Alex DaCorte uses mate­ri­als within pop­u­lar cul­ture and turns them over on their head. Some­times, quite lit­er­ally, as he cov­ers them in glue, tape, paint, resin, and more. It trans­forms them into grotesque sculp­tures that are both amus­ing and cynical. All images via his web­site. ...

Infus­ing the sea into many of her paint­ings, Fuco Ueda’s sur­real works are beau­ti­ful in their color and han­dling. There seems to be a visual splen­dor that Fuco is tap­ping into, imply­ing that at times, the nat­ural beauty of the set­ting sun and the blues of the ocean have this dizzy­ing power to ren­der us ...

I was blown away by the draw­ings of Henry St. John Newell upon first view. The long name is fit­ting for his draw­ings, which are extremely detailed (at times, per­haps over?) and beg care­ful examination. Henry calls his each of his works a “Mys­ti­cal Inquiry,” and are loaded with pat­terns and sym­bols, nau­ti­cal, spir­i­tual, among ...

By now you’ve heard of Boooooom’s Remake project, yes? If not, it is recre­at­ing a famous work of art using pho­tog­ra­phy. Sounds fairly sim­ple, ref­er­enc­ing clas­sic art, but there are so many ways you can take the project! It’s won­der­ful to see all of the dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tions. Jeff from Booooooom had me pick some of ...

Upon first glance, there is a cer­tain level of banal­ity to Ryan Stew­art Nault’s work. With the muted col­ors and sparse com­po­si­tions, it is worth look­ing a lit­tle longer to con­tem­plate the still lifes he’s painted. The objects place­ment seem extremely delib­er­ate, and res­onate as some­thing that can exist as both a paint­ing and site-specific ...

I love tex­tures, and that is a large part why I am so attracted to col­lage and hand crafted work. Paper just feels so good! The work of Eva Ver­meiren uses papers, line, brush strokes, and more to cre­ate non-representational pieces that study the mar­riage of line and paper. All images via her Flickr. Check out ...

Yes, I know I tweeted about Pip and Pop yes­ter­day, and that their show might be old news to some of you now, but it isn’t to me! Thanks to Amy for Face­book­ing this. I love the idea of entire piece on the floor — this minia­ture world that the viewer must crouch down to take ...

I wish I could attend all of the exhi­bi­tions that I wanted. Unfor­tu­nately, I am in Bal­ti­more. While con­vienent, its loca­tion does not always make it pos­si­ble to see all that I want. When I learned about the exhi­bi­tion, Monument(al): Mon­u­ment and its Democ­racy Recon­sid­ered that was at the East Van Stu­dio in Van Cou­ver, ...

I’ve always liked Allyson Mell­berg Taylor’s draw­ings, with their beau­ti­ful grotesque­ness. Below, some recent draw­ings by Allyson. The wilt­ing flora and fauna don’t strike me as sad — they feel lyri­cal and have a sense of their own mortality. Allyson often col­lab­o­rates with her hus­band, Jeremy. For a show at the Together Gallery (titled So ...

Chelsea Wong is an artist liv­ing in San Fran­cisco, draw­ing tigers, jump rop­ing, and peo­ple under spells. She also is a print maker and zine pro­ducer, uti­liz­ing screen print­ing in both areas. Her draw­ings seem light upon first glance, but once you really start to look at them they have a bit of dark­ness to them. ...