I’ve been a huge fan of Mike Perry’s work for years. So, when he announced his new show at the Min­neapo­lis Col­lege of Art and Design, I was intrigued. He cre­ated a blog for the event that detailed his preparation. Now, Mike has cre­ated a web­site about the show so you can view it if ...

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 ...

A friend (and for­mer room­mate!!), Jaime Bennati’s news­pa­per instal­la­tion and sculp­ture is some­thing that is to be mar­veled, both in its con­struc­tion and presentation. Jaime’s con­cept came from her dis­cov­ery of an aban­doned build­ing in a working-class Bal­ti­more neigh­bor­hood. After some explo­ration and research on the ware­house, she retrieved some of the items left over ...

I usu­ally like to write a lit­tle some­thing that I per­ceive from each artist I post on here, but after read­ing Kim­berly Hennessy’s won­der­ful artist state­ment, I really want to post part of it. It describes her work so perfectly: My work bestrides the oppos­ing posi­tions of slack ver­sus tight, exclu­sive ver­sus banal, tri­umphant ver­sus ...

Michael Velli­quette has cre­ated an aston­ish­ing paper world. It is bright, impres­sive in size, and extremely detailed. The metic­u­lous­ness in his work is unmatched of any­thing I’ve really seen. The way that Michael’s pieces hang on the wall remind me of masks and almost pieces of a totem pole. The amount of paper actu­ally cut ...

I really enjoy the work of Lore Smol­ders, but I had the hard­est time find­ing any work by her out­side of see­ing her con­tri­bu­tion to a Rotopol Press show. Lore uses graphite and her style has a heavy hand to it. There is a lot of cer­tainty to her lines, and they’ve made the work ...

I love activ­i­ties that bring peo­ple together. I’ve always really liked artist col­lec­tives, includ­ing Okay Moun­tain. This col­lec­tive con­sists of 9 artists who live and work in Austin, Boston, Chicago and Oakland. Orig­i­nally an artist-run alter­na­tive gallery, the mem­bers of Okay Moun­tain found them­selves cre­at­ing art together out­side of their gallery envi­ron­ment. The col­lec­tive has ...

Remem­ber when I wrote about the Paper­Craft book? That books gives some great inspi­ra­tion and con­stantly had me think­ing, I wish I had thought to use paper like that! Lau­ren Clay is an artist that is fea­tured in that book, and one whose work I am envi­ous of (in the best way possible!) Her work ...