The few times that I have used spray paint, it has been a bit unwieldy for me. So, it makes me dou­bly impressed with the work of Casey Gray, who works with spray paint and sten­cils to cre­ate large, col­ored works. From his web­site: Casey Gray’s work is a man­i­fes­ta­tion of per­sonal expe­ri­ence within the ...

At the Mul­ti­plic­ity open­ing last Fri­day, there were tiny plates etched with fig­ures and lines on the ground for all to look at and take. The artist, Jef­frey Vin­cent, was sign­ing the back of them, too! I later found his Flickr with other works, includ­ing paintings. The paint­ings are really beau­ti­ful — they have a ...

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 ...

With­out plan­ning, Rebecca of BIG THINGS and I traded our Time Travel Tues­day posts of an artist and car­toon­ist that we both enjoyed as chil­dren and later redis­cov­ered. Check out what Rebecca has to say about the Russ­ian artist, Nathal­ija Gontcharova! (And, read more of our Time Travel Tues­day posts!) ——– Last week at the ...

Nowa­days, I spend a lot of time with my Instant Net­flix. Lately, I’ve been opt­ing to watch doc­u­men­taries and movies about ser­ial killers and crim­i­nals (but only dur­ing the day! It would nor­mally give me night­mares!). Need­less to say when I saw that Sean Lewis’s illus­tra­tions for his Spring 2011 the­sis show was about crim­i­nals ...

Ian Car­pen­ter is a painter out of Brook­lyn, New York. His work uti­lizes large fields of color cou­pled with smaller details. Imag­i­nary land­scapes float in an ethe­real abyss. Art Muse recently posted a print of his paint­ing,Teng­boche for sale: All images via his blog/website. ...

This past Sat­ur­day, I was in NYC and stopped by a num­ber of gal­leries in Chelsea. One of gallery in par­tic­u­lar was Freight + Vol­ume, where artist Kris­ten Schiele’s work is cur­rently on view. The exhi­bi­tion, Beyond the Rocks is a show com­prised of painted oil on board, silkscreen, and transfers. What ini­tially struck me ...

A cou­ple of nights ago, I almost uncon­trol­lably kept draw­ing vases and decanters. Dur­ing this act, I was reminded of the work of Aimee Lusty, whom I had writ­ten about on Brown Paper Bag nearly a year ago. I loved her arti­facts, using vases and other sim­i­lar forms that ref­er­ence a given period of time. In ...

Last week, I made a visit to the stu­dio of Her­monie Only. Housed in the base­ment of the house in which she lives, it is dark and a bit haunt­ing, but also serene and authen­tic feel­ing to the work she makes. Her­monie, a b-grant award win­ner, uses both sculp­ture and paint­ing to explore ideas preva­lent ...

Carla Barth is an artist I fea­tured long ago and still keep up with her work. Perus­ing my Flickr, my eye was caught with these pieces: Carla’s work stems around rela­tion­ships, with her char­ac­ters in posi­tions that sug­gest an inti­mate part­ner­ship with a cer­tain level of uncanniness. All images via her Flickr. Check out her ...