Art MoCo

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  As Far As I Could Go by Sonia Haberstich

  Posted: 12-June-2013, 8:20am EDT by sabine7

  Pops of colour in the form of spotted balloons are hard to resist. Sonia Haberstich's work is playful, inviting and quite varied. She lets her acrylic inks bleed ever so gently, with careful drips lending their own architecture to...
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  Prophylactic rain that doesn't wet anything by Luzinterruptus

  Posted: 10-June-2013, 10:30pm EDT by sabine7

  Also known as Interactive Rain, this is the latest guerilla installation by Spanish lighting collective Luzinterruptus. More great photos are on the collective's website. Here they tell it best in their own words: "In the month of May we...
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  Playing with Stencils by Amy Rice

  Posted: 2-June-2013, 3:05pm EDT by sabine7

  Using stencils in her artwork is one of Amy Rice's signature techniques, so when we saw that she'd written a book called Playing with Stencils: Exploring Repetition, Pattern and Personal Designs, we knew that it would be a useful...
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  Pageantry of Plumage (detail) by John Newsom

  Posted: 8-May-2013, 8:28am EDT by sabine7

  John Newsom took about 2 ½ years to complete each painting in the Bestiary series of work. The oil paintings start out as abstracts with rich impastoed textures that provide a subtle, almost secret, base for the dense depictions...
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  Dreamscapes by Jane Gottlieb

  Posted: 6-May-2013, 8:21am EDT by sabine7

  Jane Gottlieb's Dreamscapes are hand-painted and digitally enhanced large-scale photos of scenes and landscapes from around the globe. Some locations may seem recognizable or familiar, but their vivid colors add a totally different dimension. Reality may be altered, but...
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  Paysage 6 by Agathe de Bailliencourt

  Posted: 3-May-2013, 8:39am EDT by sabine7

  The raw linen on which Agathe de Bailliencourt creates her oh-so-subtle abstract landscapes plays an important role in the work of the collection entitled Sheer. De Bailliencourt uses acrylic paint, pencil and water on untreated linen that absorbs these...
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  Wildflower11 (texasbluebonnetpaintbrush) by Danae Falliers

  Posted: 1-May-2013, 8:16am EDT by sabine7

  A blur of colour shoots across your field of vision. Swathes of wildflowers create a striped landscape, beckoning, taunting, haunting. In contrast, the sky threatens to open and pour forth its rage. The latest works in Danae Falliers' Wildflower...
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  Pecking Order by Shag

  Posted: 29-April-2013, 8:54am EDT by sabine7

  Thursday's Girl is the name of Josh Agle's latest show and is based on the idea of the naïve young women who are drawn to the big city like moths to a flame. Inspired by Velvet Underground's All Tomorrow's...
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  MAPS by Paula Scher

  Posted: 28-April-2013, 9:31pm EDT by sabine7

  Paula Scher has made an art out of turning words into geography. She creates spaces out of the boundaries formed by place names. Maps is a glorious compilation of the artist and graphic designer's expressions of the world around...
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  Old Yeller by Jared Small

  Posted: 26-April-2013, 8:02am EDT by sabine7

  The faded glory of once-elegant homes is captured by Jared Small in paintings depicting the decay of neighbourhoods and their architecture. Peeling paint and shabby facades cannot hide the fact that the ravages of time are not only cosmetic....