
Alexandra Levasseur
As I often do, I was browsing through BOOOOOM today. There, I saw some work by Alexandra Levasseur and fell in love. Levasseur is a native of Shawinigan, Quebec, and now lives & works in Montreal. Her tagline is “I prefer…

Jarek Puczel
Jarek Puczel (Jarosław Puczel) is a Polish painter whose take on representational realism is to bring focus to the signs and signifiers of meaning in a scene by rendering the rest of the scene as flat expanses of colour. The overall effect…

Sonnenzimmer
I’ve been seeing a lot of Sonnenzimmer around the interwebs, for good reason – their work is really fantastic. The Chicago-based duo, Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi, teamed up in 2006 to create (amongst other things) pleasantly minimalist posters for a…

Gregory Thielker
Hey, do you like taking photos through rainy windows? Me too. But wait… these aren’t photos – they’re oil paintings. Okay, paintings of photos, but still: mind=blown. These paintings are part of an ongoing series, “Under the Unminding Sky” by Gregory…

Marco Mazzoni
Marco Mazzoni’s work is getting a lot of attention these days, for good reason – it’s exquisitely beautiful, provocavitve, and masterful. Coloured pencils, no less. I first heard of him when he was the featured artist in Hi-Fructose, but have been…