Andrew Spear is well-known artist in the Central Florida area. His style is instantly recognizable—a blend of graphic marketability with a very personal tone and intricate line work. His murals mark many public spaces and cover a wide swath of commercial properties. On a contrary Read More …
The question as to what defines art remains disputed largely due to the cyclic nature of new creative mediums flourishing. Disregarding established definitions of artistic legitimacy, these outlets find their form and then evolve, pushing through unfamiliar territory. If we must insist on greeting these Read More …
Kieran Castaño’s illustrations, paintings, and sequential works are humorous, seductively ambiguous, and poignantly vulnerable expressions, drawing form and content from contemporary politics, pop culture, art history, and underground comics. Castaño frequently culls his subject matter from politically-charged, personal experiences, creating representations of queer, androgynous, gender Read More …
Anna Cruz is a storyteller. “I used to dream in Tagalog often, but now not so much.” In February, she got back from a nice long visit to Manila—the first time she’d been back in years. “I was still surprisingly fluent…my vocabulary isn’t as wide Read More …
The agricultural history of Florida preserves itself within the art pieces of In the Eyes of the Hungry, an exhibition on display at the Orlando City Hall Terrace Gallery. The show’s title comes from John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath in which farmers face Read More …
Central Florida is, at once, a draw for all manner of peoples from all corners of the globe, a melting pot of culture, and a grey, muddied mush pressed into the pungent forms of souvenirs, repainted and sold to any passer-through. It’s not just the Read More …
Derek Demeter is a conservationist at heart. He uses the road less traveled out of an occupational necessity for dark spaces, and takes some stellar photography along his route. Flights of fancy aside, Demeter is an astronomer with a passion for photography that evolved concurrently. Read More …
“What is the difference between going to a national park or going to Disneyland?” At first, the question might seem trivial, but through his ongoing series, Aesthetics of Eden, Brooks Dierdorff shows us that this question is more important than we imagined. Dierdorff has Read More …
Daniel Morris is most known for his distinct style of portrait photography. He considers his subject in terms of the elements of art—line, color, shape, form, pattern, texture—organizing them into a unified composition while at the same time discovering and revealing the subject as metaphor. Read More …
With an academic background in artificial life and digital arts, Becky Flanders’ approach to her artistic practice borrows the “life-as-it-might-be” paradigm of artificial life’s philosophical modeling, deciphering the most essential processes of life and implementing them in new situations—confrontational images of the human body, ambiguously Read More …
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