Based in Leeds, Leah Durant states that her pri­mary pas­sion is pho­tog­ra­phy, which is melded with print­mak­ing, col­lage, and drawing. In col­laged pieces, Leah’s pho­tog­ra­phy is often non-specific and enlarged to high­light tex­ture. Aes­thet­i­cally, I love the dif­fused nature of her mark-making and pho­tos, which speaks to the larger scope of her work. She writes: ...

The illus­tra­tion and paint­ings of Sarah Williamson are sim­ply won­der­ful, uti­liz­ing a few dif­fer­ent tech­niques to bring forth her visual lan­guage. There is a major empha­sis on the free­dom of media (as she paints with wet-on-wet) and a love the fig­ure and land­scape. Inspired by what’s around her, the Brook­lynite writes: I used to work, ...

I first spoke of the work of Gina Daw­son when I saw it as part of a group show, Boundry Proof, at the Guest Spot Art Space in Bal­ti­more. She cre­ated these amaz­ing minia­ture funeral wreathes made out of paper. The text on the ban­ners were extracted from rejec­tion let­ters, which Gina had embroidered: Check­ing ...

Jenny Harp is an artist liv­ing and work­ing in San Fran­cisco. Her mixed media work is an exam­i­na­tion of our inner work­ings in rela­tion­ship to cul­ture. From her artist statement: My present work stems from ten­sions and com­forts that reflect feel­ings of anx­i­ety, cel­e­bra­tion, power and con­trol and the bound­aries between them. Cul­tur­ally I inves­ti­gate ...

Matt Leines is an artist whose work I have cov­ered here before, and whose work I like very much. His paint­ings (espe­cially the inte­rior scenes) sug­gest an odd future, a prim­i­tive yet mod­ern world ref­er­enc­ing art move­ments past. All images via his web­site. Matt has an Etsy store where he is sell­ing prints, paper dolls, and ...

I’ve only recently begun to learn about cyan­otype, which is a pho­to­graphic print­ing process that cre­ates a cyan-blue print. Pho­to­sen­si­tive solu­tion is applied to a sur­face (such as paper or fab­ric), and left to dry in a dark place. Based on the inten­sity of the ingre­di­ents in a solu­tion, dif­fer­ent tones of blues can be ...

It has been a while since I have talked about the work of Ky Ander­son, but I love it all the same. I enjoy Ky’s use of color, and despite their more muted char­ac­ter­is­tics, they are not mud­dled. And, if they are mud­dled, Ky explains in her state­ment that they are that way by their ...

Since I will miss the recep­tion tomor­row, I took the lib­erty of view­ing Search Engine: Lou Joseph 1998–2012 at the North Ave. Mar­ket on my own. I was blown away by amount of work on the walls, also enjoyed nav­i­gat­ing through the space with the Search Engine Field Guide (avail­able as a pam­phlet upon enter­ing ...

The bright and col­or­ful works of Mis­aki Kawai intrigued and excited me. I wanted to know more about her instal­la­tion, sculp­tures and draw­ings. Via Rove TV, I learned that: Like many other ado­les­cent Japan­ese girls, she [Mis­aki] was influ­enced by west­ern pop cul­ture to a fanat­i­cal degree. She was greatly fas­ci­nated with 60’s fash­ion and ...

Ken Gar­duno has quite a few por­traits on his Flickr account, and I per­son­ally am more attracted to the more off­beat, loosely-defined por­traits. They exper­i­ment with washes and pat­terns, and are not as tightly ren­dered as some of Ken’s other pieces. I like to imag­ine them as a shroud with a life of its own. All ...