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Dan Bentley: Assemblage Art

Born in an army hospital in Shirley, Massachusetts, Dan Bentley learned to walk and talk in Mineral Wells, Texas, and has lived in Rochester, New York since about 1978. Dan’s  “build it himself” style of education landed him at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he studied a mix of Engineering and Fine Arts, resulting […]

Art Quotes — #16

“Art takes nature as its model.” —Aristotle See more Art Quotes here. (Photograph by Wendy Campbell)

MOCA: Art in the Streets Exhibition

On from April 17, 2011 – August  8, 2011, MOCA’s Art in the Streets is the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. Curated by MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch and Associate Curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, the exhibition will trace the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to […]

The Art of Illustration | Off Book | PBS

Another interesting video from PBS Off Book. “Illustrators articulate what a photograph cannot. Using an array of techniques and styles, illustrators evoke stories and meaning in a variety of mediums, from editorial illustration in magazines and newspapers, to comics books, to activist media. And as their tasks over the years have become less informational and […]

Nom Kinnear King: Painting

Originally From The Norfolk Countryside, now living south in Hove, east Sussex Nom Kinnear King creates creates in oils imaginary female portraits. Her subjects are girls who roam from town to town in a patchwork old fashioned never world, where accordions and clarinets trail their steps, their joyful and curious behaviour shadowed by sweet melancholy. […]

Rai Cruz: Illustration

Sunday’s image is by 24 year old Phillipine artist Rai Cruz. To see more of his stunning work visit, his profile on Deviant Art.

Nicolas Alan Cope & Dustin Edward Arnold: Photography

Nicolas Alan Cope & Dustin Edward Arnold met through a commercial job in 2007 and began collaborating on personal projects in October 2009.  They are currently working on an ongoing series of four project-based publications entitled: “Vedas”, “Stamen”, “Putesco”, and “Aether”. Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art […]

Charles Grogg: Photography

Born in Gary, Indiana in 1966, Charles Grogg is an American contemporary artist and photographer. He currently resides in southern California where he produces fractured photographic images printed in silver and sewn through or in platinum and palladium on handmade Japanese washi which are restitched into whole images and frequently feature tethers, sutures or other […]

Sylvia Ji: Painting

“Sylvia Ji was born in 1982 in San Francisco to artistic parents. Ji’s interest in art was implanted at a very young age when she would look through her mother’s sketchbooks and watch her father paint. In her art, she explores themes of beauty, sexual provocation, and social notions of femininity juxtaposed against the dystopian […]

Bill Carman: “Unbalanced” @ Animazing Gallery

American artist Bill Carman has a new exhibition entitled “Unbalanced” opening today at Animazing Gallery in New York City.  “Carman’s paintings feature elements inspired by the fantastical and dark images of Hieronymus Bosch, and are executed with the precision of Albrecht Durer. His sense of humor is evident in this collection of nearly 50 mixd-media […]

Edward Weston: 1886-1958

Born on March 24, 1886 in Highland Park, Illinois, Edward Henry Weston was a major American photographer and co-founder of Group f/64. Weston began taking pictures at the age of sixteen when he received a Bull’s Eye #2 camera from his father. His first photos were of the parks of Chicago and his aunt’s farm. […]

Carne Griffiths: Mixed Media

Carne Griffiths’ artwork is born from a love of drawing and the journey of creating an image on the page. Working primarily with calligraphy ink, graphite and liquids, such as tea brandy, vodka and whiskey, he draws and then manipulates the drawn line. After graduating from Maidstone College of Art in Kent, UK, Carne served […]

Mark Rothko: 1903-1970

Born on September 25, 1903, Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz), was a major Abstract Expressionist artist and had an important influence on the development of colour field painting. Latvian by birth, Rothko emigrated with his mother and sister to the United States in 1913, joining his father and two brothers who had come a few years […]

5 Women Artists You Should Know: Vol. 2

1.  Laura Wheeler Waring – May 16, 1887 – Feb. 3, 1948: Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Waring attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1914. Waring was awarded the Cresson Traveling  Scholarship and studied Expressionism and Romanticism at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. Much of Waring’s work was focused on […]