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 ...

New work by the Bel­gium artist/illustrator, Brecht Van­den­broucke, below. I am con­tin­u­ally amused by Brecht’s illus­tra­tions. They are truth­ful and weird with a nice sense of irony to them. His char­ac­ter­i­za­tion is inher­ently funny with all-too-flexible limbs and dis­pro­por­tional bodies. Also, the lush, full color and full bleed illus­tra­tions are lush and extremely sat­is­fy­ing to view. ...

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 ...

Beth Hoeckel’s stu­dio lies in beau­ti­ful, tree-lined neigh­bor­hood in Bal­ti­more. Light and airy, the space is home to Beth’s col­lage and mixed media work. As some­one who works in col­lage, I was impressed by Beth’s way of work­ing and orga­ni­za­tion. See­ing this space and hear­ing her speak really informed the work for me, which is ...

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 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 ...

It’s Tues­day, and another install­ment of Time Travel Tues­day with Rebecca of Big Things! Today we take a look at Mor­ris Louis: After Helen Franken­thaler died last week, I started read­ing more about the Color Field painters and became intrigued by Mor­ris Louis and his enor­mous can­vases of rich color. Orig­i­nally from Bal­ti­more, he lived and ...

I feel that the details of large murals can often get lost, and so I impressed to see the work of Xuan Alyfe. The small details (peo­ple, dashed lines, stip­pling) he has depicted pair well with the large, bold shapes. They all seem to work together in its own world, a system. All images via ...

Infus­ing the sea into many of her paint­ings, Fuco Ueda’s sur­real works are beau­ti­ful in their color and han­dling. There seems to be a visual splen­dor that Fuco is tap­ping into, imply­ing that at times, the nat­ural beauty of the set­ting sun and the blues of the ocean have this dizzy­ing power to ren­der us ...

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 ...