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,
“Art is in my heart and soul; it is something I will always do, so making a living out of it that is just a bonus.” says artist Jenny Campbell As a young child she recalls her creative mother who helped develop her artistic vision. ...
I had the pleasure of inteviewing local artist Adam Estes about his work and influences. I had no preconceived notions of what kind of person he would be, but he is a truly fantastic man. His artwork consists of abstract creatures and brilliant collaborations of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Something about my brain chemistry in my few decades on this earth has never been compatible with the idea of vegetarianism. I’m told some of my first words were “medium rare” and upon moving to Baltimore I would say yes to just about anyone that ...
At first it was just a film review and an interview, and what seemed like simple ones at that. Matt Porterfield was a professor at Johns Hopkins University, the same University I had been enrolled in over the past four years, and his new film, ...