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Earth Island Journal - Chris Jordan, Running the Numbers. Also, Edward...
The Spring 2011 edition of Earth Island Journal features the artwork of Chris Jordan. Here's a description of his project, Running the Numbers II: Portraits of Global Mass Culture, in his own words:...
View ArticleThe Fantastic Art of Alexis Rockman
Here are some beautiful and borderline-surreal paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Alexis Rockman, who is one of the most skilled painters alive. Some of these canvases are enormous (a few measure 8x24...
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How to Build a Bookshelf out of Books
1. Gather your collection of read and unread cheap or free paperback books (the thinner the better) that you are willing to desecrate by drilling holes into them. 2. Greatly underestimate the time...
View ArticleThe Einar Jónsson Museum
One of Iceland’s greatest artists is sculptor Einar Jónsson (possibly the most easily pronounceable of Icelandic names; he lived from 1874 - 1954). The Einar Jónsson Museum in Reykjavik houses...
View ArticleFunny Icelandic Street Names
Here are some pictures of street signs in Reykjavik. I suppose they're not funny if you can speak Icelandic, which sounds like this. I suppose this isn't art either, but as Johannes S. Kjarval...
View ArticleA Little Slice of Hell
The quaint cheese town of Gruyères, Switzerland is home to the H.R Giger Museum, where hundreds of Giger’s (1940 - 2014) paintings adorn the walls. The paintings, some of which take up the space...
View ArticleDalí Theatre and Museum
Here are some photographs of artwork from the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Spain. The museum is in Salvador Dalí’s hometown, and houses a great collection of his paintings, drawings,...
View ArticleChihuly - A Galaxy of Glass
Dale Chihuly’s Garden and Glass museum in Seattle showcases gigantic, fantastical glass sculptures. Words that come to mind are: imaginative, visionary, aquatic, vitrified, glass, smash,...
View ArticleThe Gates of Hell
The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical. Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation...
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Sea Tree
Here are two blurry photographs of sculpture of a “Sea Tree” that I made early last year. The medium here is wood, seaweed, shells, other dead sea creatures, plastic dinosaurs, rocks, and titanium,...
View ArticleThe Nicholas Roerich Museum
The Nicholas Roerich Museum features the sweeping, fantastical, and phantasmagorical paintings of the eponymous dead Russian artist, and is a located in a beautiful brownstone house in the Upper West...
View ArticleThe de Young Museum of San Francisco
What follows are two slideshows of photos of paintings taken at the de Young Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco. The first slideshow features some of the beautiful paintings of the museum’s collection,...
View ArticleKatsushikia Hokusai, Images from Hokusai: First Manga Master
I checked out the book Hokusai: First Manga Master from the library last week and below are scanned images of some of the pieces I enjoyed most from the book. Hokusai, one of Japan's greatest artists,...
View ArticleSpace Palm Trees and Beach Scene Terrarium
Here is a slideshow of a sculpture that I made mostly of objects I collected on California beaches. The palm tree trunks are metal, and the leaves are beetle wings. With the exception of some...
View ArticleBasilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is the nation's largest Catholic church. You don't have to be religious to appreciate the beauty of certain places of worship (all mine...
View ArticleThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City contains the third largest collection of paintings and sculptures in the world - the second largest being at the London Gallery of Art, and the single...
View ArticleAuckland Art Gallery
Last month I was fortunate enough to visit the Auckland Art Gallery, which houses a surprisingly impressive array of fine art in the museum’s painting and sculpture collection, which is the most...
View ArticleTower of Sea Creatures
The below slideshow features photos of a sculpture I made and gave to my brother and his wife. It’s now sitting on a counter in their dining room and chances are they aren’t even using it. The...
View ArticleSculptures and Butterfly Farms
Below are three slideshows of four sculptures I’ve worked on over the past year. Two were complete and are intact, one remains incomplete, and one was destroyed. (The “butterfly branch, which was...
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