I first found David Mén­dez Alonso via his Flickr, and was enthralled by all the color, street scenes, and gen­eral may­hem within his and his cohorts’ work. Upon vis­it­ing David’s web­site, he dab­bles in illus­tra­tion, street art, felt projects, among other things. I am very fond of his self por­trait, which is felt over canvas: ...

When I first wrote about Matthew Pal­ladino, I pre­sented works that were influ­enced by the likes of Jim Jones and gang rela­tions. His cur­rent work, while not as grounded to real­ity, still explore sim­i­lar rela­tion­ships that his older work references. Look­ing at Matthew’s new series (cur­rently show­ing at Fred­er­icks & Freiser Gallery in NYC), it ...

First of all… How delight­fully wrong would it have felt to be walk­ing on this floor, simul­tane­iously step­ping on José Lerma’s work? (From his web­site) I think it would have been pretty amaz­ing. While look­ing through José’s work, I sense the theme of dom­i­nance, or per­haps of encroach­ment. Ele­ments of his work use shapes, col­ors, and ...

Did you ever craft as a kid? Specif­i­cally, those iron beads (AKA Per­ler Beads)? I did, and I loved them! I actu­ally still have rem­nants of this child­hood past time, using them as a coaster for my desk. Sish-tick takes these iron beads to a much more grown up level, as he cre­ates wall hang­ings of ...

Take a look at some of these paint­ings by Andreas Eme­nius. They were in his solo show, Pull Me Apart„ Tear Me Back Together in Copen­hagen ear­lier this month. I thought the expla­na­tion of the work was an inter­est­ing one, so I’d like to share. From Andreas’s web­site (all images from there): “Mankinds long­ing for sim­plic­ity ...

<a href=“http://www.jessicabellart.com>Jessica Bell is an artist liv­ing in Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia, Canada. Her port­fo­lio is a beau­ti­ful mix­ture of mate­ri­als and focus on the inter­ac­tion of shape and color. There is a soft­ness to Jessica’s work that I really enjoy, which is demon­strated by her use of mate­ri­als, the han­dling of them, and choices in color. ...

Tyson Anthony Roberts is a painter liv­ing in Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton. His col­lege degree not only includes art, but biol­ogy as well! This seems to have influ­enced the way in which he cre­ates work, as his abstract forms are rem­i­nis­cent of organ­isms, the mak­ings of a cell. His state­ment about his work: As I visu­al­ize the world ...

Nate Burbeck’s panoramic oil paint­ings intro­duce us to char­ac­ters who seem like they are on a jour­ney. At the same, how­ever, there feels like much mean­der­ing involved– that these peo­ple (and spaces) aren’t nec­es­sar­ily look­ing for any­thing in par­tic­u­lar… just yet. Nate’s state­ment on his work: My cur­rent series of paint­ings com­bine var­i­ous land­scapes, visual metaphor, ...

I am sorry for the delayed post today! My brain is cur­rently work­ing at half capac­ity, as I am suf­fer­ing from a nasty sinus infec­tion. Have you ever popped your ear and it’s made your jaw ache? I have, last night. Not fun. Enough with my whin­ing. Onward! Amanda Gehin describes her­self a fan­tasy archi­tec­ture engi­neer ...

Vanesa Zen­de­jas is an artist liv­ing and work­ing in Chicago. She works on paper and with objects to cre­ate sculp­tures, and has an upcom­ing show with Katy Keefe (who I have writ­ten about pre­vi­ously). The show is titled Liv­ing With Them, and is Roots & Cul­ture Con­tem­po­rary Art Cen­ter from April 1st through April 29th. ...