Flyer for Cutlery / Matt Boyle show

New §Θ╚PAinting♪

Just finished a long-overdue commission for Interior Designer Kim Jackson in South Carolina. A sister-project to the All Molecules Light AS Air Diptych in Los Angeles, this Triptych took about a year to complete and is composed of three 30" x 30" oil on canvas paintings (total size 30" x 90"). This is an extremely complex product of overlapping layers and geometric planning.

Brooklyn Series

I have begun a series of watercolors---- based on photos I've taken of brooklyn buildings, here's a sample of the work thus far....

Art Show

In conjunction with Seasick Mama, an art-to-apparel company in brooklyn, I will be participating in a group show at 303 Grand Gallery on Thursday, March 5th.
I will be showing new work, oil on wood/canvas, along with my illustrations I've submitted for production in the new seasick mama line.

Nevervista

♥ ↑ ► I have decided to create a new blog devoted only to my artwork, my music, and everything that influences both.
◘ ○ ♪ ♫ I will be posting secret sketchbook drawings as i make them, along with archives of older sketchbooks.
{ ▲ : I will also be documenting my portfolio as it continues to grow, while constantly fighting the battle of downsizing, focusing, and honing my identity.

Julie Heffernan

Julie Heffernan graduated from Yale & makes paintings that speak to me.

I love how hopelessly complex these piles of flora & fauna appear to be, all in romantic technicolor

Sylvia Ji

Sylvia Ji attended Academy of Art Institute in San Francisco. Like Kawasaki, she lets the wood grain show through transparent layers of the erotic art noveau. I'm fond of masks, and I just love her misfits skull faces.

Audrey Kawasaki

Audrey Kawasaki paints beautiful erotic art noveau portraits on wood panels.
She attended the Pratt Institute for two years before deciding that the NY art scene was too conceptual for her tastes. Every now and again, I'm delighted to see her chanelling Ernst Henkel, who is ever popular these days!

Laura Sue Phillips

Laura Sue Phillips graduated from Hunter, and her work is in watercolor. She approaches the medium through realism, which is common for watercolor masters (i'm always interested in ways to challenge that) but her edgy self-portraits in intimate settings with her dog and the way it challenges the viewer's notions of taboo are what i most admire.

reminds me of a sketch i made a couple years ago....

Laura also makes these watercolor "pattern paintings" which must be compass-drawn and look very similar to my machinavista works. I was really excited to see these.

Paloma Crousillat

Paloma Crousillat was born in Lima and graduated from SVA. I am particularly fond of her drawings ---- her line-work and architecture in crisis series, and her "telescopes." This particular image seems to be subject to lens distortion, the way it's perspective pours out of the corner.

Bailey Saliwanchik

Bailey Saliwanchik makes dreamy art nouveau paintings

Sketchbooks

>>>>>browse artist sketchbooks forEVr<<<<<.

James Jean

Do you share my deep love and fascination with artist's sketchbooks?
yes?
well, then, please take a look at artist James Jean ---- he has posted some very beautiful sketches str8 from his moleskines.
---not to mention his amazing finished works.
all quite lovely.

Julie Mehretu

The aesthetic connection between Sarah Sze and Julie Mehretu is almost seamless.
Mehretu is one of my all-time favorite painters, it's easy to see why.
I've had the pleasure of viewing her work first-hand at MoMA, and it's scale is very important... her work is huge.

Sarah Sze

One of my favorite contemporary artists, who i stumbled upon while wandering through the internets, is Sarah Sze. This is the stuff of dreams.
It's tough for me to get into installation, though I fancy myself an installation artist of sorts... i'm also really squeemish about sculpture. Perhaps this is why i'm so captivated by Sze, being both of those things and more + evoking images of Lebbeus Woods, Lee Bontecou, Aleksandr Vesnin, Kandinsky, Julie Mehretu & Hannah Hoch, just to name a few.

Paul Antonson

I'll be featuring some posts on artists and illustrators that i like & the why's.
Check out Village Voice's illustrator Paul Antonson, i like his sketchbook pages.
For the past who knows how many years, Paul has made the voice cover for his Mermaid Parade illustrations.
I've always been a big fan of sketchbooks, leafing through other's, obsessively cataloging and gushing over my own, which i keep next to me on shelves at all times.
Sketchbooks are personal, revealing, honest, magical and precious.

CharmingBlog

Charming Wall is a great little gallery in the West Village with a really fun flash site. Their artists are neat too. Check it out!

Wenceslaus Hollar

I just found out who the artist responsible for my Facebook avatar is.
Wenceslaus Hollar was a Czech etcher born in Prague who lived much of his life in London. He created close to 3000 etchings in his lifetime, all beautiful works on a wide range of subjects.

Sadly, he died in poverty, "his last recorded words being a request to the bailiffs that they would not carry away the bed on which he was dying." - wikipedia

Here is a great collection of his works from the University of Toronto.