The Gallery: Carrie Marill's Big Small Town
Carrie Marill's intricate drawings of flora and fauna have been featured on Apartment Therapy before, but the artist's newest body of work veers in a different direction. Her 2008 series of painting...
Carrie Marill's intricate drawings of flora and fauna have been featured on Apartment Therapy before, but the artist's newest body of work veers in a different direction. Her 2008 series of painting...
John Murphy is one of those rare artists who pays as much attention to the frame as the work inside. It's probably safe to say that the frames make these artworks, which are very much about objectho...
The Little Friends of Printmaking are a husband-and-wife team of silkscreen artists living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Emerging onto an already crowded poster art scene in early 2003, The ...
Almost ten years ago, I randomly met Chris Uphues at a tiny gallery in Chicago. He gave me a homemade button printed with a smiling heart. I saved the button, and now those same doodles are plastered ...
Although represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, most of sculptor Liz Craft's inspiration comes from driving around her hometown of Los Angeles. Smack dab in the middle of both, we'd love ...
Because of the highly accessible nature of cameras these days, it's easy to find yourself thinking that the only photos allowed in your home are those that are personal in nature. We often forget th...
We're pretty domesticated here at Apartment Therapy, examining the details of homelife every day. It's a nice change to be shaken up a little and thrown into the (semi) wild via Amy Stein's photogra...
Yesterday we profiled an exhibition at Kasia Kay Art Projects featuring the Days on the Cotton Candy series by director and photographer Maleonn. One image not being nearly enough to soak it all up, ...
Since 2000, Chicago-based Internet company Threadless has been surviving and thriving off community-based T-shirt designs. Now they're getting into the business of art with a new series of three pri...
Springtime means wedding season! If you find yourself on the guest list for a very special couple, you might want to check out the custom wedding portraits by design magnates, Wary Meyers. Jump down...
New Buffalo, Michigan has been coming up in conversation a lot lately. Three years ago, I took a drive with my dad to see if his grandparents' house was still there (a place he spent many childhood su...
One of our favorite stops at Art Chicago was Catherine Edelman's booth. The River North gallerist has a great eye for photography, and for us Julie Blackmon is the pick of the litter. When we saw he...
With Art Chicago and Artopolis right around the corner, we are excited to discover and feature more Chicago artists. Pamela Michelle Johnson is one of them. She is currently working on a new series of...
April in Lincoln ParkWe discovered the paintings of Josh Moulton during a recent visit to Uncommon Ground's new location on Devon Avenue. The urban landscapes and Chicago-centric visions in Moulton's ...
We spotted Adrienne Garbini's Etsy shop, What Nothing Press, when we rounded up 25 artworks under $50 last week. Adrienne deconstructs books, paints their covers, then photographs them. The result is...
Yesterday we featured 25 artworks under $50 from Etsy. One of those artists was Julianna Swaney of Oh My Cavalier. Her small drawings and prints reference fairy tales, populated with anthropomorphic...
RetiredBeyond loving his name, we love the oil paintings of Max Key. Currently on view at Caro d'Offay Gallery in Chicago (through April 19), Hoffman LaChance Contemporary in Maplewood, MO and upcomin...
Broken Wing and Backpackers We stopped in Renegade Handmade last week and noticed these charming prints by Etui. These were featured a while ago on Ohdeedoh, but we thought we'd post them here too....
Neil Young, 2006, c-print, 30 x 40 inches, edition of 3 Melanie Schiff's photographs feel like the morning after a long night of drinking beers around a campfire, when the world looks a little str...
The Instant Decorator (Yellow Living Room), 2001We love the work of photographer Laurie Simmons - especially the 2001-2004 Instant Decorator series. In the words from a 2004 exhibition at Sperone West...
Neighborhood, 2008, 24 x 24 inches, Oil on Canvas Rebecca Silus' paintings remind us of the cold, quiet feeling of Midwestern suburbs. These houses could be on the outskirts of St. Louis, Milwauke...
Lindsey's bedroomThe Living with a Portrait series by Chicago photographer Jason Lazarus literally explores ideas of living with portraits - whether formal or casual. We adore the richness and depth o...
Cosmic Sleepwalk by Michiko Itatani, 2007, oil on canvas, 96 x 78 inches Michiko Itatani has been working in Chicago since the 1970s, but her current body of work is our favorite so far. The images...
Breathing Room Introducing Kariann Fuqua......
A shot of color for this snowy day. Karen Revis sent us her portfolio of encaustic paintings and we wanted to share the warmth. These paintings appear super-simple, although the process that went in...