Month: October 2007
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Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones, or Android Jones as he is sometimes known, is a concept artist and an early adopter of digital art tools. He has worked for ILM, Black Isle Studios, Retro Studios and is currently art director for Massive Black. He was integral to the concepts for well known games like Nintendo’s Metroid Prime and…
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Faye F. Vander Veer
My recent post on the Philadelphia First Friday gallery walk reminded me that there was another recent art event in Philadelphia that I had meant to write about. The Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show, which started life 75 years ago as the “Rittenhouse Square Clothesline Show”, is the oldest organized outdoor art show in the…
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J.C. Leyendecker: America’s “Other” Illustrator
J.C Leyendecker: America’s “Other” Illustrator is the title of an exhibition organized by the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California and currently on view at the City of Fullerton Museum in Fullerton, CA. I’ve raved about Leyendecker before, and will continue to do so; both because I can’t resist the opportunity to post more of his…
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First Fridays: Philadelphia Gallery Walk and Wilmington Art Loop
Like many cities, Philadelphia has a “gallery walk” (two of them in fact), in which galleries within close proximity of one another arrange simultaneous openings and encourage an evening of gallery-hopping. The one in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood is one of the longest running organized gallery walk events that I’m aware of, having started in…
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Patrick Woodroffe
Patrick Woodroffe is a British artist noted for his his illustrations in the fantasy and science fiction field. His work, however, often bears less conceptual and visual relation to the images normally found in that genre than it does to Surrealism, Symbolism, contemporary visionary painters and the work of 16th Century artists like Bosch and…
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Albert Bierstadt
By the time Albert Bierstadt began painting his dramatic landscapes in the middle of the 19th Century, the mountains of New York’s Hudson valley, once the epitome of the American wilderness, had been widely portrayed by two generations of painters, from Thomas Cole and Asher Durand to Frederick Church, John Frederick Kensett and the Luminists.…