Gehard Demetz Wood Sculpture
Don’t let the name fool you – Gehard Demetz is an Italian artist, born in Bolzano in 1972 and currently living in Selva di Val Gardena. His debut show was in 2005 and he has caught the attention of the art…
Canadian War Artists of WWI
Today is Remembrance Day. On this, the eleventh day of the eleventh month, at 11 o’clock an armistice was signed that ended Word War I. While today Remembrance Day is observed as a means to honour the sacrifice of members…
Yuko Shimizu – The Beautiful and the Grotesque
I follow a few different artists on Behance, including Yuko Shimizu. I wrote about Shimizu a while back but as a quick recap, she was born in Japan and worked 11 years doing corporate PR in Tokyo until burning out (her only…
Impossible Objects
Optical illusions are an interesting cognitive stumble that can be explained through gestalt theory – but a simple shorthand is to say that what we are seeing doesn’t match up with what we expect to see, and the illusion is…
Support Your Local Used Bookstore
I try to post something every day (more or less) about what’s going on in the art/ illustration world. Some days I see lots of stuff that’s pretty interesting but for whatever reason, sometimes nothing really quite hits me right…
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