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 ...

I love the new paint­ings by Jeremy Tin­der, com­pleted for his solo show (com­ing up, I pre­sume?). His block char­ac­ters, with their hulk­ing fig­ures and hol­low insides, are still emo­tional, emit­ting joy and sor­row. I care about them and their well-being. Jeremy also is good at like­nesses, with much of his work a play on ...

Max-O-Matic, aka Máx­imo Tuja, is a col­lage artist work­ing to cre­ate slick, quasi-minimalist pieces pair­ing color with vin­tage imagery. My favorite of his port­fo­lio includes the Cream series, which, accord­ing to Max, was cre­ated “…dur­ing three fever­ish sum­mer nights. Obvi­ous links to hot, beach, sur­real crea­tures and pop lyrics…” They are lively, strange, and fresh. All ...

Chad Wys is an artist school­ing and work­ing in Illi­nois. His recent work looks at the nature of the object and the the­o­ret­i­cal weight it car­ries. From his artist statement: A major strand through­out much of my work, beyond the broader inquir­ers into what art means socially, is the notion of object: object own­er­ship, objec­ti­fi­ca­tion ...

Kyle James Dunn is a senior at MICA and sent me some of his work, which includes both draw­ing and sculp­tures. The sculp­tures include intri­cate plasma-cut steel, which is stun­ning. Kyle has an upcom­ing solo exhi­bi­tion, Because It Is Bit­ter, in Bal­ti­more in Jan­u­ary, and he has some words about his own work: I am inter­ested ...

I’ve been look­ing at the com­bined efforts of Nelio and THTF, an artist and artist col­lec­tive, respec­tively, who have pro­duced an exhib­tion, Tran­si­tion, that exists both inside and out. From Gallery All-Over: For this project, they will try to com­bine these two pro­ce­dures. With a facil­ity that will take shape in the gallery Shared fla­vors ...

When view­ing Denise Schatz’s web­site, her works and projects are bro­ken down indi­vid­u­ally. Look­ing at the con­tent and titles, it is clear that she really relates and expresses her view of the world through the act of record­ing and orga­ni­za­tion into books, libraries, and other visual histories. All images via her web­site. Pic­ture Library Apart­ment ...

I fol­low OCW’s Tum­blr, and I found the work of Malin Gabriella Nordin through it. Her web­site, divided by years and sub­ject mat­ter. There is an explo­ration of shapes and col­lages yet very cohe­sive. A smat­ter­ing of her work is below. The stone or shape sim­i­lar to it is very present in Malin’s work. Some­times lit­er­ally, ...

There is a cer­tain amount of joy that I get from old but newly manip­u­lated pho­tographs, espe­cially the ones that Mario Zoots has used. Glam­our shots and school por­traits can be so silly (did any­one have a back­ground with LASERS in it?) so I enjoy the sub­ver­sive nature of what Mario is doing. It is ...