Adam Handler and Peter Opheim: Warriors and Ghosts

Janice K. Johnson

Adam Handler and Peter Opheim: Warriors and GhostsDecember 9th – January 14th 2023GR Gallery255 Bowery (between Houston & Stanton)New YorkNY 10002 “Warriors and Ghosts“, a joint exhibition by artists Peter Opheim and Adam Handler, features 22 works that challenge the exhibition title. The duo unleash an assortment of ghostly paintings […]

Greg Mike, Max Sansing, PichiAvo, Mr. June & More

Janice K. Johnson

Adding sixteen new murals to Downtown Cincinnati, BLINK, the nation’s largest light and art festival, took place last month for the first time since 2019. The cleverly captivating artwork featured above was painted by Atlanta-based Greg Mike. Several more murals — all captured by by travel and street photographer Karin du […]

Adjaye Associates, MVRDV Toshiko Mori Among The Finalists For Portland Museum Of Art’s Expansion — Portland Museum of Art

Janice K. Johnson

This article appears in World Architecture. Nov 29, 2022 The Portland Museum of Art has announced the four finalists for its campus unification and expansion in Portland, Maine, United States.  The four finalists are Adjaye Associates, Lever Architecture, MVRDV and Toshiko Mori Architect + Johnston Marklee + Preston Scott Cohen.  […]

Nocturne Notes – Dan Mondloch

Janice K. Johnson

Nocturne Notes Dan Mondloch   Campfire Time               11 x 15″           Watercolor           © Don Mondloch    In a 2016 interview with The Artist’s Road, Dan Mondloch wrote, “When painting plein air, a lot of times I like to bite off way more than […]

Making Matters. A Vocabulary for Collective Arts – We Make Money Not Art

Janice K. Johnson

Making Matters. A Vocabulary for Collective Arts, edited by Janneke Wesseling and Florian Cramer. Published by Valiz*. Making Matters formulates the importance for artists of working as collectives, especially if they hope to address meaningfully crushing ecological and social problems. Joining a collective often means allying with other disciplines, multiplying […]

Artist Interview: Tania Marmolejo – StreetArtNews

Janice K. Johnson

Tania Marmolejo Andersson is a Swedish-Dominican American artist born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her work juxtaposes the intimate and personal with the monumental, creating large-scale paintings of ambiguous female facial expressions. She also explores issues of gender and identity as a Scandinavian-Caribbean female artist, using portraiture and physical expression […]