Based in Leeds, Leah Durant states that her pri­mary pas­sion is pho­tog­ra­phy, which is melded with print­mak­ing, col­lage, and drawing. In col­laged pieces, Leah’s pho­tog­ra­phy is often non-specific and enlarged to high­light tex­ture. Aes­thet­i­cally, I love the dif­fused nature of her mark-making and pho­tos, which speaks to the larger scope of her work. She writes: ...

The illus­tra­tion and paint­ings of Sarah Williamson are sim­ply won­der­ful, uti­liz­ing a few dif­fer­ent tech­niques to bring forth her visual lan­guage. There is a major empha­sis on the free­dom of media (as she paints with wet-on-wet) and a love the fig­ure and land­scape. Inspired by what’s around her, the Brook­lynite writes: I used to work, ...

I’ve only recently begun to learn about cyan­otype, which is a pho­to­graphic print­ing process that cre­ates a cyan-blue print. Pho­to­sen­si­tive solu­tion is applied to a sur­face (such as paper or fab­ric), and left to dry in a dark place. Based on the inten­sity of the ingre­di­ents in a solu­tion, dif­fer­ent tones of blues can be ...

It has been a while since I have talked about the work of Ky Ander­son, but I love it all the same. I enjoy Ky’s use of color, and despite their more muted char­ac­ter­is­tics, they are not mud­dled. And, if they are mud­dled, Ky explains in her state­ment that they are that way by their ...

Since I will miss the recep­tion tomor­row, I took the lib­erty of view­ing Search Engine: Lou Joseph 1998–2012 at the North Ave. Mar­ket on my own. I was blown away by amount of work on the walls, also enjoyed nav­i­gat­ing through the space with the Search Engine Field Guide (avail­able as a pam­phlet upon enter­ing ...

Fanny Rose is an artist work­ing out of Brus­sels. Via her web­site, she stud­ies tex­tiles, likes to draw, and take pic­tures. This is very evi­dent on her Flickr, and I, of course, am attracted to her draw­ings, which include short bursts of color and vary­ing types of line. What she pho­tographs (flow­ers) often trans­lates into draw­ing, ...

The bright and col­or­ful works of Mis­aki Kawai intrigued and excited me. I wanted to know more about her instal­la­tion, sculp­tures and draw­ings. Via Rove TV, I learned that: Like many other ado­les­cent Japan­ese girls, she [Mis­aki] was influ­enced by west­ern pop cul­ture to a fanat­i­cal degree. She was greatly fas­ci­nated with 60’s fash­ion and ...

I love the new paint­ings by Jeremy Tin­der, com­pleted for his solo show (com­ing up, I pre­sume?). His block char­ac­ters, with their hulk­ing fig­ures and hol­low insides, are still emo­tional, emit­ting joy and sor­row. I care about them and their well-being. Jeremy also is good at like­nesses, with much of his work a play on ...

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 ...