So I’m doing something a little different for today’s post. It seems like a good day for a fine art reference, hm? Let’s talk about Salvador Dali’s painting, The Persistence of Memory. For some reason it’s been on my mind as of late. Maybe because I feel like I’m at a crossroad in time as…
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in a world of watercolor
I’ve been going through my old work this week and came across this watercolor I did in undergrad. I don’t think I’ve ever put it up on the blog before. I painted this pair because they were my favorite Nikes at the moment. The class I took was taught by John McClanahan. He was an awesome…
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a little water color and photography mixed together
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This is the evil forest of darkness. I like seeing this one and the one posted below together. I think they make a nice dichotomy.
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Last night, while I was supposed to be working, my mind kept traveling back home to thoughts of Texas and woods. So I did a few small paintings to appease my mind. Then I thought it would be interesting to place myself into those paintings. You know what it reminds me of? That scene in…
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if Nikes could smile
Mark Bradford at the MCA
Mark Bradford currently has a show at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Bradford is a young artist from LA. His artwork at the MCA is terribly interesting. He took a lot of old advertisements and turned them into something entirely different. His work is a marriage of formal art techniques and a very distinct…
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I would have to say that my favorite artist duo in Chicago is, without a doubt, Nick and Nadine from Sonnenzimmer. Not long after I moved to Chicago, they were kind enough to invite me into their studio to spend time with them and learn about what they do. They make screen prints together…
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“It’s more like I’m having an experience than making a picture.” -Cy Twombly In keeping with yesterday’s dedication to Cy Twombly, I thought it would be interesting to carry one of his elementary concepts the underlies much of his art work into today’s blog post. I wanted to be able to have an experience of…
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for the love of nike 