Q: Originally from Staten Island, what are some of your favorite things about growing up there? And about living and working now in Brooklyn? A: My hometown is about a 20 minute ferry trip and a 10 minute subway ride from here in Brooklyn. It often gets bad rap, but it was actually a really nice place to grow up. My colleague, the great … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Zaragoza, Spain, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Berlin? A: Berlin has a great cultural and leisure offer, just like any other big city, and a particularly boiling art scene. What used to make it different here was the fact that one didn’t need to be well off to enjoy all that, mostly because rents … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series of presentations made at ICON8 in Portland. The ICON8 Educator's Symposium celebrated new and innovative methodologies for teaching illustration in the 21st Century. This two-part event at the Pacific Northwest College of Art as part of the ICON8 pre-conferneceworkshops, July 9-10, 2014, featured a presentation of papers by a global selection of noted educators, and a … Read the full Story >>
Photographer Jeff Wignall explores several towns along the Housatonic River to test the versatility of the Sony RX10 III and its stunning 25 to 600mm Zeiss zoom lens. He found it's the perfect camera for everything from wildlife to close-ups to portraits of weary old mill towns. Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: I understand that you were trained as a graphic designer; what kind of work were you doing when you began making these tiny sculptures from scraps—and how did the personal work influence your design work? Lydia Ricci: I was doing a lot of packaging and branding work at the time when I made my first sculpture: The Dodge (green Dodge Dart, below). … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from the Golden State, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Tinsel Town? A: I’m originally from a small town in California’s Central Valley called Turlock. It’s mostly an agricultural community—lots of almonds, peaches, and cows. I moved to Los Angeles about ten years ago to attend Art Center College of Design. My favorite thing about Los … Read the full Story >>
Smart Image, Social Impact: Teaching Illustration and Design Responsibility for Social Change and Innovation Esther Pearl Watson, Associate Adjunct Faculty, Art Center College of DesignMartha Rich, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology Editor’s Note: This article is first in a series of presentations made at ICON8 in Portland. The ICON8 Educator's Symposium celebrates new and innovative methodologies for teaching illustration in the … Read the full Story >>
Gina Triplett is a Philadelphia-based illustrator and artist. In addition to extensive editorial illustration, Triplett has created imagery for books and book covers, packaging for Whole Foods, a poster for the New York City MTA, product design, and much more. Her bright, vivid illustrations are made with pen and ink and paint, and then "cleaned up" digitally. Triplett also works in partnership with her … Read the full Story >>
"My biggest goal is to be remembered as someone who helped others and gives my kids the means to tell their story to others," says photographer Caroline Jensen. "When I take clients, I have the same goals for them." Based in southern Minnesota, Jensen considers herself primarily an art photographer, though she also sells stock images and prints - often featuring her own kids … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, November 30, 6:30 pm: Aperture presents Daniel Gordon on his large color photographs, including Flying Pctures (powerHouse Books, 2009), in the Parsons Lecture Series. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 546 West 27 Street, 4th floor, NY, NY. Free. Tuesday, November 30: Last chance for Vogue'ology, an exhibition created by the Ballroom Archive & Oral History Project and the sound art collective Ultra-red, in … Read the full Story >>
As a former New Yorker transplanted to Boston, what are some of your favorite things about living and working there?Unfortunately, I don’t feel I that I've taken advantage of the city as I should during the last four years but I do frequent Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and other museums whenever possible. Boston is cool because it is a very compartmentalized city … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Chemin Hsiao: The brush. In Taiwan, where I grew up, it was customary for children to learn how to use the brush to write calligraphy in elementary school. It was considered an honor back then if you could write beautiful characters. I was among the kids who had to practice diligently and followed the … Read the full Story >>
Thirty years have passed since photographer Ernst Haas died on September 12, 1986. Haas was to color photography what Robert Frank was to black and white - a revolutionary, notes photographer Eric Meola: "Looking at his work," he write, "it is impossible to separate the person, his images and his words. Often called the 'poet' of photography, no other photographer influenced my generation as … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, October 27Last chance for Richard Misrach | The Desert Cantos. Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26th Street, NY, NY.Last chance for Gordon Parks | Centennial. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, NY, NY. Friday, October 26-Sunday, October 28: Designers and Book Fair. FIT, 27th Street and 7th Avenue, NY, NY. The Fair Exhibition Hall will include approximately 35 U.S. … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Texas, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York City? A: The energy, and the people of this city, are insanely inspiring. I grew up outside of Houston and I always dreamed of living and working in NYC as a kid. I’m guessing it was the movies, cartoons and video games that did it? Can’t … Read the full Story >>
Art Fair ConfidentialArt Wynwood, February 14 - 18, 2013Featuring 70 international galleries featuring emerging, cutting edge, contemporary and modern works and will have its own distinct identity and design. A unique feature will be the highlight of street art, murals, pop surrealism and other genres from the Lowbrow movement. The Art Miami Pavilion, 3011 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL.Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from England, as an artist, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? A: I like the freaks in New York. There are many things America gets completely right and the weirdos and nocturnal night crawlers that lurk around the subways and streets in New York are some of them. Others include pizza slices, stupid food hybrids (cronuts), … Read the full Story >>
The holiday season brings throngs of people out to museums, perhaps looking for a special way to close out the year on a high note. This year, New York City is a Mecca for art lovers, with many surprising shows on view. While many museums close their doors for New Years Day, a number of them remain open, including the American Museum of Natural … Read the full Story >>
Stanley Chow creates vibrant, graphic illustrated portraits. Readers of The New Yorker will be familiar with Chow's illustrations of pop stars and politicians, which have populated the magazine's pages for the past four years. It's no surprise that Chow began his visual career as a poster designer; that populist graphic sensibility thoroughly flavors of his work. His illustrations have a modern retro feel, influenced … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: My first impression of your current exhibition, Cloud Architecture, seen from the entrance of Planthouse Gallery, was: This is so much like what you did at Wave Hill, back in 2012. You had done drawings of dead bumble bees, all on small sheets of paper, pinned to the wall in a grid. I remember asking why dead bees interested you as … Read the full Story >>
