Kindrid Spirits form Art Duo, Mad Tatters
Mad Tatters, an artist duo made up of Brandan Styles and Ellie Rusinova, seeks to immerse any who dare in a world of their own creation. It is a world quite different than the one we know, a post apocolyptic landscape where isolation and loneliness replace never-ending interconnectivity. Drawing upon the aesthetics of vaudville, steampunk, circuses and carnivals, Mad Tatters is a conceptual vision realized through the combined efforts of Styles and Rusinova using painting, sculpture, music, and fashion. Brandon Styles Robot Boy 1 Brandon Styles Robot Boy 2 Styles, a.k.a, Dr. B. Zerk, trained in animation, veered from the commercial arts path ult...Read more
Ricky Swallow
Good woodworking is defined by craft but also in part by the object or design that is being made and how it functions or what it says. Ricky Swallow executes his work with the skill and attention to detail of a true craftsmen while also possessing the unique vision of an artist. Swallow recreates and contrasts the natural and the man-made in a way that comments on what tools and materials are necessities and how they will interact with the planet once abandoned. His sculptures, though still, become one connected object with accurate depictions of both inanimate and living things. When so carefully working with this kind of subject matter, of course...Read more
The Ill Art of AJ Fosik and his 3D Beasts
AJ Fosik's brightly colored wood animal heads look like the mounted trophies of a big game hunter just back from an expedition to the island of Doctor Moreau where he found, shot and stuffed the savage love children of a bucket of dayglow paint, the Chupacabra, that creepy talking wolf from the Neverending Story and the Wild Things. Thankfull Fosik's vicious looking beast, which combine folk art and street insensibilities, are harmless representations of an artists ferocious imagination. AJ Fosik Artist Profile from Kwality Media on Vimeo....Read more