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Kill Pixie (Mark Whalen) Kills It — Literally — With Bubblegum Colors.

Bubblegum colors like baby pink and baby blue? Check. Images of torture, death, and sadism? Check. Leave it to Los Angeles artist Kill Pixie, or Mark Whalen (formerly of Sydney, Australia) to put hooded madmen in settings rife with geometric shapes and patterns. Pieces like Group Sessions (left) and Ill Do Anything (right) might seem...Read...

Jul 31

by Vivian Hua

Skinner‘s Solo Show At The 111 Minna In San Francisco!

With a style that embraces creatures as well as tribal influences and sophisticated patterns, Skinner is an artist who truly knows his style, yet never becomes boring. Skinner’s pieces, which feature everything from helmeted guards to reptilian creatures and evil castles with faces, might remind you of a nerd’s favorite fantasy book by description, but...Read...

May 28

by Vivian Hua

Group Drawing Show At Catherine Person Gallery.

Starting tomorrow at the Catherine Person Gallery is a group show called “High Rise,” featuring the most basic of artistic types — drawings. Joseph Pentheroudakis painstakingly uses dots of pen and sumi ink to create this abstract structure. In Untitled (080501), Barry Maxwell uses graphite and acrylic inks to create a layered, geode-type structure on...Read...

Apr 1

by Vivian Hua

Artist Jane Lackey Maps Out Conversations.

On first glance, it might be easy to write off the work of Seattle artist Jane Lackey as mumbo-jumbo, but when one studies the materials she uses, her interests in neuroscience, genetics, and speech patterns, pieces like those from the above series, Survey, seem to make a bit more sense. Using paint, tape, and stickers,...Read...

Feb 28

by Vivian Hua

Yip-Yip Band Interview

"It's always been a mix of goofy influences." -- Brian Esser

Jan 12

by Matthew Carter

Maquinas & Almas, Digital Arts and New Mediums at the Reina Sofia

Contemporary art really gets a bad rap sometimes. A canvas painted solid blue or an collage of abstract shapes might catch the eye of some, but it simply can’t be understood by everyone. Maquinas & Almas, Arte Digital Y Nuevos Medios (Machines & Souls, Digital Art and New Mediums) is a new temporary art exhibition...Read...

Sep 22

by Vivian Hua

Artopia in Georgetown Strikes Again, Part 2

Dan Corson‘s Spatial Matrix. Spatial matrixes are nothing new — I saw one at another gallery just a couple days ago — but this one is a little unique. It was an installation at the Georgetown brewery’s former “Engine Room”; clear indigo panels were put up over the windows, and steel cables ran from the...Read...

Jun 30

by Vivian Hua