Month: August 2008
-
Eric Bowman
Eric Bowman is a painter and illustrator originally from Southern California and now based in the Pacific Northwest. After years as a successful illustrator, Bowman is apparently focusing on his passion for plein air painting and figure work. His painting site has galleries of recent work, an archive of older work, and figure studies. He…
-
Karen O’Neil
Karen O’Neil’s oil paintings of glassware, china and fruit have some of the characteristics of watercolor and some of the feeling of pastels. I’m pretty sure O’Neil is working in opaque impasto, but she somehow achieves a bright, airy quality to her paintings that is often seen in transparent watercolor, in which the surface white…
-
Tekkon Kinkreet background art
Tekkon Kinkreet (or Tekkonkinkreet, a pun on the Japanese phrase for reinforced concrete) is a feature length anime (Japanese animated film) that has attracted a good bit of attention since its release in Japan in 2006. I haven’t seen the film yet, though I’m looking forward to it, but I came across a trove of…
-
Joe Vaux
Joe Vaux is a New York born artist now living and working in California. He studied at Syracuse University and has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in various galleries in California. Outside of that, I know little about him. His work is a wonderful combination of grotesque imagery and punchy, almost storybook-like rendering, with…
-
Anna Richards Brewster
When looking at the history of art, which in may ways reflects social history, I can’t help but think about how many potentially terrific artists we’ve been denied because women were discouraged or actively prohibited from being artists. Anna Richards Brewster was active at the turn of the 20th Century, a time when it was…
-
Shy the Sun (Ree Treweek and Jannes Hendrikz)
I was watching last night’s dazzling opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics on television, alternating between being stunned by the artistic vision and choreographic scope of the event, and appalled by the contrast between that and the jarringly interspersed commercials for dreary consumer products and an apparent attempt by the network to display its most…