What is Art? Ask anyone this simple question and see how many unique answers you will get. I had the opportunity to interview self-taught artist, Monroe Reeves from Baltimore, Maryland on his insights concerning art. With such a broad question, Monroe responded passionately. “Art is ...
Take a stroll through any good art museum and you will see object after object of transcendent beauty that take you back to that moment when the creator conjured it up. Here crafts are not “crafts”, they are a form of contemporary fetishism,
Nicole Buckingham is a Baltimore artist who creates figuratively symbolic “puzzles”1, blending together her own imaginary world with a raw global human experience. She recently exhibited her work in Rendering a Narrative: Imagination and Allegory in the Gormley Gallery at The ...
Recently, I spent an afternoon walking through the neighborhood of Old City in Philadelphia. Immediately after stepping foot in this neighborhood, you feel the influence of a generation of artists, who in the nineteen seventies began to transform the neighborhood into a thriving arts district. ...
Gina Pierleoni started out our interview by telling me a little bit about her background. She was five years old when she became interested in art. She had an older cousin who was an artist when she was younger. He was ...
Mike Riley's creates art in an unrefined and cartoon-like style that is rarely seen in high art; but even more interesting is what inspires him and just how deep these seemingly simple cartoons are. Riley uses a drawing style and portrays ideas that are ...
Last Friday, April 29 we attended the Transmodern Festival inside the well know arts warehouse space, the H & H building. Three stories of the building were subdivided into unique galleries for exhibition. The third floor was dedicated to Room’s Play, a trippy, theatrical ...
Stereotypes and associations that people have about black males are extremely negative, according to Fanon Hill, the co-director of the Black Male Identity Project (also called BMI), and the typical reactions people have when discussing issues such as education, justice, health, fatherhood, and families ...
The question posed by the title of the American Visionary Art Museum's current exhibit What Makes Us Smile? is easily answered by the looks on the faces of patrons roaming the winding halls of the main exhibit floor. The works are organized into rooms ...
To many, art is shared through traditional forms such as painting and sculptures, but Rick Delaney, the exhibitions director of the new gallery titled Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes, explains in his gallery program that artists' books emerged in the ...