Opening December 8th at Gallery Hijinks (2309 Bryant St.) in San Francisco: works by Martin Machado and Todd Freeman. The show is entitled, As It Was Before, and has a focus on artists that “use nature and science to reinterpret memories...
When your subject matter is Pacific Northwest foliage, it’s hard to create paintings that stand out from the crowd. Nicholas Brown demonstrates an original technique that brings a sense of order from layers of total chaos.
It’s hard to believe that these aren’t computer generated, but Seattle’s Justine Ashbee creates these detailed, morphing compositions using nothing but paint pens. Part topographic map and part biological form, Justine cites zen...
Seattle’s First Thursday is massive; here are some selections from some galleries we regularly enjoy. And, can I just say? Seattle is really rockin and rollin this month, with tons of really excellent and innovative exhibitions. We just did...
This post is actually going to feature two different series of works by Luis Dourado, Famous Are Dreaming and Into Space. But in my book, they belong together, dammit. The famous belong to the spacey dreams, so I’m going to sort them...
This stark series of acrylic paintings is entitled Collision. It features animals in various stages of the death and life cycle are set upon a square of urban space, feeling like small-scale museum installations. This show opens in Denver tonight...
Gean Moreno‘s website hasn’t been updated in a while (since 2004), but his layered collage works are new to me. The pieces are like erupting geodes, or something — layers of patterned lava flowing outwards and engulfing one another...
“Finn Bikkjen!” is nearly as catchy of an electopop song as you can get, and this crispy clean video is curious. Mysteriously-fabricked animal-human dancers and large papercut characters emerge from the woods, as if from a dream.