****Will Bryant conducted this rad interview last week while I was in SF, check it out****
Chad Kouri is a maker of fine things, a freelancing machine, and a dandy person. You can almost always find him blogging over at The Post Family, screen printing, letter pressing, doodling, and art directing! (He's the man behind Margin Detail). Just recently I had a cyber sit down with this cool fellow.
Keep on clicking and check out this bearded man's work & words...
I LOVE MARIO HUGO...there I said it and the internet knows it! I think his work is prolific and breath taking. Hugo has a very diverse, face melting portfolio. (I do grow impatient waiting for the images to load, but it's well worth the brief wait...they're so large and tasty! Please click on the images to view them larger on his site)
His spec work for Beck has been blazed across the web and every single time I see it I'm blown away. (Some of my favorites of the series.)
With Great Ceremony
Margot is a talented lady blogging, thinking, creating, and living Chicago. She has a very nice blog/portfolio site called Pitch Design Union, but she is known to me as the Ampersand lady(for reasons you will soon know). Margot's design work is eye catchingly clean, tasteful, and charming. You can see some of her work below.
As my last post as a guest blogger, I wanted to share a sneak preview of my studio mate Vanessa Irzyk's solo show to mass a crowd opening at the Colo-Colo Gallery in New Bedford MA tonight from 6-8 p.m. Meighan posted about Vanessa's work previously after checking out our studio. The show consists of 79 2"x2" paintings on wood, each placed on their own shelf. It should be pretty awesome.
Thanks for checking out the posts!
Today I wanted to share some images from my buddy Anthony Sobiech. Anthony's work was featured in the experimental publication Apenest Volume 2 last year, and he'll be showing work this May along with Laura Makinen and I at the FPAC Gallery. He often works from photographs and creates haunting images steeped in memory. I love how he's really able to show the passage of time using paint. Anthony's website is in the works but he can be reached at soulkane13@aol.com.
Kevin Hooyman’s labyrinthine website is one of my favorite artist's sites. I have run into his work in real life a few times, and I am always stopped in my tracks and really refreshed by what he is doing. This fall, he had a show at Proof Gallery, which is down the hall from my studio. It included delicately colored works on paper, pencil drawings, and some larger-than-life personified animal sculptures. Looking at his work, I can’t help but think of William Steig who was one of my favorite children’s illustrators growing up. Steig's characters always seemed so dignified and wise. Kevin’s creatures have a similar gravity and serenity alongside the humor and fantasy he incorporates in the work (not to mention the crazy-detailed landscapes).
I recently came across the work of Arizona artist Bryan Crow via the art blog The Lumper. I really dig his layered, expressive mixed media pieces. According to his statement, an important aspect of his process is creating everyday, and it's refreshing to find an artist for whom the process isn't just the means to an end. These are roll-up-your sleeves and take risks paintings, and I can't help wanting to grab a paintbrush and get to work whenever I look them over.
Olivia Lundberg's visceral paintings are some of my favorite. Her work consists primarily of two series both sprung from vintage National Geographic source material. Her monochromatic ink drawings lift figures and compositions from the photographs in a direct way, and her gestural oils on panels investigate the alien and sexual undercurrents of such documents. Both series are definitely worth checking out as well as her interview with neotericART.
To be honest, I cannot wrap my head around what it would take to make a sculpture. Not only are there two dimensional issues to address, artists must also then grapple with gravity and the tricky disconnect between the materials used and the larger representation in space. An artist who is way too successful at meeting these challenges is my buddy Ryan Crowley. His sculptures are like pop culture regurgitations. Cartoon clichés, corny logos, and American food products are processed into perverse ideological hybrids. I like Ryan’s work because it’s like encountering an inside joke you didn’t realize you were part of. They’re nostalgic, critical, and a bit loony all at once.
Ryan’s in the process of cooking up a website, but he can be reached at ryan.crowley@massart.edu. His sculpture, Boot, can also be found in the Tower Lobby at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Check it out!
Hello! This is Corey Corcoran and first off, I'd like to say how cool it is to be guest blogging here for the next couple of days. Although I do a fair share of internet art gazing, having to sit down and figure out some of my biggest art crushes has definitely put some new brain muscles to work. The artists I've come up with whether I know them or not are people who I think are making crazy important things. Let me know what you think...
First up is Maya Bloch out of Tel Aviv. Her flickr page is like a force of nature and worth constant checking-in. To me, her work is that hit-you-over-the-head kind of art that makes you wonder why this artist's name isn't always on the tip of your tongue. One of the most appealing aspects to her work are the dreamy, timeless spaces they inhabit. Many of her pieces feel like memories or old photographs but the figures engage with the viewer in what feels like very contemporary ways. Maya is able to produce an astounding range of effects with few materials. As someone who is guilty of using the whole box of crayons whenever making a picture, I look to her work for a reminder that complex, resonate imagery can be made with just a pencil and eraser.
fieldguided is a creative collaboration between the sweetest toronto couple, anabela and geoff. i've been a fan of anabela's flickr for many months and was so excited when i realized that there was an etsy shop to go along!
they create a range of wonderful items - hand colored mugs (that can be customized!), fabric participant awards, handmade men's neckties (also customizable), embroideries, drawings.. among many others! anabela and geoff are basically a huge melting pot of creative greatness that never ceases to amaze me.
you can visit their etsy shop to see what they currently have in stock or keep up with them through their blog. they are definitely a crafty couple to keep your eyes on!
Isomorphs is an amazing creation by the charming Kate Moross. Under the Isomorph brand she art directs packaging, merchandise, branding, and prints VINYL!
Iso has releases from Cutting Pink With Knives, Hearts Revolution, Midnight Juggernauts, and Apes & Androids. Recent tees have been designed for Telepathe and Simian Mobile Disco.
Check out the finger lickin' good packaging!!!
And gaze at these poppin' tee designs that would cover up my barren chest real nice....
You can snag these items in her shop. I wear a Medium and will gladly provide you with my mailing address, wink wink.
