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Becky Holladay’s Illustrated Dictionary Pages.

Dictionary pages certainly have their musty old charms! From their familiar smells to their singular text arrangements, their surfaces are perfect for artists like Becky Holladay to build off of with colorful illustrations. These are from her series of Pen&Inc pieces.

Feb 5

by Vivian Hua

An Invitation To Sleep At Golden Rule Gallery

A bit of short notice on this one, as this show goes on in T-minus a couple hours, for the SE neighborhood First Friday Art Walk in Portland. However it’s totally worth writing about, the most interesting part actually taking place not today, but throughout the course of the month… Opening tonight at Golden Rule...Read...

Feb 4

by Vivian Hua

Joseph Cornell’s Assembled Boxes Of Surreal Quality.

Unlike most of th stuff posted on this blog, this is an old thing. Joseph Cornell was of a rare breed of American surrealist artist who grew up during the Great Depression. Inspired by Max Ernst’s amazing surrealist collage book, la Femme 100 tetes (100 Headless Women) — take a look at 165 pages of...Read...

Feb 4

by Vivian Hua

Obsessive Repulsive With Skinner, Ryan Bubnis, Jesse Reno

Flatcolor Gallery does an ace thing once again, with Obsessive Repulsive, curated by Ryan Bubnis! Bubnis, alongside Jesse Reno and Skinner, will be displaying new works that are simultaneously adorable and depressing/brutal, and the freedom each of them has when creating new forms is evident. Check out some images from the show below… ryan bubnis...Read...

Feb 3

by Vivian Hua

Gnarled, Hellish Forms, From Katie Brookes

Herein lies the works of London-based artist Katie Brookes, who creates gently-crafted works of intense subject matter! First and foremost, a fair warning: the thin lines of her imagery seem better-suited for an etching on a copper plate, to be studied in real life, than it does for viewing on a digital medium, at low...Read...

Feb 2

by Vivian Hua

Call For Entries: Tell The World About The Soundtrack Of Your Life.

This is just a quick news post telling you! — lowly you! — to submit a written transcription of your aural memory to Stijn Demeulenaere‘s Soundtracks project. The project is perhaps the most abstract of abstract, inviting participants to recall notable sound memories, replay it in their heads, and subsequently write out a description of...Read...

Feb 1

by Vivian Hua

Filippa Barkman Does Hair… Grotesquely.

When I look at artwork by artist Filippa Barkman, there’s just about one thing I see. That thing is hair — mounds and mounds of it. Whether by way of conjoined twin wolves melting into a mass or a hollow-eyed ghost of a girl, pieces from Barkman’s latest series, In Limbo, draw a viewer immediately...Read...

Feb 1

by Vivian Hua

4-ev-ah

The plants here come from a really great botanicals book that I got at Powell’s last week.

Jan 29

by Rachel Hays

Cold Comfort: Richard Bassett & Chris Crites At Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco.

Jack Fischer Gallery does it again for their next art opening — which is TONIGHT — by bringing in Richard Bassett and Chris Crites to present new paintings. Entitled Cold Comfort, the show seems centered around a general idea of violence and crime, with guns playing a central role. Chris Crites brings his intricately-detailed illustrations...Read...

Jan 29

by Vivian Hua

Support Our New Mystics Pals — No Touching Ground, NKO & Dan Hawkins

Seattle street artists No Touching Ground, NKO, and Dan Hawkins crafted a tomb project last year, which was a “case study in the archeology of memory.” CLICK HERE TO READ JEN GRAVES’ ARTICLE IN THE STRANGER ABOUT THE PROJECT. That particular project was a bit hidden to the public, but the three artists now want...Read...

Jan 28

by Vivian Hua