Author Archives: Aaron Berger

The Ink of Liz Harris

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Most know Liz Harris as the wonderfully effecting ambient/drone project that is Grouper, but the Portland artist has steadily begun to bring her visual work to the public as well. It makes sense that the source of Grouper’s haunting, rhythmic drive would also produce these meticulous, ghostly patterns and figures. Employing ink on paper, Harris provides images that suck the viewer into her world and spit them back out as quickly as they came. These drawings and prints on paper are concentrated visual doses of a Grouper album’s sonic power, yet maintain a presence all their own. It is clear that Harris has one vision, and is skilled enough to express this (strong) artistic inclination within multiple forms.

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Guy Denning, and the power of the human figure

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Guy Denning of Bristol, UK has been putting out emotive, figurative paintings for almost two decades. He works mostly in oil, perhaps the perfect medium for working with the human figure due to its unique luminous qualities, and he takes the guesswork out of using art as a mirror for the human condition by directly rendering our anguish and strife in muted, stylized tones. He also maintains a pretty awesome daily drawing blog.

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Malark’s work on the streets

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The graphics-heavy street work of Malark, found primarily in and around London and Barcelona, dominates space with color block characters of quirk. But it’s not Malark’s attractive, sharp-toothed chroma buddies that make this stuff so special. What is so attractive about this artist is that he gets up relentlessly, and on all surfaces- walls, cars, trucks, storefronts; and, benevolently, our brains.

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Daniel St. George’s Collage Pop

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Daniel St. George is a fine artist living in Brooklyn, NY who has steadily amassed a body of work that is equal parts entertaining, eclectic, and engrossing. St. George  blends elements of collage, printmaking, painting, and drawing  to create clever inverted representations of classic cartoon and pop icons; often placed into dynamic interaction with a found paperback leaf or music score in a personal, methodical context that is all his own.

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Zero Cents- Casual Carnality

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Zero Cents is a Tel Aviv-based artist  with a furious repertoire of grotesque, figurative imagery. Found both in galleries and on walls, these works go beyond  the average “get-under-your-skin” fare, as they are rendered in a seemingly care-free, playful fashion. Taking us right to the point where we may be too overwhelmed by subject matter to connect, Zero Cents redeems everything with light dustings of spray paint, undeniably human brushstrokes, and sardonic installations.

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Henry Gunderson

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If you haven’t heard of Henry Gunderson, you aren’t paying attention. The California young blood has experienced an extremely meteoric entrance into the public eye over the past two years. Gunderson, now in his second year at SFAI,  secured his first solo exhibition, with FFDG of San Francisco, at the tender age of eighteen.

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Shoboshobo

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It seems there is nothing that Paris-based  performance/design/art collective Shoboshobo cannot do. Led by Mehdi Hercberg though faceless, the group covers entire map of artistic expression. Responsible for countless exhibitions, books, installations, design projects, and oddball acts of goofiness, Shoboshobo is a reliable source for inspiration, intrigue, and  confusion.

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