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[misterveeare]

Nobody is free until everybody is free

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[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Absolutely obsessed with this caption in the Etienne comic "Jock Itch." I can't find a date for it anywhere, my source wasn't exactly academic, but he was active from the 50s thru the 80s.

[justinbenzel]

In my previous post I wanted to show the progress of my VISION project all together, but I'd also like to share some process photos as well. Lately I've been having a lot of fun creating miniatures out of random objects and food packaging. For example, the body of the space-ship is two plastic mushroom containers glued together, and the engine heat-shield is a soup lid from the deli.

I was one of those kids that loved legos but never liked following the directions, and it's been fun looking at the world in that way with my model-making. I intend to get bigger and weirder with this over time, but hope you all like what I'm coming up with so far!

[bulletbra77]

Some quick collages made in Photoshop combining pictures of my original art and screenshots from the videogames Team Fortress 2, Who's Lila?, and Cruelty Squad.

Titled:

"Cream of Gold"

"Screamin' Spy"

"Squishy Jim"

respectively.

[femcelhottie420]

Counting skittles

[pootietangnem]

Art at the Gall3ry 🏆

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[mysillydoodles]

the point of it all

[supersonicart]

Isabella Mellado.

Exceptional contemporary figurative works from San Juan, Puerto Rico born artist Isabella Mellado.

Mellado, now based in Chicago, is renowned for her magical realist paintings exploring latinidad, queer identity, and tarot, working across various media such as painting, photography, costume design, digital collage, and sculpture.

Mellado's work has been showcased in prestigious venues such as Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, Walter Otero Contemporary Art in San Juan, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair in Miami, The Ponce Biennial in Ponce, and MECA Art Fair in San Juan, among others. She has also participated in residencies at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan, the Studios at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.

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[youngncrazed]

What's an art blog without angsty poetry

[seldomfade]

untitled c. 2019, my original work

Pentax P3, Ilford 400

[misterveeare]

A loving compliment

[tompuschautz]

Nick Cave. MCA. Chicago

[justinbenzel]

Continuing on from my previous posts, I wanted to share some more process and BTS photos for my 'Visions' series. I refer to this one as the "The Terminal", and it was created through a combination of miniatures, studio-photo, and digital matte-painting.

The hall was built from card-stock and random bits I had leftover from previous kit-crashes. The carpet is fine-grain sand-paper. I was very enamored of the natural quality of light spilling through the bay windows, which gave me a fun challenge in matching other photo assets later.

I was not at all sure about how the hard-boiled cat alien would turn out, but I was very pleasantly surprised at the result. It made sense to me narratively that sentient cats would be hairless, and luckily enough a close friend had a couple of sphinxes gracious enough to lend their likenesses :)

Happy Friday, hope everyone has a great weekend.

[jonathanlamantia]

New sticker packs & original art cards are up on my site! Check 'em out here!

Did I mention the sticker packs are on sale? Because they are! (Until Monday) Get some!!

[urbanchicagoan]

Mural portrait of Jean Baptiste Du Sable by Rahman "Statik" Barnes & his team under the Metra tracks along 47th Street (8/3/2023)