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Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough is a Bay Area artist and musician who holds an MFA from CCA and performs in the musical group, T.I.T.S. which recently performed at the ArtPadSF art fair. Yarbrough constructs incredibly detailed images out of colored duct tape and contact paper that are at times whimsical or mysterious. I’m a personal fan [read more...]
I just discovered the “Cosby Sweater Project” today via the Mishka Bloglin and I can’t take my eyes off of it. The project chronicles sweaters from The Cosby Show, along with a beautifully rendered depiction of what the patterns look like up close. What did I do before I had this [read more...]
I don’t typically like it when people post photos of art without any context or commentary, but I’m about to do just that. I don’t know. I could give some long-winded rhetoric about the artist’s craft, concept or aesthetics but I’ve met Judith and I feel that would actually detract from what the work is. [read more...]
I love these graphite on black paper works from the 2011 “Library of Babel” series by Snejina Latev. I love the graphic pixelation, the abstract geometries, the black-on-black composition and the fact that the artist is working with a solid concept. About the work (from the artist’s site):
Based on the story by Jorge [read more...]
My favorite place to check out art is the Hubble site.
Hubble’s 20th anniversary image shows a mountain of dust and gas rising in the Carina Nebula. The top of a three-light-year tall pillar of cool hydrogen is being worn away by the radiation of nearby stars, while stars within the pillar unleash jets [read more...]
