Nowa­days, I spend a lot of time with my Instant Net­flix. Lately, I’ve been opt­ing to watch doc­u­men­taries and movies about ser­ial killers and crim­i­nals (but only dur­ing the day! It would nor­mally give me night­mares!). Need­less to say when I saw that Sean Lewis’s illus­tra­tions for his Spring 2011 the­sis show was about crim­i­nals ...

I am blog­ging from phone because my inter­net has been out all day! Hope­fully this issue will be resolved soon and I will be back to reg­u­larly sched­uled pro­gram­ing. There is a stu­dio visit and give­away com­ing to you soon! ...

I’ve men­tioned before that I tend not to go for purely dig­i­tal work, but I love the con­tent of Levi Jacobs’s pieces, so I am more than will­ing to fea­ture them on Brown Paper Bag. Even though Levi’s work is extremely styl­ized, it still has an ele­ment of motion to it. Waft­ing smoke, a noo­dle man, ...

Nik is awe­some. He lives in Bal­ti­more and makes tons of draw­ings. When Nik isn’t draw­ing it’s because he is at Kinkos print­ing a new zine. This hap­pens just about every day. He even set-up a zine-making booth at the Artscape fes­ti­val last year. He rented a big Xerox machine and peo­ple stopped by to ...

Happy Fri­day, every­one! I don’t have much time to blog today as I’m headed to the air­port soon — going to meet up with some of my fam­ily this week­end (and run a race!). Before I go though, how about the work of James Nizam? The beauty, for me, is in the care­ful arrange­ment of ...

I know that these murals are noth­ing new (but new to me!!), but I recently came across the work of Andreas Rag­nar Kas­apis. His paint­ings, which are painted on both wood and on walls, are beau­ti­fully ren­dered. Color is grad­u­ally lay­ered, as is mark mak­ing, and Andreas is not shy to show us how an ...

I met Erica Mahi­nay this past fall at the Ver­mont Stu­dio Cen­ter while we were res­i­dent artists. I thought her work was amaz­ing in per­son, and so this morn­ing I was very excited to see a press release from her in my inbox. Erica’s work is play between paint­ing and sculp­ture, and what I really love ...

Hi all, I have been pretty sick over the 24 hours, so I haven’t posted on Brown Paper Bag (obvi­ously). I am tak­ing a break today and tomor­row, so I will see you all for 2011! Happy New Year! Sara ...

Max Ernst was a painter, sculp­tor, and graphic artist active dur­ing the early 20th cen­tury. A pio­neer of the Dada move­ment and Sur­re­al­ism, he grew up with­out a for­mal art edu­ca­tion and served in the first World War. It was after the war that Ernst’s career started to blos­som. He returned home with new ideas, con­nected ...

Hey folks, sorry but no entries today. Check back tomor­row for your reg­u­larly sched­uled programing! ...