Love these paintings by Ryan Browning. Maryland.

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Drawings by Billy Sprague.

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Chris Wilson cakes the canvas in sexy mystery.  Temptresses, Sirens, Punk Rock Queens and Fallen Goddesses grace his haunted imagery.  The texture in his work is so tangible your eyes can taste the grit.  As he rises in the art scene, I most definitely suggest you keep not one, but two eyes watching Mr. Wilson.  If you’re free this Friday evening, Chris is showing in a group exhibition at Tempo Royale (@ Wilshire Royale – 2619 Wilshire Blvd.) …I know I’ll be there!

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The lovely Zoë Barker has been in touch to let us know a few things. She’s recently launched her website and was interviewed for Amelia’s magazine. Still to come is a contribution to Patrick Fry’s three next No.Zines. and an exhibition with Jonathan Cherry exploring the ‘local’ in rural Britain. Great to see some old school pencil skills alive and kicking!

If you like what you see check out her tumblr blog here

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Watch the video ->

COFA Annual 2009 Exhibition - College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia 
 
It’s a big event on the Sydney art calendar - every year, for one night, thousands of artists, students, academics, curators and members of the public pack the College of Fine Arts (COFA) to see the most interesting works made by final year students at The University of New South Wales art school. The exhibition is called COFA Annual 2009 

Hit play, and you’ll see some of what they saw - smoking heads, an endless flood of spilt milk, an army tank made from office refuse, and a lot more - a stunning collection of work across every medium you can think of…

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Al Heighton dropped us a line to some very nice new work that he’s recently posted onto his site.

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Artist/illustrator Andre Azevedo sent a note that he has updated his website with a new layout and some hip fashion-inspired new work. There is a ton of new work actually and some of it is pretty fun to look at.

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Drawings by Stacey Rozich.

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The artwork of Justin Bryan Nelson has this folk-like quality with minimum colors and symbolic imagery that not much is needed in the drawings to appreciate its symbolic and rather mysterious illustration. What I like about them, it’s just how delicately done the pencil and ink marks are on the illustrations but also how the artwork revolves around one main subject, without cluttering the audience.

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Taylor McKimens is one of my favorite artists, ever since finding his comic book “The Drips,” his work has been on my radar.  So, using my new blogging gig here at Beautiful/Decay as a good reason to see his studio – I went over to Taylor’s studio at Deitch Projects in New York.  I had to ask the perfunctory question about what was happening with Deitch Projects, and he said things depended on several variables – and didn’t go into any details.  His work in progress completely blew me out of the water, and I walked around with my mouth open like a tween at a Jonas Brothers concert.

Turns out we both grew up in working class families and had spent time working in factories, Taylor listed a bunch of his artist friends who also worked in factories including Misaki Kawai who dressed in a sterile full body outfit while making sandwiches on a conveyor belt.

I said something like “You must really be into R. Crumb,” and Taylor responded saying that was a common misconception, and went on to give a super thoughtful response about why he was not that into R. Crumb.  Taylor explained that he and Crumb both use the language of comics to make images, and that Crumb did something new and made his comics about ordinary people up to a point, but that Crumb’s comics still had the over-the-top kind of drama that are in most other comics.  Taylor said “I’m into anti-drama.”

I asked about the patches and decals on the characters in the paintings, and Taylor said it added to the people in the paintings – that he was interested in adding complexity.  He wants the characters to defy stereotypes like most people in life defy stereotyping.  “There’s people that like some of this, and people that like some of that, and they’re just people,” he said in a laid back voice.

This painting is for Donald Baechler, it is meant to have the same silhouette as one of Baechler’s paintings.

There was a table filled with drawings…

This painting is so beautiful, I could look at it all day.

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