Holly Ann Scoggins is a figurative painter and professor at Polk State College in Florida. The viewer’s of her art peer through lattices of patterned textiles on the picture plane’s surface (like vines and underbrush in a dense forest) that tangle, reveal or obfuscate female portraiture and rural narratives set in the American South.
Francesc Ruiz Abad is a conceptual artist living and working in Barcelona. Ruiz Abad creates through a wide range of media allowing project to determine method. His works are ambitious, multi-faceted expressions inspired by the phenomenological minutia and narrative of daily life.
By Miguel Carter Fisher Often, the loudest voice isn’t the one worth listening to. In a culture of spectacle, where novelty trumps content, it is a true pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with an artist like Ecka Blaire Faulds. She has a sensibility akin to artist like Fairfield Porter or Erik Satie whose…
Living on the planet Earth, taking our place on it, being occupied with our daily routine is our destiny as human beings. Each of us is just a little part of the Universe, so versatile and limitless. I would like to understand our place in it, our triviality in the universal and our significance in…
Bryan Christie interviewed by Miguel Carter Fisher For more of Bryan Christie’s work visit http://www.bryanchristie.net/ Original link to interview on Miguel Carter Fisher’s blog “The divine is made evident through tangible and sensual experience; without our physical selves, we would not experience moments of wonder and the mysterious.” Bryan and I first met when I was working at…
Mosaics and puzzles are ancient and continuous modes of human thought wherein which a single unit combines into a whole; both are art forms whose nature calls for unification. Trey Speegle’s paintings (http://treyspeegle.com/) are directed puzzles/mosaics, an assemblage of fractions combined to elicit unity that often invite communal action or viewer involvement. His inheritance of…
Timothy was born and raised in rural Maine. Upon graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design he enrolled briefly at the Grand Central Academy before moving back to Maine to work as a creative designer for a clothing company. Not long after, he decided to leave the portence of a successful career and pursue…
by Jacob Hicks Michael O’Keefe (www.michaelokeefestudio.com) is an artist living and working in Dallas, Texas. He is the founder of the O’Keefe Studio, “an independent teaching space dedicated to arts education” (theokeefestudio.com), located in Richardson, TX. I had the pleasure of encountering Michael’s art in my first year as an undergraduate student at SMU in…
Eric Mavko is a Brooklyn-based painter. He received his MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art and completed his undergraduate work at The University of Arizona. Eric’s work encloses an audience within a muted, austere architecture. Inside his paintings the viewer becomes haunted by the serial, the sequential, the narrative, and the…
