If you fol­low my tweets at all, you might have known that I ven­tured to New York City this week­end, largely to check out the Museum of Art and Design. It was the last week­end for their exhi­bi­tion, Slash: Paper Under the Knife. Slash rec­og­nized that paper, while a con­ven­tional and abun­dant resource, is quickly ...

Fupete is an Ital­ian artist and illus­tra­tor whose work dons not only the gallery, but bill­boards, print design, and prod­ucts (likes shoes!). Fupete’s work is expres­sive and raw, and some­times out of con­trol. He incor­po­rates drip­ping paint, choppy mark-making, and solemn faces to give his work feel­ing. I often get the sense of chaos with ...

 Ryan Bub­nis is an artist liv­ing and work­ing in Port­land, Ore­gon.  His vibrant, abstracted works have both com­mer­cial and gallery appeal. Ryan’s work is a com­ment on the human con­di­tion. His view of human­ity is an opti­mistic one; the char­ac­ters in his works are often smil­ing and good nature. Even when a fig­ure is frown­ing, Ryan’s col­or­ing ...

Shane Hoff­man has installed a pretty incred­i­ble instal­la­tion. Accord­ing to his Flickr, it took him four months to install, with help from his mother. The scene Shane has set up is rather idyl­lic; there are green trees, col­or­ful tulips, and clouds in the blue sky. Within this set­ting, there is a large red bird in ...

Car­rie Mar­ill is a painter whose series Visual Aides has recently caught my attention. Visual Aides has an inter­est­ing con­cept: Dur­ing a trip to France, Car­rie came upon didac­tic draw­ings from the 1950’s describ­ing dif­fer­ent aspects of the world. She col­lected these, scanned them, and repro­duced the images, updat­ing them for the cur­rent day. Car­rie ...

I really like sto­ries and poetry. It’s what helps drive my love for illus­tra­tion — the fur­ther inter­pre­ta­tion of lan­guage and the writ­ten word. Jim Houser is an artist/illustrator using poetry to drive him images, cre­at­ing an almost quilt of typog­ra­phy, sym­bols, and design. I move through Jim’s work almost like a maze, with poetry ...