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Henrietta Harris.

January 9, 2013 § Leave a Comment

and the slow return of art blogging?

your tomorrow

tild

we won that battle

fresh hell

Thanks to ApartmentTherapy I recently discovered Street Art Utopia, a site compiling a crapton of diverse street art works, some of which I’ve previously blogged. During the Spring of 2011 I taught a University Writing course in which we discussed street art in relation to public activism, cultural resistance and appropriation, and visual rhetoric more broadly; so happening upon this site as a catalog of resources is goooood. And because I have a pathetic memory, I’m making this post to remind myself.

Now, I am excited to share The Little People Project by Slinkachu (also responsible for Inner City Snail: A Slow-Moving Street Art Project). I can’t tell you much about the artist because as far as I can tell there isn’t much to be readily found online, and that’s on purpose. But I can share that this particular project is archived as far back as 2006, and most of these miniature assemblages came to exist in major cities across Europe though it would appear to be based out of London. Actually, I just found this:

I really dig it when the artist remains anonymous. These small-scale executions are witty, fragile, and entertaining. Enjoy.

Brandi Strickland.

November 18, 2011 § 1 Comment

I finally received my very own numbered/signed print by mixed media and collage artist Brandi Strickland. I’ve been wanting it for well over a year, waiting in the name of a concerted effort to limit my print purchases. I need to stop accumulating mailing tubes and actually go get art properly framed, but the process is so damn expensive. Especially since so many of the pieces I want are nonstandardly sized. But, a lot of Strickland’s work comes 8.5×11″ so maybe I won’t have to wait too long for the second.

From the artist’s site:
“brandi strickland is a 26 year-old collage and mixed-media artist based out of floyd, va. she grew up in north carolina and graduated with a ba in studio art in 2007 from queens university of charlotte.

she creates small-scale works of art using techniques of hand-cut collage, painting, and drawing. her compositions range from simple and impactful to sweepingly ambitious and hyper-detailed. even while manipulating found images, she manages to create enveloping, otherworldly landscapes. although collage often lends itself to a certain cleverness, her pieces remain heartfelt and revelatory.

there is a narrative quality to her work that explores the human condition. she assimilates myth and metaphor with the mundane and everyday to create images which depict incarnation, ascension, love, struggle, disasters, initiations, illuminations, transitions, celebrations, separations, epic journeys, and long-awaited arrivals.”

White Mountain (Dis mine now.)

Gaia

Universe Kite

Mile High

BrandiStrickland.com

Mike Bayne.

September 25, 2011 § 1 Comment

When I first saw Bayne’s paintings I thought I was looking at Alec Soth‘s photographs. But, obviously, I was wrong. Which was cool, for once, because I remain a lover of photorealism. Ever since taking a “Theoretical Constructions of Space” graduate class I’ve been rethinking suburban architecture and spatiality. We tend to underestimate how the space(s) we exist in affect our mood, interpretation, lives. We’d be remiss to not acknowledge how where we dwell is often also how we dwell.

From Bayne’s website:
“Mike Bayne’s exquisitely rendered paintings capture North American scenes that are familiar and iconic. At first glance, they are often mistaken for small photographs; yet, they somehow capture a reality that photographs are unable to. There is an aura of the unbelievable in Bayne’s deliberately banal subjects, a determined skill that precisely captures every nuance of the scene — the isolation, the stillness, the quality of light, the richness of colour, the extreme attention to detail in every reflection, every surface, every blade of grass. While Bayne’s work commonly depicts human absence and isolation, the viewer often gets a sense of “being there,” the result of such an accurate depiction.” -Katharine Mulherin

Red Brick (2008)