Arnaud Loumeau leaves no part of his images untouched by their medium, as his col­or­ful works lit­er­ally cover every inch of the com­po­si­tion. There is a cer­tain amount of anix­ety I get from Arnaud’s works — the forms, with their jagged edges, seem to con­jure the idea that there is an urgency or a threat ...

Letha Wilson’s photo sculp­tures are a com­bi­na­tion of C-Print pho­tog­ra­phy and other ele­ments such as cement, joint com­pound, and wood. Letha cre­ate pieces that are steeped in mul­ti­ple real­i­ties, and a chal­lenge on pho­tog­ra­phy offers. She presents a real place in her pho­tographs (as it actu­ally exists, but we are not there), then alters what ...

I am falling in love with Char­lie Immer’s work. It is both beau­ti­ful and grotesque, vibrant yet a sin­is­ter (in a really non-threatening way). I am con­tin­u­ally get­ting lost in the rich details of his paint­ings, which are mostly oil on panel. First image via his blog, the rest via his web­site. ...

Ian Car­pen­ter is a painter out of Brook­lyn, New York. His work uti­lizes large fields of color cou­pled with smaller details. Imag­i­nary land­scapes float in an ethe­real abyss. Art Muse recently posted a print of his paint­ing,Teng­boche for sale: All images via his blog/website. ...

This past Sat­ur­day, I was in NYC and stopped by a num­ber of gal­leries in Chelsea. One of gallery in par­tic­u­lar was Freight + Vol­ume, where artist Kris­ten Schiele’s work is cur­rently on view. The exhi­bi­tion, Beyond the Rocks is a show com­prised of painted oil on board, silkscreen, and transfers. What ini­tially struck me ...

A cou­ple of nights ago, I almost uncon­trol­lably kept draw­ing vases and decanters. Dur­ing this act, I was reminded of the work of Aimee Lusty, whom I had writ­ten about on Brown Paper Bag nearly a year ago. I loved her arti­facts, using vases and other sim­i­lar forms that ref­er­ence a given period of time. In ...

Minia­tures have reen­tered my orbit over the past sev­eral months, and I’ve espe­cially taken notice of Sabine Timm’s minia­ture work since that time. I have writ­ten about my love for Sabine Timm’s Flickr before. It is updated fre­quently and I am often envi­ous of how she views the world. This can most def­i­nitely be said for the ...

Joseph Parra, an artist resid­ing in Bal­ti­more (and stu­dent at MICA, might I add) cre­ates por­traits with the cavet that not all of the sub­ject is revealed. Accord­ing to Joseph: There is an innate desire to repli­cate an indi­vid­ual through artis­tic pro­duc­tion. Tra­di­tion­ally, as an artist works to ren­der the human fig­ure in any medium, ...

Carla Barth is an artist I fea­tured long ago and still keep up with her work. Perus­ing my Flickr, my eye was caught with these pieces: Carla’s work stems around rela­tion­ships, with her char­ac­ters in posi­tions that sug­gest an inti­mate part­ner­ship with a cer­tain level of uncanniness. All images via her Flickr. Check out her ...

Last week in my posts I explored quite a bit about stroke — fea­tur­ing artists that employed a con­fi­dent and direct stroke that echos through­out their work. Jen­nifer Hen­nesy, a graphic designer and artist has work in the same vein. Her projects, draw­ings, and even type­faces employ a line and shapes that evoke a care­free ...