Michael Velli­quette has cre­ated an aston­ish­ing paper world. It is bright, impres­sive in size, and extremely detailed. The metic­u­lous­ness in his work is unmatched of any­thing I’ve really seen. The way that Michael’s pieces hang on the wall remind me of masks and almost pieces of a totem pole. The amount of paper actu­ally cut ...

Chris­tine Buck­ton Till­man is an artist whose ethe­real draw­ings are both free-flowing and cal­cu­lated at the same time. A large part of Christine’s draw­ing port­fo­lio is of a grid sys­tem of which she uses those squares to make an image that looks slightly pix­e­lated from up close, but whose shape makes more sense once you take ...

Julianna Swaney is an artist who cre­ates won­der­ful draw­ings and fan­tas­ti­cal scenes of ani­mals and humans, focus­ing on their rela­tion­ship between and nature. Julianna’s work is some­what haunt­ing, as the char­ac­ters in her nar­ra­tives deal with things that can’t be explained, and inter­act with the unknown. Her work is bro­ken up into series, my favorite ...

Jesse Draxler is an artist work­ing in col­lage, as well as some­one that par­tic­i­pates in artist col­lec­tives. Per­haps most impor­tantly of all, he hails from the Mid­west (Min­nesota), like myself. I kid about that last part. But, in all seri­ous­ness, I really enjoy Jesse’s work. It is a nice com­bi­na­tion of cut paper, draw­ing, and ...

Remem­ber last week when I wrote about Lines and Shapes? Well, Takashi Iwasaki is an artist I really enjoyed after spend­ing some time with that site. Admit­tedly, I don’t look at a lot of Japan­ese art, but I love the sen­si­bil­i­ties that are going on within Takashi’s work. His draw­ings and embroi­dery employ shapes that have ...

Lines and Shapes is an inde­pen­dent design col­lec­tive with a rotat­ing group of artist. Each issue is curated by Maria Vettese and Lena Cor­win. Lines and Shapes works like this: each issue of Artist Series, artists that are involved in the book get a word, or a phrase — a jump­ing off point. They then ...

Ian Caulkett is a multi-facet artist liv­ing in Lon­don. He makes won­der­ful col­lages and also par­tic­i­pates in a num­ber of dif­fer­ent projects. Ian uses por­tions of images to cre­ate a cohe­sive image, and also uses as a device for ambi­gu­ity and con­fu­sion. He pairs words with images, and not always do they cor­re­spond with each ...

Let’s start Fri­day off with one of my favorite artists. Amy Cut­ler is a painter of exquis­ite gouache paint­ings. Her work is about women, and through it, Amy cre­ates a slightly askew uni­verse for these women to live in. Her work is inspired by fairy tales, dreams, sur­re­al­ism, and folk art. Amy’s nar­ra­tives leave her sub­jects ...

I really enjoy the work of Lore Smol­ders, but I had the hard­est time find­ing any work by her out­side of see­ing her con­tri­bu­tion to a Rotopol Press show. Lore uses graphite and her style has a heavy hand to it. There is a lot of cer­tainty to her lines, and they’ve made the work ...

Another col­lage artist today! I’ve really been inter­ested in look­ing at abstract col­lages, and Kelly Lynn Jones has work that I’ve been fol­low­ing for awhile. I spend a lot of time with Kelly’s paint­ing on paper, but she also has some very nice sculp­ture and instal­la­tion work. Like Anthony Zinonos, she has a min­i­mal­ist approach ...