Chelsea Bayouth loves a challenge. She loves to dig her teeth in, and figure out a way to physically create what usually starts out as a scribbled note in her sketchbook.
Jason Moore has few boundaries. In any particular series of his collages you can find a loose inventory of imagery that includes bare breasts, atomic bomb explosions, skeletons, dicks, vintage porn, guns, black eyes, cops, death, decay, vaginas, mosques, skulls and nuns. His cache of symbols seems to leave no trash bin unturned, no corner of ebay unrummaged.
Portland-based illustrator Clark Jackson's friendly, yet gruesome cartoon illustrations exorcise some art demons from mid-century EC Comics to old Robert Crumb and 90s horror imagery. amadeus talks with Jackson about his first CD with a "Parental Advisory" sticker on it, watching Gremlins and Beetlejuice as a kid, and what he loves about having his worked printed on everything from a vinyl record to a t-shirt.
In the four weeks leading up to his much anticipated show, Colman used Chandran as his studio, creating large-scale paintings specifically to fit the gallery's walls and floors. Check out photos from the show via one of amadeus' fresh new photographers, Mira Laing.
Francesco Igory Deiana’s solo exibition, Haptic Render, currently on display at San Francisco gallery, CULT, explores the translation of form between digital and analog worlds. Peep photos the current exhibition here.
Ryan Bubnis will work with just about any material he can get his creative hands on. Whether it is a leftover scrap of sand paper, wood, or vinyl, or an object found on the side of the road. It is this inherently DIY and don't-waste-a-thing artistic candor that allows Bubnis to manipulate these varied objects into oddly shaped faces and abstract, pattern driven illustrations, paintings, and designs.
Sometimes Bryan Peterson will sit in the back room of his Los Angeles house for eight hours at a time. Streams of colorful, wavey, psychedelic glitches cascade an old boxy TV screen, while Peterson sits to the side of the monitor, usually tinkering and twisting nobs on a large mixer of some sort, and pushing the 'A' and 'B' buttons on a Gameboy color that he custom wired as a vessel to perpetuate his digital art.
“I’m often at odds with my knowledge of art making versus my intuition. I’m constantly critiquing work in order to discover what makes a successful image. As a result, I’ve pared-down and simplified my imagery with an emphasis on shape-based art making,” says artist, Ryan Bubnis.
Walking along the streets of Five Points neighborhood in Denver, Colorado I notice a haphazard outline of some unknown figure spray-painted on the side of a bui... Read More...
Dana Stirling is a storyteller, and a damn good one at that. A visual narrator, Stirling unfolds past and present through anonymous people, objects and things, wrapping her own self expression in expressionless beauty and attacking her memories from an abstract vantage point.
Adham El-Sherif, the designer behind AE Design, stands in his sunlight studio on the Pico Boulevard, a now bustling row of inspiring local shops in LA.
