Featured Artists
OSÉ GUADALUPE POSADA and the Mexican Penny Press
José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) was one of Mexico’s most influential political printmakers and cartoonists. Posada produced an extensive body of imagery, from illustrations for children’s games to sensationalistic news stories. He is best known, however, for his popular and satirical representations of calaveras (skeletons) in lively guises, who have become associated with the Día de…
Read MoreNoelle Mason “Incident Report”
Most skydiving photography uses wide-angle lenses and fast shutter speeds to freeze time and capture images with the highest possible clarity. In contrast, “Incident Report” uses a lens-less pin-hole camera which does not refract light but instead allows the image to imprint itself directly onto a piece of film over a period of three seconds…
Read MoreJPEG Mountain: New Work by Cassandra C. Jones
Collecting thousands of found digital images, Jones organizes them to create colorful and unexpected collage works that float like botanical drawings on stark white backgrounds. The work reflects the disparate influences in Jones’ life: technology and the natural beauty of the landscape that surrounds her Ojai Valley home. With Jones’ meticulous touch, images of nature…
Read MoreCHERYL GOLDSLEGER: Recent Works
Goldsleger’s works are inspired by relationships between location and territory, between micro detail and macro expanse, and between order and chaos. Using a highly nuanced palette of whites, greys, blacks and muted colors, these new works deconstruct reality into the two-dimensional plane. Although rooted in reality, these mixed media paintings and drawings are constructed in…
Read More“Cats and Hats” and “Turtle Power! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Samurai Heroes” at the Springfield Museums
Next summer, the Springfield Museums will open The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss, the first museum to honor Springfield native Theodor Geisel. In anticipation of that momentous occasion, the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts will exhibit a series of whimsical works on paper around the common theme of “Cats in Hats,” in…
Read MoreHumanism + Dynamite = The Soviet Photomontages of Aleksandr Zhitomirsky at the The Art Institute of Chicago
“What gives the strength of dynamite to the photo-poster and pamphlet? First of all, its motto is humanism. And, of course, the ability to see in subjects something new, that which others do not see, but that they should by all means see.”—Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, The Art of Political Photomontage, 1983 Zhitomirsky began publishing drawings in…
Read More“Impressions of War” at the Saint Louis Art Museum
The Saint Louis Art Museum will present Impressions of War, an exhibition featuring The Disasters of War, Francisco de Goya’s 80-plate contemplation of war and its aftereffects, as well as additional series of prints by three artists whose works equally respond to the darker side of war and its aftermath. Francisco José de Goya…
Read MoreAtsuko Morita “365” at Space236 in San Francisco
The “365 ” exhibit is now over two years in the making. Using a pinhole camera I crafted specifically for this project, I have captured one moment from each day in my life. The photos are clustered by month, with a small portion of the negative exposed for each calendar day. I have been producing projects for years…
Read MoreJerome Hershey ” New Strokes + Words” at Pennsylvania Arts Experience
“I make number and text based, color oriented abstract paintings and drawings. The paintings are created by repeating and layering the words or numbers found in the title of the piece. I use my own handwriting, fragment each letter or number and assign colors to every unit. Repeated over and over, the words become purposefully…
Read MoreAmy Rockett-Todd and Antonia Small
What began as a trek through the woods towards Fairy Beach, with canned chairs atop the heads of her children, fusing the paths of two wellie-wearing women … Amy Rockett-Todd met Antonia Small on that rocky beach the summer of 2012. As Jack, Antonia’s jack Russell,perched himself atop a nearby rock, the two discovered they were both…
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