Langdon Graves gentle, somewhat off-kilter drawings.
Louie Cordero’s Having Reached Climax at Age 28 … I am a zombie — made of styrofoam, acrylics, and cement, 2006.
Amborama on Flickr.
Michael Kenna’s Quixote’s Giants, Study 2, 1998
Paul Ulrich
Halogen Gallery has paired up with The Greenwood Collective and Urban Light Studios to put together this really fun toy and paintingfinstallation show featuring some notable locals and non-locals. The show, entitled Thought Processor, is a rotating show. Here’s the Seattle round-up:
Untitled by Aaron Jasinki
Untitled by Augie Pagan
Now through March 4th, 2010!
Alright, Chinese New Year has come and gone, but on display now at the Munky King are some Chinese New Year-inspired works, including this one, by Martin Hsu!
About it, Hsu says:
“I wanted to show that Tigers bring kids infinite happiness and vice versa.”
Guess that’s what the outstretched arms are for!
It’s easy for artists to be really sketched out about sending around 300dpi images of their works, because 300dpi is print quality; anyone who gets their hands on a 300dpi image can print a copy of an artist’s work.
Luckily for art lovers, Christopher Davison is not too concerned with this issue. In fact, he welcomes it. As of yesterday, he made this particular piece from his Disasters Are People Too series. Check it:
Sculpture Garden (Study Alone) — DOWNLOAD HERE
And here is an older piece:
Christ’s Descent Into Hell — DOWNLOAD HERE
Davison has 18 new pieces available on his website as well, if you’re down to take a look!
Artist Mark Mulroney can be extremely crude, with fluids and body parts galore, but that only serves to add character to his fascinating murals and sketchbook illustrations. This particular series of murals below interests me because of their atypical use of shape and space. It’s extremely uncomfortable, but that’s what makes it work. (His website is also very uncomfortable. I’m not sure if it works, but I guess it does, since I’m linking it. Here.)
Jonathan Zawada takes some age-old surrealistic influences and adds some mythical creature all up in them.
Fenk’s photography certainly captures the vibrance of life…
Heather Jansch’s horse might look like the Bodies Exhibit gone animal, but it’s actually made out of driftwood! Thank god!
One of Ray Caesar’s common characters seems to give up the ghost in a glowing, gold leaf-lined kind-of-way.
Huskmelk goes nuts with designs for Michael Jackson-related prints, and this might be our favorite from them.
I dare say this might be bit intense of a graphic to hang on your wall, but that doesn’t mean this Blik Graphic by Hannah Stouffer, entitled Darkest Night, doesn’t really, really rock. It’s almost Escher-ish in its lines… minus the skulls and shadows, of course. Buy that design and more here. (And below is a slightly more commonly appropriate piece available by Stouffer!)
Head over to the Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma tonight for the closing night of Monument, Troy Gua’s current amazing show exploring the effects of war on, well, the human body. There’s also an artist talk going on tonight, which should be interesting. Reception starts at 6:00pm, but though it’s the closing reception, closing night isn’t until March 13th! Be confused!
Gua says:
“This installation is my memorial to loss. I’m not a soldier I have never seen war. How do we reconcile this experience? How do we grieve loss?”
We’re going to save you from all of the Valentine’s Day hearts we just posted, and simply go with some good, neutral, non-love-related art.
Lissy Elle’s most recent works seem to combine fantasy stories and fashion to study the contours of the human body in a fanciful setting. But she’s not all pretty things, either; her older pieces can get quite raw. It seems that she is on a photo-a-day 365-day photo journey, and it’s astounding how far she’s come in that time period. You can go through her Flickr to see the progression.
Below is another recent piece of hers, of which she says:
“My Sunday school teacher once told me when I was little, that she always pictured God as just hands, holding the universe in his palms.”
Stuntkid throws female illustrations into clean, vibrant worlds with gentle linework. Mmm.
Fabulous wood-burning art on paddles, by Onionize.
This is an amazing show poster by Charles Bergquist. It is highly, highly recommended that you visit his website and view his other print works as well as videos of projections he has made.
Photography by Alex MacLean, who takes truly astounding aerial photographs which make us realize we truly underestimate how much we know about our world.
An image by Aurel Schmidt, who doesn’t seem to currently have a website — and frankly, she doesn’t really need one. She’s shown at the Saatchi Gallery, has been featured on Fecal Face, and was at ArtBasel.
Ah, Valentine’s Day — a dreaded holiday for some and the ultimate heart-warming day for others. In either situation, though, viewing some diverse art is a good remedy. Here are some good shows taking place on Friday the 12th, in Portland and Seattle. They’re group shows that show that it’s not just about selfish relationships on Valentine’s Day! Community love’s worth something, too.
Yet another event from Seattle art collective Artifakt
Damager by Grym.
Terror by BeeryMethod.
Lutjanus campechanus by Crystal Barbre. Oil on canvas. 42″ x 72″.
Matroyshka Dolls by iamintricate.
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For the fifth year in a row, the Portland Love Show will be taking place this year at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center (107 SE Washington St.) from 7:00pm to 12:00am.
Here are just some of our favorite pieces showing this year.
Inevitable by BMAC. 16″ x 20″, $100.
Love and Lust Contemplating Their Predicament by Chuck E. Bloom. 14″ x 18″, $950.
Tied by Kindra Crick. Encaustic mixed media. 10″ x 8″, $180.
last of the famous international playboys by John Gajowski. 17″ x 22″, $250.
