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Spring 2021 Cover Story: Yusuke Hanai and a Most Happy Balance

Yasuki Hanai’s surfers, tipsy revelers and peaceful family of protestors, are neither victor nor victim. The surfer is one with the wave, the drinkers are propped up by gravity and each other, March 01, 2021

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Maria Qamar: The Essence of Hatecopy

While most of the world has been scrambling to figure out how to take their work digital, Maria Qamar (AKA Hatecopy) has been riding that wave since she first began making art for public consumption February 01, 2021

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Bianca Nemelc: Soul of the Earth

Four coconuts bobbing in the glow of a golden round orb, tickled by a frame of large green agave plants.

 January 25, 2021

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Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: You’re in America

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe wants you to feel seen. And I mean that sincerely. It is at the heart of what he does. In every brushstroke, every flower, every mouth covered and eyeball exposed. He is method January 11, 2021

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Trey Abdella: Still In Detention

Tom and Jerry was created by two young cartoonists under the age of 30, convinced there was no need for dialogue if you provided non-stop action and visual humor. In a hundred different ways, at a hu January 04, 2021

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David “Mr. StarCity” White: The Year of the Big Bless

A few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Dave—widely known as Mr. StarCity—in Los Angeles on occasion of his gallery solo exhibition, a medley of color-filled, figurative paintings and port December 28, 2020

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Danica Lundy: The Art of Extended Release

I can recall the first time I saw Danica Lundy’s work in person, marveling at how the  layering, perspective and dimension of her visuals seemed to open before my eyes, how a gravelly surface December 21, 2020

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Brian Calvin: The Waiting Game

Just before I got on the phone with Ojai, California-based painter, Brian Calvin, I wrote a little note to myself: “Bridging the gap.” I wasn’t sure how this was going to infiltrate our convers December 14, 2020

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Amani Lewis: More Blessed to Give (Winter 2021 Cover Story)

For Amani Lewis, the portraits are much more than a likeness. Mapping inner landscapes of beloved subjects and layering materials that speak to a true human essence, they portray a lived experience a December 02, 2020

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Justin Liam O’Brien: A Freed Style

Through the chaos and divide that America has gone through in 2020, from the minor ups and tragic and enduring lows, moments of clarity emerge.

 November 05, 2020

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Laura Berger: Body Language

Laura Berger headed to the coasts of Costa Rica for her first great escape, and the shores still tug mightily. She’s a Midwestern gal, born and bred, a firmly centered one at that, but like the sym November 02, 2020

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Marcela Pardo Ariza: Try a Little Tenderness

Absolute joy was palpable as I watched Marcela Pardo Ariza take portraits of the back of folks’ heads for a theatrical composition.

 October 19, 2020
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