Indi Carlton paints the kind of places you may have visited in a dream but could never find on a map. Humans and animals share the atmosphere, color moves like weather and a spiral might be a symbol, a doorway or both. The California painter and mixed-media artist works intuitively, […]
Some artists create a character and move on. Brooklyn’s ZERA created SkiGurl and gave her a passport to travel across canvases, woodcuts, walls, dollar bills and the fluorescent glow of blacklight. ZERA is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose work combines acrylic paint, spray paint, hand-cut wood and street-art energy. Her […]
Davana Robedee does not simply draw an image onto fabric. She sets the conditions, folds labor into the material and lets indigo finish the conversation. The Syracuse-based artist, curator and educator creates large-scale fiber installations and indigo drawings using stitch-resist shibori. Some of the dye begins in her own small […]
Give 77 artists the same piece of clay and you may get 77 different answers. Philadelphia-area sculptor Tory Smith is testing that idea by herself, one figure at a time. Smith is a figurative ceramic artist working with different clay bodies, finishes and firing methods. Her figures do not chase […]
There is something wonderfully strange about seeing an astronaut standing in the American wilderness. Put that figure beside a bison, surround both with thick color and suddenly the landscape feels familiar and completely new at the same time. That is the orbit of Wisconsin artist A.D. Hogan. Hogan works from […]
