A selection of sketch book pages and paintings from recent Santa Barbara arrival Maddie J. Beautiful work. Maddie also curates the photography blog The Magic Bus. My personal favorite of her illustrations “my tear ducts are in my heart”:
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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a selection of work from the Inner Space series by Brandi Strickland. beautiful collage work. the names of her pieces are almost as great as the work themselves.
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Jay Howell’s wave tagger series plus one more. Howell has a show up in the PDX at Together Gallery in September. (via Huh Mag)
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Graphic designer, typographer, letterpress printmaker and teacher, Alan Kitching is internationally renowned for his expressive use of letterpress type, process and materials in creating typographic designs for publishing, advertising and his own limited edition prints and ‘Broadside’ publications.