Fragmented
Using a pen and paper, artist Rob Strati mends broken sentimental plates. The series, titled Fragmented, originated in 2020 when a plate belonging to his late mother-in-law broke. From there, Strati created a way to bring the remaining ceramic pieces to life, continuing the ornate designs into sprawling illustrations that find new life on a…
Read MoreRay Masterson
Materson makes elaborate miniature embroideries from the loose threads of disassembled garments, most typically socks. His art speaks eloquently and directly to the myriad ways in which sheer need—creative, personal, and economic—can foster uncanny ingenuity. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brainard Carey, Director of Praxis Center for Aesthetics (@praxiscenterforlearning)
Read MorePalisade Fence
(b. 1989) lives and works in Cologne. He studied Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture at the Offenbach University of Art and Design and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In recent years, presentations of his work have included exhibitions at Kressmann Hall in Offenbach am Main, Centrum in Berlin, Villa Schöningen in Potsdam,…
Read MoreJoan Cornella
I abhor sarcasm, but something about Joan Cornella’s takedown of the spiritual bypass of today reveals a bleak emptiness masquerading as enlightenment in a way that feels necessary. His simply drawn cartoons are idyllic, teeming with joy, and teeming with blood.
Read MorePothole Mosaics
from DSGN 264-402: I thought that this public artwork, created by Jim Bachor and featured in this Colossal article, was both funny and heartwarming (a much needed combination of emotions in today’s day and age). Bachor has created a series of tile mosaics to fill in potholes in Chicago, with two of the mosaics inspired…
Read MoreCrash Kiss
It’s interesting to think about human contact and what that means several years into Covid. We are touch deprived, but also we don’t want to die…a familiar sentiment from the arrival of the AIDS virus. Technology seems to also push us further and further apart so it is fertile ground for artists explore how these…
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