Filed under: art | Tags: Amsterdam, art, contemporary art, Illustration, klosetkase, Martine Johanna, painting
Dutch, contemporary artist, Martine Johanna’s works put me under a joyous trance. She began her education in art and fashion at 19 years of age and pursued fashion design up until 2008, when she decided to focus solely on painting and drawing. Her work is arresting. Dixie Rose
Filed under: art | Tags: art, Dixie Rose, Ewelina Koszykowski, klosetkase, painting, Polish
Ewelina Koszykowski’s vulnerable meditations into the present, offer one the opportunity to be transformed, playing with the notion of “what if” we were all divine and leaped from death back to life. She had a life altering accident which instilled in her a hypersensitive urgency of time. I understand her sentiment from the perspective of loss where you evolve to a more heightened sense of value for the people you love and life. Dixie Rose
Filed under: art, film, music | Tags: Allison Schulnik, CalArts, Claymation, Grizzly Bear, painting, San Diego, Stop Animation
Allison was born in 1978, in San Diego, CA, where she received her BFA in Experimental Animation at CalArts. She expresses her depression in the manifestation of a hobo clown, in her above stop-motion animated film and also in her paintings. The bare essence of clay work is sublimely, painstakingly fulfilling, because of the amount of work which goes behind it. Notice how she layers paint on canvas with a clay-like feel and texture. I don’t know if that was her intent, but the sensibility carries over. Music featured in film clips by Grizzly Bear. Dixie
I do find comfort in the obscure and surreal, but these are colorfully so. James Jean…el tipo esta duro.
Filed under: art | Tags: art, Fecal Face, Kevin E. Taylor, painting, San Francisco
Kevin titles his paintings after he’s finished with them. He named the one above Riding Riddle. In verbatim-” It’s about the scorpion who carries the gopher across the lake. And the gopher’s like, I don’t wanna get a ride from you ’cause you’re gonna sting me you know, when we get to the other side. Scorpion: He’s like Nah man it’s cool, I won’t sting you. Gopher: He’s like I don’t know. Scorpion: He’s like Nah just come on, get on my back I’ll carry you across. And he carries him across and gets to the other side and he stings him. And the gopher’s like, in his like dying breath you know, man u said you weren’t gonna sting me and the Scorpion’s like, Dude I’m a scorpion, you knew that when you climbed on my back you know.” —said Kevin E. Taylor with such mellow irony, in an interview fecal face did of him on youtube. Dixie
Filed under: art | Tags: art, Dixie Rose Fernandez on Francoise Nielly, Francoise Nielly, Oil Portraiture, painting, Paris
Filed under: art | Tags: art, Cory Helford Gallery, Haute Epoch, Los Angeles, painting, Sylvia Ji
Filed under: art | Tags: Amsterdam, art, Chris Beren's The White Ones, Chris Berens, Jaski Art Gallery, painting
Filed under: art | Tags: fine art, Host and author Dixie Rosa Fernandez, Jenny Alcantara's Treacherous Gardens, painting, San Francisco
Filed under: art | Tags: art, Eric White, Eric White's Psychology of Interiors, painting
Eric White’s figurative detail-oil paintings are part of a series titled Psychology of Interiors. Some of these paintings scream Alfred Hitchcock. They seem to show our naked fears and insecurities. And I really do feel it happens that way for most of us. DIXIE
