In the work of Ramsgate, United Kingdom–based illustrator Bex Glendining, dramatic shadows and theatrical compositions draw the eye around what almost feels like an illustrated still from a movie with realistic environments and figures posed naturally. “I’ve always been drawn to [creating] quiet moments, imagining a real lived-in place or space […]
Month: June 2024
Lucy Sparrow – ‘Bourdon Street Chemist’ @ Lyndsey Ingram « Arrested Motion
The latest incarnation of Lucy Sparrow’s felt installations saw the Suffolk-based artist recreate a fully stocked drugstore selling everything from luxury perfume to hemorrhoid cream at Lyndsey Ingram Gallery in London. Bourdon Street Chemist was the artist’s seventh major exhibition where all the items have been rendered out of felt and […]
‘Skullcap’ honours Australian servicemen – QAGOMA Blog
In 2013 Shirley Macnamara began to make skullcaps, reminiscent of a customary funerary practice for some Aboriginal women where their heads were plastered with white clay or burnt gypsum to form a cap, covering their hair completely. The wearing of this cap could extend for some time after a death, […]
Kenny Schachter “you can define my entire life in one word: art”
Instagram is not only my subject matter as an artist. It is an amazing tool to connect with like minded people and it’s what I like best about it. Meeting with Kenny Schachter is another recent great example of the magic of that fabulous tool. Despite his very busy schedule, […]
How to sell your art online and make money: 21 Tips for 2022
Is it worth selling art online? Despite the commission rate online being in general lower, it can depreciate the value of your original art if you sell its reproduction. Think about your art business as a whole. If you are tech-savvy or not into local networking, selling art online may […]
Required Reading
For Vox, Rebecca Jennings distills why “chronically online” discourse has become tiresome, and what makes the social-media-drama hamster wheel so exhausting for participants and spectators alike: It’s become something of a sport to unearth these sorts of replies, the ones where strangers make willfully decontextualized moral judgments on other people’s […]
Rucking Fotten x Spoke Art in NYC!
Spoke Art is returning to New York City for a special four day pop-up event with our friends, Rucking Fotten! With their signature eye-frying colors and focus on fan favorite cult films, RF has put together an amazing collection of brand new designs which we’ll have on view at our special pop-up […]
Marria Pratts: Melted with U
Marria Pratts: Melted with UDecember 9 – 21, 2022The Boiler / ELM Foundation191 N. 14th St.BrooklynNY 11249 Enfant-terrible of Spanish creation, Marria Pratts, exhibits for the first time in New York with LA BIBI Gallery, after receiving institutional recognition in her hometown, Barcelona. Her ghosts, neon signs, burnt canvases, will […]
Women Painting Women at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Women Painting Women is a thematic exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This group show presented by The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. The exhibition was curated by Andrea Karnes, […]
In Conversation with Michael Harding About His Professional Watercolours
Michael Harding has been producing oil paint since 1982, and now his long-held dream of making a high quality watercolour range has finally been realised. With a vision to develop colours of the highest intensity and integrity, and with as many pure single pigment colours as possible, Michael Harding has introduced […]