This year, autumn has been a completely new experience for me. Having never experienced a full autumn outside of my home in northeast Florida ( short trips north don’t really count ), one of the things I was most…
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Vintage photos and ephemera, bright colors against faded backgrounds, pop culture iconography.. these are a few of my favorite things and they can all be found in the work of Melody Postma. This Clearwater, FL native and graduate of…
Technology is taking over ya’ll. Almost every aspect of our lives is touched by technology in one way or another. The art world is no different. For today’s round-up, take a look at a few artists embracing the digital…
Maybe you beg to differ with that title. But I’m here to present to you Gainesville, FL artist Amy Vigilante, who does indeed create artistically meaningful, strikingly graphic quilts. These aren’t your grandma’s bedspreads. Vigilante’s quilts are modern interpretations…
Growing up, I wanted to be Audrey Hepburn. Or Doris Day. Or any of the beautiful, plucky, well-dressed heroines of the 50’s and 60’s. I longed for the “good ol’ days”. When women dressed up in hats and gloves…
There is no doubt that the US as a country, heck, the earth as a planet even, seems to have an obsession with celebrity. There is something about the famous ( and infamous ) that fascinates us. Artists are…
To go along with yesterday’s post featuring Haley Farthing, today’s post presents partner in Out of the Woods show currently up at Davis & Cline in Ashland, sculptor Christian Burchard. The work of these two artists compliment each other…
The moment I walked through the doors of Davis & Cline in Ashland, I fell hard for the work of Haley Farthing. Immediately, they drew me in, I had to take a closer look. What exactly was I seeing?…
The art world is a strange, small place. How else do you explain that I saw an artist’s work on the website of a Boston gallery, which I stumbled upon through searching for another artist, only to discover that…
Ninety-nine percent of the time I completely love my life in the Pacific Northwest. But occasionally, there is that nagging little 1% that longs to be back in my hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, just so that I can be…