Posted: July 21st, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: artist, berlin, ceramic, europe, exhibition, fangs and fur, milwaukee, over seas, pledge, Roxanne Jackson, sculpture, union art gallery, UWM, wisconsin, zentrum fur keramik | No Comments »
This will be my third post on Roxanne Jackson. The first was a result of shock and awe. The curator at the gallery I work at showed me her website and while my jaw was dropping and eyes widening I formulated what images I wanted to pull for a post on her work. Its gory, beautiful, brutal, soft, animal, and human. Eventually she had a show at our gallery that is where the second post came from.
Roxanne has been invited as a resident artist at the Zentrum fur Keramik (the Ceramic Center) of Berlin. She needs us to help out by making a pledge to support some of the costs of the trip. I’m happy to say I’ve made a pledge and hope that you do too. Take a look at what she is offering for pledges and learn more about her here. Having met Roxanne personally and worked with her during the installation I have found her to be a dedicated and inspirational artist. Take a look, think about it, and help a strong artist out!
Posted: March 18th, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: artist, colorful, emotions, expressions, fred bell, impressionism, impressionistic, local, local artist, milwaukee, milwaukee painter, oil paint, painting, pink, portrait, portrait society, self-portraits | No Comments »
I saw a show several months back at the Portrait Society with some work by a local artist Fred Bell. Playfulness, color, and energy are things I love in paintings and Bell has plenty of that. Here is what I saw at the Portrait Society. I’m drawn to the variety of expressions he captures:
You can check out more of Fred’s work at his blog here.
Posted: January 17th, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: artist, attractive, awesome!, collage, colorful, dark, detailed, disgusting, drawing, elaboration, erasure, fantastic!, great art!, gross, grotesque, gut wrenching, hieronymous bosch, horror, intense, mia makila, painting, photography, powerful, raw, repelling | No Comments »
When Hieronymus Bosch passed away August 9, 1516 his artistic spirit was separated from his soul as it ascended into heaven (god granted him passage for his amazing paintings). Trapped on earth his artistic spirit traveled many places and one of those was within the artwork of Mia Makila (<— check out her website).
Mia’s work is captivating to say the least. It is grotesque, elaborate, raw, detailed, piercing, colorful, and dark all at once. That is just what I see (and I like it), what do you think? Here are some of her most appealing (or repelling) works in my opinion:
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