some interesting cats from the south of Spain wrote into tell us about their new collective called Coagulo (blood clot). Very nice looking blog, art and photos, clean shapes and messy tints. All-round cool aesthetic. Looking forward to digesting Coagulo’s adventures.
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big congratulations to Maggie Marsek and Rob Rhyne. These guys are getting hitched this weekend and Quality Peoples would like to wish them well on the long, strange, wonderful journey that is the institution called “marriage”. we love you guys.
Ze Frog & Toad is a traveling exhibition of new artwork by Nicholas Chalmers. With this show Chalmers challenges the conventional gallery space by exhibiting his latest works in the back truck modified to be a gallery space. The truck will also be a means of transport and accommodation for the artist and his friends [...]
a selection of hyper photorealistic paintings from Alyssa Monks. Love her use of water as an abstraction layer: Monks’s work explores narrative figuration. Currently she is playing with the tension between abstraction and realism in the same work, using different filters to visually distort and disintegrate the body. In this shallow painted space, the subject [...]
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Los Angeles isn’t what I thought it would be. I guess I don’t really remember now what I expected when I moved here six years ago. But I knew better than to believe the movies. Still, you can’t help but glean at least an idea of a place from what you see on the screen. [...]
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wishing our boyz (and girlz) back east some tasty one’s. pg rip it up.