Tamara Natalie Madden: Women Warriors
History and heritage serve as inspirational, guiding forces in life. Without knowing one’s history, how can she plan for the future or fully comprehend her present? Many of us look to familial history...
View ArticleHan Young-Wook: Flaws Welcomed
He depicts the beauty of the human face. Just as much as he depicts what makes our faces captivating, he also focuses on our flaws. This method makes his paintings extremely realistic. When I first saw...
View ArticleJulian Farrar: Mining the Depths
One of the beautiful things about art is the message behind it. It reveals the creator’s thoughts, passions, experiences, showing what attracts and compels them. So when I noticed the repetitive use...
View ArticleBrad Kunkle: Give Me the Light
What begins as a traditional oil on canvas painting for Brooklyn-based artist Brad Kunkle, ends with a magical twist––a twist that could change your entire perception of the painting’s purpose. Kunkle...
View ArticleTatyana Fazlaizadeh: Stop Telling Me To Smile
Artists have a way of symbolizing their times. But the great artists often times become THE symbol for their time, and their works represent more than just their craft but also their generation. In an...
View ArticleMario Testino: The Creative Lens
His portraits have made a significant impact on the history of pop culture and fashion. Mario Testino, originally from Lima, Peru, has photographed celebrities and icons such as Princess Diana, Kate...
View ArticleNathaniel Mary Quinn: The Silver Lining
Paul Gauguin, a French Post-Impressionist artist, once said “I am a great artist and I know it. The reason I am great is because of all the suffering I have done.” There is no truer case […]
View ArticleJ.D. Hillberry: The Man Behind the Art
The self-taught artist, J.D. Hillberry, has been a professional artist for almost 20 years. Over this time, he has become the most respected and well known artist in his field. His charcoal and pencil...
View ArticleMargaret Bowland: Unorthodox
When I first encountered Margaret Bowland’s paintings, I didn’t understand them. Sure, they were beautiful and very well done, but something seemed off about them. They offered no easy explanation. As...
View ArticleJosé Parlá: What the Walls Whisper
“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it,” according to German sociologist and critical theorist, Theodore W. Adorno. I like to think of artist José Parlá’s art as a visual...
View ArticleBen Ingham: Finding the Moment
A black and white still of a road sounds unbelievably boring. However, the cracks in the road show its wear and tear. The white lines are almost stripped away completely and it’s clear why…. The arrows...
View ArticleAnnie Ling: The Power of a Photograph
As a film major, observing snapshots is something that I do very often. In fact, photography and film are parallel when it comes to the media world. However, documentary photography, is a fragment of...
View ArticleDanielle Mastrion: Mural Biographies
She captured him so perfectly: his dark shades, full lips and creative swag. The vibrant colors used to create his sweater simultaneously demonstrate her creative license and his unique style....
View ArticleJoel Daniel Phillips: No Regrets
The young hipster artist Joel Daniel Phillips, does life-size charcoal portraits of some interesting subjects. For Phillips, the end goal isn’t just about the finished image of the person. He really...
View ArticleReinier Gamboa: Free Flow
Finding a balance between complexity and chaos, is a hard thing for anybody to accomplish no matter your profession. And often times both things are visible in your ultimate product. Cuban, Miami-based...
View ArticleYoung Sun Bai: Life Support
“I work in abstract images, hoping to evoke enlightened emotions and perceptions I hope that the result of those outpourings, expressive or perceptual, would be profoundly simple. The flow of human...
View ArticleAlec Huxley: A Peculiar Portrait
It’s a sunny Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco, you walk down Larkin Street and notice an art mezzanine named Gauntlet Gallery up ahead. Paintings have always intrigued you so you decide to spend...
View ArticleCameron “Camer1″ Moberg: Passionate Graffiti
Raised in a small, civilized town bordering Georgia and South Carolina, artistic graffiti was something that was nonexistent. Sure, there were people who vandalized the school bathrooms with curse...
View ArticleCesar Biojo: Beauty Created & Destroyed
“Boys will be boys” is how the saying goes. We roughhouse, play video games, draw or build stuff, and destroy a lot of things along the way. Some of us, (myself included) carry these traits into […]
View ArticleDann Dunn: A Need For Speed
Faster than a speeding bullet, is it a bird, is it a plane? Nope. It’s speed painter, Dan Dunn. The Texan Dan Dunn has been working as an artist since the ripe young age of 19. […]
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