Artist Profile: Marina Molares

Born to a Spanish father and an American mother, Marina Molares has spent much of her life on the road. Traveling from Belgium to China to the USA and Madrid, sampling the cultures around her, she’s evolved into a product of time and circumstance.

Her work incorporates playful textures, collage, sculpture, illustrative patterns and pop culture references.

Each piece reminds us to question our past and consider altering our future. Delve into her reel to be amazed at the colorful quirky calm throughout.

September 9, 2011 | By: Shayna Kulik

Vectorfunk on Canvas

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It’s always fun to see what Matt W Moore is up to. Here are a few snapshots of his latest round series. Enjoy!

August 10, 2011 | By: Shayna Kulik

Artist Profile: Field Kallop

If you’re an artist familiar with textiles, you’re always experimenting. Field Kallop‘s experiments are carefully calculated and beautifully executed. With an art history and gallery curation background, she’s applying natural talent to academia at RISD’s MFA painting program, finding inspiration in anatomy, physics and astronomy.

When asked about her technique, Kallop explains her process, “I built a pendulum, suspended it from the ceiling of my studio, and began to make drawings with it. My goal was to examine, harness, and display the effects of gravity, an invisible yet ubiquitous force that has always interested me.”

In our opinion, many of the images are reminiscent of rudimentary computer screens, revealing captured data in the ether world of the internet. Be it futuristic, abstract, or fluid, these executions are stunning and we’re excited to see what the future holds for Kallop’s career.

August 1, 2011 | By: Shayna Kulik

MWM's XYZ AXIS

When Matt W. Moore headed to Cincinnati for a month long residency at YES Cincinnati, he arrived with art, no supplies, and no firm plan for his next series of paintings, much like his February 2010 trip to Paris.

The result is a vibrantly colorful series created entirely with spray paint. Precise geometric lines reign as Matt created an analog version of his intricate and distinctive “Vectorfunk” style of graphic art. The result is certainly exciting and delightfully mind-bogglingly intense. Check out his work at YES gallery as well as the massive mural he created in downtown Cincinnati. For more info, click here.

June 2, 2011 | By: Shayna Kulik

Sante Fe: Consumed & Informed

Michael Freitas Wood’s intricate patterns mounted onto wooden boxes are an interesting sight. Built with multiple overlapping grids of contrasting pigmented modeling paste, Wood explores, in his own unique way, the overwhelming amount of visual information we encounter on a daily basis from tv, the internet, digital images and motion pictures.

With hopes of breathing life into a static medium, Wood “offer[s] paintings that explore this issue by creating intensely compacted, highly charged visual designs.” For more info, click here.

Box Gallery: 1611-A Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501

June 1, 2011 | By: Shayna Kulik

San Francisco: Borchgrave's Paper Dresses

Isabelle de Borchgrave is a painter who also happens to love textiles and costume design. Painting intricate patterns onto rag paper, Borchgrave manipulates each design into a fantastic trompe l’oeil dress inspired by the lush depictions early iconic European fashion.

To see such fashion finery as depicted in the Renaissance, gowns worn by Elizabeth I and Marie-Antoinette, designed by grand couturiers Frederick Worth, Paul Poiret, Christian Dior, and Coco Chanel would be a treat unto themselves, but seeing them recreated in paper brings the wonder of these magnificent garments up to a whole new level.

This retrospective of Isabelle’s work is expansive and if you love fashion, costume history, paper art, patterns, or design in general, you’ll be sure to find something to enjoy about this show. Click here for more info.

Legion of Honor: Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121

May 27, 2011 | By: Shayna Kulik