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Embellished to Life: A Conversation With Illustrator Bill Rebholz

amadeusmagFebruary 27, 2015

At any given moment, on any given day, you can find illustrator Bill Rebholz huddled over his desk, sketching long-legged gentlemen gripping their oblong belongings. He draws simplicities sans simplicity, exaggerating all interactions, aspects and ratios to parade the detailed oddities of life.

Amadeus Issue 04 Release

amadeusmagFebruary 18, 2015

Here we are, one year and four issues later. Things happen fast in one year, and since our modest, 40-page, saddle-stitched first issue, we’ve created a new kin... Read More...

With Hand-inked Ambition: A Conversation With Illustrator Jacky Sheridan

amadeusmagFebruary 9, 2015

Jacky Sheridan’s work always begins in black, hand-drawn ink—a hardened practicality most artists can’t shake. In observant detail the Irish illustrator conveys complexity in simple outlines and colors, giving way to to life's details without hindering its absurdity.

Less is More on Murder By Death’s New Album “Big Dark Love”

amadeusmagFebruary 2, 2015

Lead singer Adam Turla talks haunted venues, unfortunate band names and a new recording process that just may prove to create their most successful album yet.

Traditional Forms and Modernist Aesthetic: A Conversation With Illustrator Andrew Khosravani

amadeusmagJanuary 23, 2015

It’s not only the level of detail in Andrew Khosravani’s drawings that is seemingly inherent to his style; it's the underlying symbolic nature too. With black and colored pencils he creates dynamic worlds in lovely spectrums of color that evoke a range of historical art forms.

Confined Chaos: A Conversation With Photographer Carter Quick

amadeusmagJanuary 20, 2015

The confined chaos within Carter Quick's images and short videos hits you instantly, as though the vibrant disorder within each shot is actively trying to push its way through the edges of the photograph.

Balancing the Actual and Absurd: A Conversation with Sarah Haug

amadeusmagJanuary 16, 2015

A life too serious becomes ripped of its meaning, dried out and hung up, not even suitable for show. Without room for human error (read “a humane touch”), life is not our own—a sad reality for those steadfast realists.

Deadbeat Club’s “Mentally Retired” Show at Slow Culture Gallery

amadeusmagJanuary 10, 2015

Highland Park gallery Slow Culture played host to the rad folks of Deadbeat Club for their newest photo exhibition, "Mentally Retired".

The Devil Makes Three Talks Fugazi, Recording Live, and Embarks On Largest Tour Yet

amadeusmagJanuary 9, 2015

There is nothing fabricated or staged in the music that The Devil Makes Three creates, just an extension of the devastating and downright pretty feelings that really must rest in each of them. As the band starts its largest tour yet, guitarist and lead singer Pete Bernhard took the time to talk about learning everything they know from Fugazi, endlessly driving around this country in circles, and channeling Woody Guthrie for lyrical inspiration.

Between Reality and Escapism: A Conversation With Photographer Chris Mongeau

amadeusmagJanuary 5, 2015

With an embedded obligation for exploring all of it, Mongeau has made traveling his art form as innately as photography—his photos are harmonious with his travels; his travels, harmonious with his work. Saturated not only in natural hues and depths but in experiences, Mongeau’s work captures the staunch essence of living—without fear and without graveness—perfectly nested between the beauties of reality and escapism.

Vitality and Lightness: A Conversation With Illustrator Rachel Merrill

amadeusmagDecember 31, 2014

Rachel Merrill works mostly the old-fashioned way, wrestling valiantly with watercolor and pencil. She works across illustration, comics and fashion and her signature style is heavy on effervescent tones and devoid of extraneous detail, making for works that straddle a magical line between rigorous and wistful.

Lessons On Working Serially: A Conversation With Photographer Rory Hamovit

amadeusmagDecember 29, 2014

Rory Hamovit's photographs leave a strongly cinematic impression, demonstrated by his portfolio, as a kind of montage of fragmented images, all the while synthesizing a pictorial language that isolates things in order to enhance their symbolic quality.