Body language speaks louder than words. Many times, our posture and expression may belie what we’re really thinking, despite the words coming out of our mouths. The paintings of Santa Fe artist Ali Cavanaugh shout with quiet profundity. Cavanaugh’s…
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Note: The title of this post is a reference to the original Dead or Alive song, not more recent versions featuring people who are possibly young enough to be my children. Children of the 80s unite! I love art…
Advertising imagery has become such an integral part of our cultural landscape that products are often instantly recognizable simply by their logos. Like his Pop Art predecessors before him, Jacksonville, FL artist Mark George takes inspiration from the inescapable…
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m far from a wild child. I tend to be calm, controlled, even-tempered. Maybe that’s why I’m drawn to abstract expressionist work like a moth to a flame. And the work of Delray…
Sometimes the simplest work can be the most powerful. I’m really drawn to these graphic, color-blocked paintings by Dwayne Butcher that I’ve posted over on Escape Into Life today. Go check ’em out! Dwayne Butcher on Escape Into Life…
So often, when we see gems & minerals, it is rarely in their natural state. After they’ve been cut and polished and set, they seem to lose some of their inherent beauty and mystery. Toronto artist Carly Waito pays homage…
As soon as we are born, we begin to die. That may be a gloomy thought, but we begin the circle of life at birth and it seems, now more than ever, we fight as hard as we can…
Pretty sure I read in the latest InStyle Magazine ( we all have our guilty pleasures! ) that polka dots are big for spring. Maybe it’s the influence of Damien Hirst’s spot paintings. Here are some more artists marking…
There is a quiet power that abides in certain landscapes that compels us to humilty. No cell phone reception, no internet, no traffic whizzing by. Nothing to make us believe we are the center of the universe. Just earth…
Living in places with so many wild areas, whenever we go out hiking, we’re still very aware of man’s impact on the landscape. Salt Lake City artist Thomas D. Aaron brings attention to the natural landscape and the effect…