A painting can tell you a lot about the subject, the artist and the time and place it was made. Sometimes, they seem like perfect windows into another world. But what about how they were made? A painting is meant to be seen as a finished product, and the process of their creation is largely […]
Amy Guidry’s landscapes almost look familiar, with blue skies, clouds and distant mountain ranges. But what’s populating them is entirely different. Her hybrid creatures, disconnected (though still alive-seeming) animal parts and eerily calm human faces let the viewer know that something else is going on here. Something much larger. That’s the point, though. In her “In […]
In an effort to revitalize one of the oldest villages in Tunisia, artist Mehdi Ben Cheikh led an awesome project. He and the Galerie Itinerrance (France) created a plan to make Erradh, on the island of Djerba, awesome. They rounded up 150 street artists from 30 countries around the world and set them loose in the […]