‘Peanuts: Seasons’ by Chris Thornley
May 25, 2022
Since emerging from the imagination of Charles Schulz in 1950, The Peanuts characters have told the stories of holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter.
Fiction: ‘What We Call Our Own’ by Chris Jalufka
April 1, 2022
She said she could sing and I believed her. It was easier than having to hear her demonstrate her vocal tones. From the back of the car she pounded her fists against my head rest, laughing, the sharp points of her heels digging into the vinyl that covered the driver’s seat.
A Brief Look:
The Haunted Daylight of Artist Ben Turner
March 2, 2022
UK based illustrator Ben Turner casts his work under haunted daylight — his figures illuminated by the feature-reducing burn of the sun. A naturally figurative artist, Turner ground s each design element into the fabric of the canvas, the color and forms, scaffolding holding the figure in place.
A Brief Look: The Poster Art of Heather Monahan
May 1, 2022
There is a subtle loveliness to the work of Heather Monahan (aka Cheeky Design). In her illustrated poster for Hal Ashby’s cult classic film Harold & Maude, the line work has a decorative flow, the likenesses of the film’s stars traced with deliberate weight and form.
Living Color:
Florence Blanchard's Infinite Paintings
May 20, 2022
Within the art of Florence Blanchard is abstraction with purpose — shape and color following the natural order of things, of life.
Giddy & Garish:
The Airbrush Work of Mashine
March 31, 2022
The madness created by artist Mashine has the familiarity of boardwalk street art, the garish colors of airbrushed names on blank over-sized tees. She plays with the expected crowd-pleasing beachside visuals of bikini girls, cartoon characters, and cute animals, yet her version of airbrush art is relentlessly irreverent, giddy by the simple beauty and joy of imagining a thing, and then creating that thing.
