Bo Bartlett at the Mennello Museum
Sponsored Content. Opening January 27, 2017 at the Mennello Museum of American Art, BO BARTLETT: AMERICAN ARTIST helps kick off a fantastic new year of impactful and unprecedented art shows in Orlando. This solo exhibition of large-scale oil works by the American realist painter is Read More …
Spotlight: Alana Questell
United Fragments Alana Questell’s traditional and digital collages combine found imagery, saturated color palettes, and a healthy dose of absurdity. Fragmented bodies, tropical flowers, and ambiguously mountainous landscapes are hewn together in Alejandro Jodorowsky-esque compositions, created with a sense of playful randomness and affection for Read More …
Representing Orlando with Secret Society Goods
There’s a new online store that’s striking interest not only with artists, but also with the general public here in The City Beautiful—Secret Society Goods. According to the founder and graphic designer/illustrator, Sean Walsh, Secret Society Goods was born out of a few different passions Read More …
The Purpose of Art
Alya Poplawsky & Katy Bakker, AK Art Consulting What is the purpose of art? Members of the art world have been trying to answer this question since the first art history book was published, but in our line of work, we cannot wax eloquent about Read More …
Tempest Floating Through the Mist
The unlit tip of Joe’s Pall Mall cigarette hung onto his lower lip. I kept waiting for it to fall. It didn’t. It never fell. The ember moved up and down slowly as he matter-of-factly stated that my brother was going to be a left-handed Read More …
Competing Spheres of Influence
We all descended upon Miami on Friday in our neutral-colored clothing and dark lipstick, our VISA cards and VIP passes, renting cars and drinking $25-a-glass wine, excited to inundate ourselves with art viewing and consuming, to witness the procession of the spectacle. As a rising tide Read More …
Trash 2 Trends: A Cause to Recycle
The place I currently live in just started being “recycling friendly.” This is something that’s extremely important to me, but to be honest, once I recycle my trash, take my unwanted clothes and shoes to a charity store, and make sure my tires go to Read More …
All Hail The Queen
Let’s start in the barrio. The Bronx. Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz was one of seven kids, raised on a single person’s salary; finances were important to her. “I was born like this,” she began, by saying she’d always been artistic and explained that illustration and graphic design Read More …
Aphrodisiac Dinner Jacket
Best known for his popularly infamous series, The Pinks, Scott Scheidly was the cause of a lot of discussion in last month’s issue. His Ass Clown depiction of president-elect, Donald Trump, graced our cover in November—providing a backdrop for the politically charged month. Originally born Read More …
Hannah Spector and Jacob Bailes. A Collaboration
“Artistic collaboration is a special and obvious case of the manipulation of the figure of the artist, for at the very least collaboration involves a deliberately chosen alteration of artistic identity from individual to composite subjectivity.” —Charles Green, Collaboration as Symptom Artistic collaborations oppose Read More …
