Author Archives: artstudio

MIST: Do you believe in life after life?

Made In Southeast Texasby Julia Rodriquez Caitie Lightfoot, aka @thearfterlifeart, creates macabre art from the remains of woodland creatures whose lives were ended naturally, their bones found on afternoon walks, or by hunters, whose bones are casualties for taxidermists, useless on a wall. Having access to bones as a child, Caitie began painting designs on

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in the pop-up: ‘The Beauty of Wood’ puts handcarved, exotic wood on display

By Eleanor Skelton Woodcarving has been Richard Spinney’s hobby for half a century. He creates both abstract and more realistic pieces with all types of wood. He carves and his wife paints some of his finished pieces. “I just finished a couple of seagulls, and they’re about half life-size,” he said. “We’re doing a flying

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Allegory of Light by Travis Walthall

“Recalibration of Realities” embraces dream-like contemporary surrealism with schizoid space journey, and apocalyptic strangeness of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Eleanor Skelton People often process difficult circumstances through art. The COVID-19 pandemic and 2020’s vibe that the world we knew is over is filtering through our collective consciousness into the art world.  These are the main themes that surface in a new show at The Art Studio, coming this fall.  “Recalibration of Realities” will

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New Historiography for Black Excellence: Jamal Cyrus “The End of My Beginning” at the Blaffer Art Museum

by Caitlin Duerler Chávez At the 1900 Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Dubois presented an award-winning display of “data portraits”—colorful depictions of demographics of African Americans post-slavery through the turn of the century. Information such as the large concentration of Black people in southern states and the total value of their financial assets were illustrated in a

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