Art Hound

This work is by Brooklyn-based Art and People. While I chose to feature Art and People’s wildlife scenes which with their dark, subdued palette reminds me of Rosseau, it is fascinating to look through the rest of the artist’s extremely varied body of work.

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Devon Tsuno works on handmade paper from Japan and India. The artist’s bio reads: “Los Angeles-native Devon Tsuno paints with spray paint and acrylic. His recent body of abstract paintings on handmade papers focuses on the LA landscape’s non-native vegetation.” The layering of 2-D vegetation in Devon’s work has a really awesome effect. To me these pieces are evocative of the setting sun and the shadows created at different levels as the sun disappears into the horizon.

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Erika Schmidt-Lawlor’s series Meanwhile, The Arctic Melts includes some of the most exquisite collages I’ve ever seen. There’s a remarkable balance of aesthetic force and subtly.

“The collage sensibility, in my work, reflects one of the premises of Indian mysticism that can be described as the “unselving” of objects, dissolving the individual in a world of separate things by a vision of endless change.”

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This is Cari Vander Yacht’s watercolor series Plants in the Back. It consists of one part lush foliage, one part human waste and one part irony. The girl is good.

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I saw photos of NYC artist Amelia Bauer’s 2008 show Environs on Seesaw, and decided I had to check her out. The photos below are all from that same show at Capricious in Brooklyn. It’s always kind of funny when you happen upon a new artist and then realize you’re looking at their work from years back.

In the installation shots I love her use of negative space. The space is so serene and calming – like she transported the best parts of nature inside. I’d very happily transport that wall into my living room if I could.

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Bauer is taking part in the same group show at Capricious in Williamsburg which opens tomorrow.

Photographs by Romina Bacci of Miles of Light, a Texan artist and graphic designer with “Italian blood.” I absolutely love her bare-bones, naturalistic aesthetic which really strikes a cord in our chaotic, digitized day and age. These photos are just so inspiring and calming and make me want to redesign my whole life around the “less is more” philosophy.

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I believe there’s beauty and magic in the real. In the simple things, every single day in our own personal worlds. At home, around the corner, in the streets we walk, in the routine. I like to think of my work as a journal, and a journey, a diary that documents the history of life, happening, changing, never ending; it’s own essence, inevitably mixed with my own. Photography to me is a connection between reality and dreams. A way of seeing who and where we are, have been; a way of telling real stories, of identifying the pieces, the trace we leave everywhere we go, our own essence. – Romina Bacci

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