SoCal Artist Bob Dob, whose punkish paintings I've admired since before I knew who created them, is the latest artist to team up with STRANGEco to produce some wicked collectibles. Raging, Smoking, and Drinking are Bob Dob's three vinyl interpretations…
Continue Reading →Apparently, dead bird artwork is making waves outside the taxidermy-ing circles these days. We pointed out Michael Sans' Cuckoo Clock not long ago, and now I've got another for you: have a look at Ted Noten's Starling Bag, featuring a…
Continue Reading →Check out this quick and super-fun video of our friend Undoboy installing his Blik Dreamland wall graphic. He shot the whole thing over 2 hours and then sped it up into hyper speed for our 1 minute viewing pleasure. I'm…
Continue Reading →Let me just open with this: a priority postage-shipped package painted especially pour vous! Its "contents," maybe Freedom or Love or Happiness, even. The simply named The Priority Boxes project, realization of painter Franck de Las Mercedes, is a public/global…
Continue Reading →My most favorite artist in the whole wide world, Takashi Murakami (see: Superflat, Louis Vuitton), is co-curating an exhibit with Giant Robot publisher Eric Nakamura, selecting the cream of the crop from Murakami's respected GEISAI art expos in Japan and…
Continue Reading →It's nice that the U.K.'s It's Nice That keeps pointing me towards so many outstanding artists. What's even nicer than that is how Danica Novgorodoff, on top of being an incredible master of enchanting aesthetics, has the kind of last…
Continue Reading →This Friday, Colorado artist Rafa Jenn will be showing his new collection of work at Boulder's Joy Engine. "Pin-Ups," which features 50 drawings by the multi-aliased man, will pack out the Engine with plenty of hand-drawn nakey from 8-12pm, then…
Continue Reading →Just had a great afternoon hopping around downtown Portland with none other than SpearTalks own Jeff Rooney (Capacitor Design Network). We popped by Upper Playground and the Fifty24PDX gallery to see the Ricky Powell show-- if you're interested in large-format…
Continue Reading →The beauty of art is that there is nothing that its defines boundaries or rules; you can work with any media on any surface and it is art. Daniel Edlen found his niche painting portraits of American legends on original…
Continue Reading →Ever find something that makes you regret not knowing about it sooner because in some esoteric, inexplicable way it makes your life better? I'm feeling exactly that way upon the discovery of artist Brian Dettmer's amazing, amazing work. With surgical…
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