. Lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.
“Popular culture is both the prolific producer and voracious consumer of the beauty myth and its heroes and heroines, who provide creative fodder for Deidre But-Husaim. Her edgy painted portraits of insouciant youths offer a curious combination of knowing innocence. Importantly, But-Husaims adornments are not the ubiquitous stock standard tattoos that currently abound in contemporary culture, but rather elaborate baroque and rococo embellishments of the artists creation, such as exquisite chintzy floral vines and delicate birds.” - Alison Kubler (read)
ACRYLIC PAINT ON WALL BY LISA BECK
New York, Brooklyn-based artist Lisa Beck - My work has always been driven by certain preoccupations and obsessions, that can be seen as divided between the particular and the universal. My most prevalent motif has been the circle in all its forms and references. Atoms, dots, spheres, solids, voids, cells, selves, stars, eternity, emptiness- it’s amazing how much can attach to this form. Often, they are all in a room at once, creating my own universe, and allowing worlds to collide. I always want to acknowledge that, to say, “This is what I’ve come up with, but there are a million other ways this could exist.” (Interview)
Artist - Geoffrey Johnson
Geoffrey is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy, the oldest teaching and collecting institute in the U.S. Geof’s work was featured in New American Paintings in 1998 and he is a past winner of the Morris Blackburn Landscape Prize as well as numerous other awards.
Artist - Jean-Marc Calvet
There’s nothing we like better than a “suffering artist” myth, but Jean-Marc Calvet’s story is the opposite: art put an end to his suffering. And it’s not a myth, either. Painting literally saved Calvet’s life, as he recalls in an astonishing new documentary, Calvet, by British director Dominic Allan. Having lived an eventful life as a bent cop, underworld bodyguard, criminal fugitive, nightclub impresario and out-of-control drug addict, Calvet eventually hit rock bottom. He holed up alone for three months in his Nicaraguan villa with nothing but drugs (heroine, crack, alcohol, you name it) and paranoid delusions for company.
