Andrew Spear uses colored pencil to dazzling effect, creating arresting and intimate portraits that invite the viewer into moments of introspection, exultation and allure.
Archive for: "Arts"
Paintings by Yumiko Kayukawa
Yumiko Kayukawa is a painter based in Seattle, originally from Hokkaido, Japan. Her art draws influence from American pop culture as well as traditional Japanese motifs. Themes of danger, death and renewal are woven throughout her colorful works, but a playful, lighthearted sensibility is prevalent as well…
Bleeding into Reality: 3D Relief Paintings by Shaka
French street artist and relief painter Shaka incorporates 3D into his works for an effect that is at once breathtaking and unsettling.
Brush Footwear by Benjamin Smith
Ben Smith started Brush Footwear with the idea of fusing the traditional arts with the art of fashion. His striking, custom sneaker designs “provide patrons the unique experience of wearing provocative and inspiring artwork in their daily lives.”
Illustrations by Tabitha Bianca Brown
Tabitha Bianca Brown is a Chicago-based illustrator who describes her style as “a hybrid of 70s soul funk, noir, and minimalism.”
Monster Skin Rug by Joshua Ben Longo
I’m loving this “Monster Skin Rug” by Joshua Ben Longo. Also available in yeti-white!
Joanna Mulder “Joannarchy” Prints
Joanna Mulder’s Joannarchy art prints feature a pantheon of trippy, macabre and gleefully weird characters, many rendered in eye-popping lysergic hues.
Garbage Pail Kids-Inspired Art @ Gallery 1988
Gallery 1988 continues their winning streak with another pop culture-themed art show, this time based around 80’s gross-out phenomenon the Garbage Pail Kids.
Javier Piñón: Collage Art
Javier Piñón uses clippings from old magazines and books to create worlds that are both fantastic and familiar, epic yet incredibly intimate.
Ghostdogs by Eva Funderburgh
Eva Funderburgh has created an installation of running “Ghostdogs” in an empty storefront of the Ballard Neighborhood of Seattle. The 17 sculptures took three weeks of work and 240 square feet of chicken wire to create.
Florence Gidez: Dwellings
Florence Gidez is an artist and printmaker based in Brooklyn, originally from Vermont. I’m particularly fond of the ramshackle dwellings she depicts in some of her prints, structures that are somehow endearing as they lean and crumble into their wild, occasionally surreal surroundings.
Nick Gentry: Floppy Disk Portraits
London-based artist Nick Gentry uses old floppy disks as a canvas in his painted portraits, in doing so exploring humanity’s ongoing integration with technology and the issues of identity, life cycles and waste culture inherent within.
