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A Retrospectacular Interview with Artist Matt Ritchie
February 1, 2013Matt Ritchie‘s Retrospectacle is an epic, yet understated, genre-defying art show open for one more weekend at the Olive Hyde Art Guild in the Bay Area city of Fremont. Perhaps you’re reading this interview on Monday and thinking: “Rats! I … Continue reading
Meet T9G’s Newest Character Toy: PeaKY
January 2, 2013Japanese toymakers T9G always put on an interesting show. They just closed up Nest, a 2-week toy art and customized sofubi exhibition at Minority Rev in Hirao. The toy show saw the debut of T9G’s latest character creation, PeaKY. T9G … Continue reading
A Toy Photographer’s “Adult Wims”
November 2, 2012On darker days, it’s good to have a Ryan Roberts. The Nashville-based designer and photographer (who brought us this 2012 toy a day calendar) is readying to deploy a host of new toy vignettes and inventive holidays for 2013. Setting … Continue reading
Up Close With the Characters of Tim Burton’s New Film, Frankenweenie
July 24, 2012I’m usually much too important of a person to wait in line for things, but upon the recommendation of sculptor/designer Chauskoskis and a peek through the window, I knew I needed to queue up to see the sets, dioramas, props and … Continue reading
Chris Ryniak for Comic-Con 2012
July 9, 2012Unfortunately, Chris Ryniak will not in attendance at Comic-Con this year, but his presence will be felt nonetheless. Ryniak, who loves nature, partnered with Ink It Labs to create a dimensional woodcut diorama. “Bugglestump Forest” is a custom-inked wood pop-out featuring Sitty Headleaf. … Continue reading
Dutch People in Vegetable Houses
January 12, 2012From Stefan Gross, the same artist who brought us Doomies and Rebirdy, comes something best described in acronym form: WTF? These photos are a combination of dioramas and digital intervention featuring a diverse array of Dutch people posing inside of … Continue reading
“I Could Do That.” “Yeah, But You Didn’t.”
October 7, 2011Wisdom when viewing modern art. Courtesy of Floating Dreams from 2009 by Filipe Pinto Soares. Have a good weekend, folks.
Lisa Swerling’s Glass Cathedrals
August 4, 2011Lisa Swerling was born in South Africa, grew up in England and now lives outside San Francisco. Her Glass Cathedrals are a series of artboxes containing tiny worlds and small statements about our complicated lives. She’s been making the Glass … Continue reading
Catherine Coan’s Canary Suicides
Written on December 11, 2012 by jeremyCatherine Coan creates dioramas of suicides starring canary birds. The Canary Suicides are meditations on captivity, miniature embodiment, the pet as fetish and the relationship between death and delight. They are influenced by the medieval reliquary; the work of Rauschenberg, … Continue reading →