Photographer Michele Mobley is currently nomadic, traveling the United States in a van. Centering upon herself and those closest to her, Mobley’s photographs feature illusionistic, staged happenings. She uses the process of image-making as a performance piece of sorts, capturing what she describes as “passive bodies subtly aware of a voyeuristic gaze just outside the frame.” “The act of photographing […]
“ALL BIG LETTERS” : Exhibition of Style, Tools, and Technique of GraffitiIt’s called ALL BIG LETTERS but it could easily be called ALL BIG DREAMS because the outward techniques, the history, and the tools of the trade of graffiti on display at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery all…
A selection of recent paintings by Brooklyn, New York-based artist Natalie Terenzini. Exploring perception, Terenzini inserts a caricature of herself into colorful, imagined realities that represent fragments of her life. Revealed in the everyday rituals, anxieties, and indulgences, these intimate portrayals often deal with depictions of the feminine in ways that are both authentic and universal. “My subject engages in […]
Set against the backdrop of Australia’s West Coast, photographer Aaron Webber captures the juxtaposition between leisure culture and heavy industry in his ongoing series, “Girt.” Having grown up in Western Australia, and currently living in Perth (Boorloo), Webber is intimately acquainted with the changes the region has experienced over the years. “The omnipresence of extractive industries intervening in both landscape […]
It is rare for an artist to define an entire genre, but Frank Frazetta defied the odds. For anyone with even a passing interest in fantasy art, Frank Frazetta will likely need little introduction. Known as the “Godfather of Fantasy Art,” he is considered one of the most renowned artists of the twentieth century—his name forever intertwined with images of […]
Religion and its practices should be voluntary, not mandatory. For some reason historically, it takes men longer to realize this than women. The killing of Jina Mahsa Amini for not wearing a headscarf (or hijab) in Iran recently may remind you of the various women’s rights movements internationally in the last century – a loud, messy, often violent insurrection of […]
A selection of recent work by Montreal-based artist Roxy Peroxyde. A self-taught painter, Peroxyde found her way to the medium after the birth of her daughter 14 years ago, and has been painting full time for the past five years. Her current practice focuses on recreating works by old masters—playing with new meanings and symbols from both modern and ancient […]
A selection of images by Vancouver, BC-based photographer Grant Harder (previously featured here). Taken over the course of a recent few days spent in Marrakesh, Harder’s photographs capture the sun-drenched warmth of the landscape, vacillating between scenes of peaceful solitude and bustling city life. Of his practice, he explains: “When photographing portraits, environments or still lifes I prefer to meet […]
Rafael Schacter and His “World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti”As we endure our one billionth snowstorm this winter we continue to paw through the stack of beautiful Street Art, graffiti, public art, and urban art books that we are honored to receive through the …
Oh, Word? Word. We may take them for granted, but these can be the most powerful, impactful things that we can do during our lifetime. That is why we follow the street scribes and listen to what is said and how. Because of the effort that it takes an artist or a poet, or a preacher to prepare these texts […]