Max-O-Matic, aka Máx­imo Tuja, is a col­lage artist work­ing to cre­ate slick, quasi-minimalist pieces pair­ing color with vin­tage imagery. My favorite of his port­fo­lio includes the Cream series, which, accord­ing to Max, was cre­ated “…dur­ing three fever­ish sum­mer nights. Obvi­ous links to hot, beach, sur­real crea­tures and pop lyrics…” They are lively, strange, and fresh. All ...

Chad Wys is an artist school­ing and work­ing in Illi­nois. His recent work looks at the nature of the object and the the­o­ret­i­cal weight it car­ries. From his artist statement: A major strand through­out much of my work, beyond the broader inquir­ers into what art means socially, is the notion of object: object own­er­ship, objec­ti­fi­ca­tion ...

I made a Tum­blr to sup­ple­ment what I am doing here on Brown Paper Bag! It will include stuff not fea­tured on this blog (as well as a few things that are). Fol­low me and look for artists, videos, and more! ...

When view­ing Denise Schatz’s web­site, her works and projects are bro­ken down indi­vid­u­ally. Look­ing at the con­tent and titles, it is clear that she really relates and expresses her view of the world through the act of record­ing and orga­ni­za­tion into books, libraries, and other visual histories. All images via her web­site. Pic­ture Library Apart­ment ...

There is a cer­tain amount of joy that I get from old but newly manip­u­lated pho­tographs, espe­cially the ones that Mario Zoots has used. Glam­our shots and school por­traits can be so silly (did any­one have a back­ground with LASERS in it?) so I enjoy the sub­ver­sive nature of what Mario is doing. It is ...

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. ...

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 ...

I am sort of sur­prised that I haven’t fea­tured the work on Geran Knol on Brown Paper Bag before. Styl­is­ti­cally, his work is right up my alley — hand crafted, abstracted with a bit of folk influ­ence. I am espe­cially a fan of Geran’s col­lages — I love the mix­ture of tex­tures and sub­tlies among ...

When I first saw it Amy Lincoln’s paint­ings, I was imme­di­ately flooded with asso­ci­a­tions of their for­mal­ist qual­i­ties, and the inter­tex­tu­al­ity of her work. Her artist state­ment makes ref­er­ence to this and the ideas and vast visual images that exist in our world: My paint­ings take place in a world that rep­re­sents both my uncon­scious and ...