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’ve been fol­low­ing the work of Jen Stark for awhile. (She grad­u­ated from my col­lege and had a solo show in one of our stu­dent gal­leries!). She makes sculp­tures out of cut paper that radi­ate from the wall. Jen’s sculp­tures are some­thing to be expe­ri­enced in per­son. Her work is mes­mer­iz­ing. It is so pre­cisely cut ...

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 ...

A pro­fes­sor once told me that you were only as good as your library. Well, look no fur­ther for a really great addi­tion to it. Paper­craft: Design and Art with Paper is an excel­lent book show­cas­ing inno­va­tion with paper and how far things like paper sculp­ture and cut paper col­lage have come to per­me­at­ing our ...

Kick­ing off Mon­day I have for you the work of Jason Jagel. Jason is a California-based artist that dab­bles in illus­tra­tion, sculp­ture, draw­ing and painting. Fic­tional auto­bi­og­ra­phy is what Jason pur­sues in his work — events that have not hap­pened but yet you see in your life. Comics and a non-linear use of sequen­tial events ...