Guest Spot: Brian Olewnick
Brian Olewnick is a painter, a writer, and curator of an outstanding social-network page for those who seek visual inspiration and lively conversation on art and music. He’s also creator of the blog...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Kristen Terrana
OK, let’s crank up the heat and kick out the jams. Kristen Terrana’s Mad Hatter Girls should do the trick perfectly. I first fell in love with My Precious after watching the artist at work on YouTube...
View ArticlePop Objects: Banal or Sincere?
[“Untitled,” Catherine Rutgers, 1976, pages 34-35] Occasionally, a work of Rauschenberg’s will seem like an authentic Dada gesture. The White Paintings of 1951 would ideally present the concept of...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Ellena Rutsch
The art of Ellena Rutsch is an electrifying journey into the world of paint. Lustrous, gritty, glistening painting that echoes nature and rides into the realm of imagination. Here’s the good word from...
View ArticleStreet Smart
Church Avenue is one of those all-time great streets full of every kind of commerce going on. Fresh fruit, flip-flops, flowers, fajitas. Fabulous. And that’s a short list. But when you move west toward...
View ArticleOn the Hypervigilant Edge of Internal Extremes
Untitled, 1976, pages 51-52 “I’m living in a foreign country, but I’m bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor’s edge, some day I’ll make it mine.” (1) I am looking to find the value in all of...
View ArticleGeometry Bent
This is one of the most exciting moments of my life. There is no other way to say it. There are a million ways to let it slide by. Let me shake neglect from my coat like a golden retriever … Continue...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Susan Scutti and Sarah Valeri
Susan Scutti and Sarah Valeri, the author-artist team behind The Deceptive Smiles of Bredmeyer Deed, have merged an awesome science-fiction story with a thirst-quenching dose of the emotion and...
View ArticleWelcome to CatRutgers4art
Pause here for visual refreshment. CatRutgers4art is an essence: far less than everything, much more than a fragment, all original art. Inspired by my boundless fascination with natural phenomena in an...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Jamie Kelty
While growing up on a farm in Kansas, Jamie Kelty developed a strong connection to the earth and to the hand-made. Now that the artist is living in New York, this connection remains visible in her...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Brian Olewnick
Brian Olewnick is a painter, a writer, and curator of an outstanding social-network page for those who seek visual inspiration and lively conversation on art and music. He’s also creator of the blog...
View ArticleIconic Dimension
The iconic dimension is small. But it has to be powerful. Mostly I create this type of image for folder icons and their desktop aliases. So that means I’ll be looking at them in their tiny size for...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Samm Cohen
“Permissive,” mixed media by Samm Cohen The opening page of Samm Cohen’s website includes this quote from Carl Jung: “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” Samm brings a distinctive touch...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....