Art Hound

Stephanie Dotson’s work is at once gritty, morose, effervescent and cartoony.

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Little Paper Planes is best known for bringing you oodles of prints by talented young artists, but now they are putting on exhibits – with the same quality and coolness as you’d expect from Kelly and her crew. LPP recently launched Abstraction in Canada which is curated by Otino Corsano and appears to be their most ambitious show so far, with 10 artists. I was particularly taken with the muddy, neo-fauvist work of Gary Evans, below. The rest of the show is also worth checking out if you’re into abstract work.

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Allison Miller at Susan Inglett via Hyperallergic. Unlike a lot of the sleeker abstract work out there, Allison’s work feels very hand-made, very human. The patterns found in her work are as simple as they come. The work feels like it has a mysterious narrative all it’s own – told and then hidden under layers of paint.

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Ryan Sarah Murphy’s cardboard collage work via Pinterest. Pretty stunning, huh?

I make abstract, sculptural collages using found and collected cardboard and book covers. I am interested in how these materials, in their simplicity, variety and wide abundance, can be cut and formed into quiet surfaces teeming with both geographical and emotional underpinnings. (The collages) reference architecture, landscape and the topographical intersection of urban & natural environments…

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Liza Sylvestre lives in Miami and creates wonderfully vibrant, moody art in both a large and small scale.

“Liza Sylvestre was born in South Minneapolis, Minnesota… Sylvestre’s early life and adolescence was defined by a significant and progressive hearing loss. Communication became increasingly dependent on small details that she became sensitive to. This simple physical fact created a very distinct lens through which she processed the world, and continues to process the world.”

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Paige Anderson is an artist from Utah whose work is an exploration of her family and ancestry.

My most recent project represents what I have found while discovering my ancestry: repetition, consistency, veiled connections… Methodical processes also underscore the connection my work has to traditional women’s work—like quilting—as well as daily family rituals, ceremony and pursuing genealogical research… My work also explores the idea that I am but one of a string of genetically linked individuals. This notion has profound implications;… that I am but part of a grand causality. 

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