If you were to walk by MICA’s Stu­dio Cen­ter on North Avenue (close to what I am told is the slow­est McDonald’s in the world) dur­ing the month of Jan­u­ary, then you most likely saw the work of Jowita Wys­zomirska through the win­dow of MICA’s Cura­to­r­ial Stud­ies gallery, The Tem­po­rary. Three site-specific instal­la­tions were fea­tured ...

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, ...

Last Sat­ur­day at Nudashank was the open­ing of Jor­dan Bernier’s solo show, New Waves. I was hav­ing cam­era issues and only had my cell phone with me, but I absolutely loved the show. I’m always a fan of Jordan’s work, and was excited to see the large graphite draw­ings he produced. One ele­ment of Jordan’s ...

Ken Gar­duno has quite a few por­traits on his Flickr account, and I per­son­ally am more attracted to the more off­beat, loosely-defined por­traits. They exper­i­ment with washes and pat­terns, and are not as tightly ren­dered as some of Ken’s other pieces. I like to imag­ine them as a shroud with a life of its own. All ...

I fol­low OCW’s Tum­blr, and I found the work of Malin Gabriella Nordin through it. Her web­site, divided by years and sub­ject mat­ter. There is an explo­ration of shapes and col­lages yet very cohe­sive. A smat­ter­ing of her work is below. The stone or shape sim­i­lar to it is very present in Malin’s work. Some­times lit­er­ally, ...

I saw Rose Gainsborough’s work on Poolga yes­ter­day, a site where you can down­load artist iPhone, iPad, and iPhone4 back­grounds. It’s my go-to when­ever I want to change up the images on my phone or iPad. Any­ways, I now have this as my phone background: Rosie is an illus­tra­tor whose draw­ings are of objects, peo­ple, ...

I was blown away by the draw­ings of Henry St. John Newell upon first view. The long name is fit­ting for his draw­ings, which are extremely detailed (at times, per­haps over?) and beg care­ful examination. Henry calls his each of his works a “Mys­ti­cal Inquiry,” and are loaded with pat­terns and sym­bols, nau­ti­cal, spir­i­tual, among ...

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’ve always liked Allyson Mell­berg Taylor’s draw­ings, with their beau­ti­ful grotesque­ness. Below, some recent draw­ings by Allyson. The wilt­ing flora and fauna don’t strike me as sad — they feel lyri­cal and have a sense of their own mortality. Allyson often col­lab­o­rates with her hus­band, Jeremy. For a show at the Together Gallery (titled So ...