A selection of work by artist Evelyn Tan. Originally from Vancouver, and currently based in Los Angeles, Tan holds a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work considers the deviations of identity in womanhood, pulling from dreams, memories, and fables across various diasporas. She works with a variety of materials including graphite, ink, paint, digital …
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Take a Nostalgic Dive Through a Visual Cassette Tape Archive — Colossal
Design History Music #archive #technology August 28, 2024 Kate Mothes All images courtesy of tapedeck As a graphic designer and graffitist who has been making work since 1989, German artist neck, who also goes by Oliver, is a big fan of the “beauty and (sometimes) weirdness” of common audiotape design. His ambitious archive project, tapedeck, aims to document the …
Read More »Martin Beck, Sung Tieu “echo*” at Salzburger Kunstverein
The exhibition “echo*” interlaces the artistic practices of Martin Beck and Sung Tieu. The exhibition creates an environment where the resonance of sound meets the solidity of institutional infrastructure, delving into temporal and spatial contexts at the same time. Central to the exhibition is a collaborative sound installation by Beck and Tieu in the corridor enveloping the Kunstverein’s main exhibition …
Read More »The Unapologetic Femininity of Isabella Ducrot’s Textile Art
DIJON, France — “In a fabric, the intersection of thread during its weaving establishes an unbreakable pact between the two opposed and distinct entities, the warp and the weft, and this pact is reaffirmed at every crossing thousands of times over.” So begins Isabella Ducrot’s The Checkered Cloth (La stoffa a quadri), a slim volume that the artist published with …
Read More »A Brief Lesson Explains the Visual Impact of an Early Cinematic Favorite, the Sustained Two-Shot — Colossal
Film August 27, 2024 Grace Ebert For the first time in nearly a decade, the duo behind the wildly popular YouTube channel Every Frame a Painting is back with a new lesson in cinematography. Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou began releasing short videos breaking down visual concepts and techniques in 2014, teaching their audiences what makes some of …
Read More »Carla Åhlander, Aaron Amar Bhamra “Holding Places” at Belmacz, London
The artworks of Carla Åhlander and Aaron Amar Bhamra invite us to pause. To be slow with a space; to dwell in the air of a space, that “border between everything and nothing” to quote Aaron, be this one transformed through spatial gestures (Aaron) or one made newly available through photographic series (Carla). A conversation through artistic affinities, “Holding Places” …
Read More »Minnesota Nonprofit Takes the Lead in Guaranteed Income for Artists
A guaranteed income program in Minnesota has doled out $500 a month to cohorts of urban and rural artists — no strings attached — since April 2021. Coming mid-September, Springboard for the Arts, the nonprofit behind the initiative, is launching a public art exhibition in St. Paul to advocate for guaranteed income programs. Artists in the show received a $5,000 …
Read More »A New Book Branches Out Across 3,500 Years to Explore Our Enchantment with Trees — Colossal
Art Books History Nature Photography #plants #trees August 26, 2024 Kate Mothes Beth Moon, “Heart of the Dragon” (2010), archival pigment inks on cotton paper, 32 × 48 inches. Image © Beth Moon, courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Spanning 3,500 years of art, science, culture, and history, Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World surveys the awe-inspiring beauty and romance …
Read More »Abstract Expressionism Scholar David Anfam Dies at 69
British art historian and renowned curator David Anfam died at the age of 69 in London last Wednesday, August 21, as confirmed by the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado. Best known for his scholarship on Abstract Expressionism, Anfam lives on through his legacy in exhibitions and publications such as his celebrated catalogue raisonné of Mark Rothko’s paintings. Born in …
Read More »Andrew Tseng – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
A selection of work by Amsterdam-based illustrator and artist Andrew Tseng. While initially studying psychology, Tseng eventually decided to follow his deep desire to pursue art and applied to art school. Whether working on commercial or personal projects, Tseng incorporates his abstract sense of humour and grotesque characters into all of his pieces. He also enjoys experimenting with printmaking techniques …
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