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Robert Newman Thursday March 10, 2016
Jody Hewgill is a Toronto-based illustrator who has been contributing brilliant sparkling images to countless magazines, books, and publications for the past 25 years. Much of Hewgill's editorial work
includes bright, vibrant portraits of celebrities and entertainers-she was awarded a gold medal last year by the Society of Illustrators for a piece that appeared in Entertainment Weekly-but she also
creates powerful conceptual work as … Read the full Story >>
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Richard Alden Peterson Tuesday January 17, 2017
Today we feature the conclusion of photographer Richard Alden Peterson's memoir about the years he spent as the friend and collaborator of the artist Bruce Conner. With the exhibition "Bruce Conner:
It's All True" currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Peterson decided to record the experiences he had with Conner over three decades. Yesterday he described meeting Conner amid … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday September 15, 2023
Brooklyn Museum, September 15: María Magdalena Campos-Pons | Behold
Spanning nearly four decades of visually engaging artworks, the exhibition explores Campos-Pons’s prescient and sensorial work—transporting viewers across geographies, mediums, and spiritual practices. In her explorations of migration, diaspora, and memory, Campos-Pons draws on feminism, photoconceptualism, and Yoruba-derived Santería symbolism to weave together personal narratives and global histories.
The first multimedia survey of the artist’s work … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday January 12, 2017
Laurie Rosenwald is a New York City-based illustrator, artist, designer, and book creator. In addition to her many editorial illustrations for a wide variety of publications, Rosenwald has created
animation, product design, and leads an ongoing workshop, "How to Make Mistakes on Purpose." You can see a cool video interview with Rosenwald here, where she talks about art, design, illustration,
and her approach to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 15, 2014
From Art Making to Art Thinking: New Paradigms for Illustration Education By Bryn Barnard, Instructor, DP Visual Art and Theory of Knowledge, American
International School of Kuwait This article examines systemic, existential problems in the field of illustration education and explores potential solutions. When I
was an illustration student at Art Center in Pasadena, California, I lived with a group of other aspiring artists in a seedy … Read the full Story >>
