Lauren Pakradooni holds an MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her interdisciplinary work incorporates drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and sound. She gravitates towards exploring space, making use of the graphic qualities of print, enveloping character of sound, and the literal space of sculpture and performance. She has exhibited and performed ...
For several years, Pat Shannon sustained what she describes as an extended non-verbal dialogue with newspapers.
Marie Gardeski is an American artist living in Indiana. She creates small, delicately detailed drawings featuring seemingly sweet subjects in strange (and sometimes slightly scary) situations.
The daughter of Greek immigrants, Polixeni Papapetrou is an Australian-born photographer whose work has received international acclaim. She left her job as a lawyer when she was 41 to devote herself to photography, and since then she has produced a sensitive and visionary body of work. Papapetrou's two children, Olympia and Solomon, are the subjects ...
Nike Schroeder lives and sews in Berlin.
Tara Marynowsky is an Australian artist based in Sydney. She is a mixed-media artist who primarily works with watercolours. Her work depicts surreal characters and spiritual meetings. She explores themes of beauty, horror, love and loss.
Kate Russo draws with colored pencil on graph paper.
From Leanne Shapton's 2006 book, Was She Pretty?
Katherine Gallagher received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Currently, she is an Adjunct Professor at Gulf Coast State College in the Visual and Performing Arts Department. She has previously taught at the University of Tennessee and participated in a teaching workshop at the Kansas City Art ...
"Reverie," from Cathy G. Johnson's Practicing Degenerates series.
Rachel B. Glaser is a writer and painter living in Northampton, MA. Recently, she has been painting basketball players. Jane Bowles is her hero.
Artist Wendy MacNaughton made this just for Brain Pickings, in collaboration with the remarkable Maria Popova.
Shurooq Amin is a Kuwaiti/Syrian artist and poet. Her paintings can be found at the Bayan Palace/Amiri Diwan (Kuwait), the Museum of Modern Art (Kuwait), OPEC headquarters (Vienna), the Shiseido company (Paris) and in private collections all over the world.
Jenny Scobel’s portraits are executed in graphite and oil paint on prepared wooden panels. Her next show opens September 20th, 2012 at the Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, New York City.
Jen Davis is a photographer living in Brooklyn. For the past 9 years she has been working on a series of self-portraits. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2008, and her BA from Columbia College Chicago in 2002. Davis is represented by Lee Marks Fine Art.
To view Holly Go Lightly in its entirety, click here. Gabby Gabby is the author of three e-books. Her chapbook, Airplane Food, is forthcoming from NAP (2012) and a full length collection of poems, Tiny Clothes for Tiny People, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms (2014). She has been published in Metazen and various other online publications.
Untitled 19, 3:00 pm - 8:30 pm, February 4, 2012 Plexiglas, Tambour, Everlast boxing wraps, string Dimensions variable Julia Dault is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In 2012, she will participate in "The Ungovernables," the New Museum's second Triennial; "Inside the White Cube," at White Cube Bermondsey; "Roundtable," the Ninth Gwangju Biennale; and "Rotary Connection" at ...
“Marriage Is A Legal Fiction,” excerpt clipping from vintage romance novel, matchbox, two burnt matches. 2010.
Indaia Whitcombe is a photographer and writer. She is currently a Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow through the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She lives and works in South Boston.
By Andrea Morales, first appeared on Soul of Athens.