Wild West at BDGA is a multi-disciplinary art and design installation orchestrated by David Buckley Borden that focuses on America’s conflicted relationship with its landscape and natural resources.
“I just kind of get into my little painting zone,” laughs Cecilia Romero, her bubbly disposition mirroring that of her rad color palettes. The LA-bred artist just wrapped up her latest project: a mural spanning a heavily trafficked Silverlake Los Angeles wall. Busy with people and emotions, the mural defines the area and its residents; for Romero, it’s all about those real life moments, full of feelings, personal energy and the relationships, real or not, between herself and the personalities she paints.
From behind the lens of his 4×5, photographer Trevor Powers takes stills of life’s trivialized moments—those brief, familiar instances of beauty we so often overlook. Located in Western Mass via Vermont via Boston via Texas, Powers observes, clicks and prints photographs of his living, breathing surroundings.
Caricatures depict our exaggerated realities. They offer a lighter take on life and its nonsensical situations with inflated expressions, colors and stories; dreamscapes of real life, if you will. But what happens when the man behind the amplified doodle is the man within the amplified doodle?
Growing up in a working-class household in Phoenix beset by little artistic inspiration, MadMan ‘MDMN’ often escaped into dream visions of Sci-Fi channel shows fueled in equal measure by off-brand action figures with interchangeable and colorful arms and legs.
Nicholas Zaremba is the best kind of artist: no rules, no expectations, he just creates. With no fear of formats or platforms, Zaremba has created with surfaces... Read More...
With a little bit of wood and a grip of recycled materials, including repurposed cardboard, Adams fabricates large-scale geometric sculptures that stand as unique pieces of tessellation-like art and serve to augment the normative city landscapes we pass by every day.
As part of our new video series, we went into the studio of our friends over at Best Dressed Signs. You read all about them in our interview with them yesterday... Read More...
The designer turned street artist may have only got her start spray painting the sides of buildings and walls in downtrodden alleyways nearly a year and half ago, but here squiggly-looking cast of characters, which are contrived from the stoned skateboarders and drunk hippie bums she runs into on the Hollywood streets, are a direct response to being out and about in the Los Angeles.
Big flawless hair, pearly-white smiles, perfectly pressed slacks, and brightly colored tweed dresses; just a few things you might see as you graze through a lifestyle or teen magazine from the 50s or 60s.
Who knew that a large amount of public schools no longer teach students how to write in cursive? Best Dressed Signs and Lot F gallery teach us about the importance of preserving script handwriting and give a demonstration on basic sign painting.
Keith Maclelland’s work has always been largely steeped in exploring the imagined notions behind the singing cowboys of the 1950’s – the Gene Autry and John Wayne types – who, with their fancily embroidered collard-shirts and leather chaps, could seemingly solve small-town problems from behind their wailing guitars.
