
Scott Conary
Scott Conary is a painter originally from the east coast but now living & working in Portland, OR. It seems like every American painter I’ve noticed over the last year lives in Brooklyn or Portland. In any case, I was…

Mild Climate – Blaine Fontana and Amy Ruppel
Checking out Hi-Fructose, I found out about a new show opening this Saturday, Mild Climate. It’s a collaborative exhibition at Art Whino Gallery in Washington DC featuring a pair of Portland OR artists, Blaine Fontana and Amy Ruppel. I enjoy collaborative work…

Stewart Jones
While perusing Canadian Art Junkie I lucked out by finding out about Stewart Jones. Now, here’s a painter after my own heart – Jones is a Toronto-based artist whose paintings of cityscapes focus on the interplay of manufactured and natural…

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…

Kevin Peterson, Painter
I was checking out the Juxtapoz website (as I often do) and they had a feature on a pretty cool artist named Kevin Peterson who, judging by the thumbnails, took photos of people in front of graffiti in urban settings….