ART




more in art

Makeout Creek Presents Nick Kuszyk’s Jammer Slammer

Check it out, folks--R. Nicholas Kuszyk, the VA-born, New York-based artist who made recent appearances both at the RVA Street Art Festival and within the pages of our print magazine, has just joined forces with Richmond literary magazine Makeout Creek to present his...

ART FEED: Blown Apart Animals with Nychos

Mixing skate, hotrod and comic book cultures, Nychos is creating a funny albeit gross visual vocabulary on a super large scale. Residing in London and working with contemporaries like ROA, Pixel Pancho and Flying Fortress at street art festivals has raised his profile...

Seven Days Of Karaoke In RVA

As the lights go down, a wave of silence ripples through a crowd eager to know who the next gladiator to enter the ring will be. When your name is called, an initial lump forms in your throat, as if the date of your funeral was just announced. You stand up and...

RVA No. 9: Nick Kuszyk

VA-born, New York-based artist R. Nicholas Kuszyk is best known for his robots. He’s shown his colorful, eye-catching work in galleries all over the world, and even put his robots into book form with a children’s book, R Robot Saves Lunch, released by Penguin in 2010....

Hanging Out With Futura2000!

He was sitting on a bench, smoking a Camel non-filter. I ordered a Hennessy and Ginger right before I was distracted by friends. We schmoozed with other media types, musicians, and artists, all rubbing elbows furiously like rats between sheetrock. I looked back in his...

An Interview with Artist Jeff Soto

Of all the art world heavy hitters that came through RVA over the last few months, Jeff Soto just might be the heaviest. Initially inspired as a high-school student in the late 80s by pictures of New York subway art, Soto spent the 90s making a name for himself, both...

DC Intergalactic SpeakEasy – This weekend!

The Intergalactic SpeakEasy DC is happening on Saturday, August 11th 2012. The Intergalactic SpeakEasy DC is happening on Saturday, August 11th 2012. Party Liberation Front (PLF), from here in Richmond, and Mischief from DC, are once again teaming up for the...

Futura Is Coming To RVA!

Legendary street artist Futura will be hitting the streets of Richmond VA this Friday! Futura, who got his start painting on the New York subways back in the 70s when that was still possible, soon built a legally-approved artistic career, beginning with his 80s era...

Grape Cloth x West Coast Kix Unite To Help Japan

Catastrophe strikes when we seem to be the most comfortable. Trends come and go, interests shift and we fixate on aspirations and dreams while willfully becoming blind to inevitable tragedy. Catastrophe strikes when we seem to be the most comfortable. Trends come and go, interests shift and we fixate on aspirations and dreams while willfully...

Read More

grapejapan.jpg

ART FEED : Greg Gossel

When I first saw the work of Greg Gossel, I immediately thought he was one of the guys in FAILE. He isn't but you can see how their work runs along the same lines. Collage heavy, sourced from comic and newspapers, loosely defined action or statements moving in and out of the finished piece with just enough of the human touch to make it completely...

Read More

bad-dads-greg-gossel.jpg

Cuts @ Day Tripper Gallery

I was doing school in November full time, pretty much completely slammed. I missed my friends and figured that since I was pretty much tied down with school, I'd like a good, productive excuse to get in touch with them more. So I decided to put together a book on this website called Blurb.com. I'd seen my friend Travis Conner put a book together...

Read More

cuts5.jpg

The VCU Senior Design Show Today!

Ever want to see the future? Sure we all do but unless you have some kind of bathtub time machine you are probably like the rest of us. (Waiting on the rapture of course!) But when thinking about the future, we should remember the wisdom of that old crackhead Whitney Houston, that children are "the future" and it so happens "the future" is...

Read More

IMG_0029.jpg

CO-TE-RIE, a group show at Ghostprint Gallery.

A group of five international artists will be showing at Ghostprint Gallery this upcoming First Friday. A collection that spans from illustration to abstract to representational painting, the show has a alittle something for everybody. Alexander Klingspor from Sweden, Tiffen Python from France, and three Americans—Jim Burke, Doug Chayka and Kevin...

Read More

ghostprintshow.jpg

ART FEED: Our Interview w/ Gaia

Throughout the history of street art there have been those who give voice to popular sentiment and radical thought, and those who prophesize, who paint a universal Ides of March warning to a societal identity of royalty and entitlement. They pierce the veil of specificity with timeless symbolism and mark the shoulders of our blinded road to...

Read More

gaiastreetart.jpg

ART FEED: Johnny Selman’s BBCX365

Virginia native and Frisco resident Johnny Selman set out on the 365 day mission by creating a poster a day based off a current BBC headline. He hopes by creating a more visual element it will compel the audience to look deeper into the article and eventually stir more of an interest in world news with the American public. Check out Johnny's...

Read More

bbc14.jpg

ART FEED: Space Suit of the Week

The Fox Is Black is a very popular blog among the design/art community and one of the things I check out is the weekly sci-fi space suit pics. Thought I would share a selection with you. More information on The Fox Is Black below the break. The Fox Is Black is a very popular blog among the design/art community and one of the things I check out is...

Read More

Liebowitz1-576x734.jpg

DAILY FIX : UNCRATED/RECREATED

UNCRATED/RECREATED UNCRATED/RECREATED from Todd Raviotta on Vimeo. Uncrated/Recreated was a fashion show benefit for the Richmond Animal League and was held at Studio 8 West, Richmond, Virginia on April 3, 2011. by Todd Raviotta of Natural Science Productions

Read More