Frying eggs in your underwear, reading in bed, watching tv with girlfriends, standing in front of an empty fridge— they’re small, everyday moments that all women experience when they’re alone. While they may not seem like much when you’re actually living them, artist Sally Nixon found a way to elevate them into a shared universal...
OH HAY AIA! My name is Joey Salamon and I am a Detroit-based artist specializing in psychedelic sharpie drawings depicting detailed, colorful and intricate dreamscapes. I always tell people my drawings are visual representations of who I am and that each new piece starts without an agenda, sketch or plan and I trust myself enough to know they will...
James Fenner, a current Pacific Northwest College of Art illustration student, has been drawing since he was a kid – he comes from a family of artists so creative expression seems to be in his blood. While he was into manga and anime in his earlier days, his style has since matured to focus more on shape, design and meaning. His most...
Creating art, in whatever form I explore, enlightens me through its process and has become an intrinsic part of who I am. I question, discuss, instigate, observe, share and discover through my work. Like a blurry off-shoot of science – artistic expression, to me, is a method of understanding and exploring our reality. -Darren Cranmer I...
Have you every looked at a sheep and immediately had thoughts about the universe, the meaning of life and the awe-inspiring billions of stars littering our skies? If you haven’t (and that’s ok, I guess), you will now after looking at Lauren Marx’s intricate zoological-meets-cosmological drawings. Marx maintains that she’s been...
The drawings and illustrations of Kinchoi Lam are delightfully intimate vignettes that pack a big emotional punch in a small package. There are those recognizably mundane scenarios; a cat curled sleeping on a floral blanket, a double-decker bus, dinner, folks sitting in a hospital emergency waiting room. Then there are those more fantastical...
Susie Wong is an artist, art writer and curator living and working in Singapore, and it’s her recent 2014 exhibition, (after image) My Beautiful that caught my eye. At the centre of this exhibition were five heftily sized drawings of Susie Wong’s father, a man she drew from the front, sides, and back. Because of their near life-size scale...
Hello AIA! I’m Paula Duta, an illustrator, designer based in Romania who just loves to draw. I just completed a new series of drawings that merge insects with letters. I worked on this personal project for about 2 years. Yes, 2 years! :) It was something I didn’t want to rush so I always left it aside when I had to work on something...
Lena Klyukina admits to liking the idea of infinity, and enjoys finding wonder with the world. Her sci-fi inspired art attests to this; humanoids interact with sea monsters, whilst pyramidal structures float in the sky, the lights from a cluster of stars dazzling them. Insects from the future graze on the corpses of headless humans, whilst females...
Stumbling upon Scottish artist Douglas Gordon’s eponymous Hirshhorn exhibition in 2004 remains one of the single most satisfying and genuinely surprising moments of my life. The exhibit was Gordon’s first North American solo show (and maybe the last? he’s remained relatively under-the-radar in the States compared to his notoriety and success...
“I like Hans Christen Andersen stories,” admits Jockum Nordstram, an artist known for his illustrations, drawing, paintings and collages, and who earlier in 2014 exhibited in London for the first time. “Sometimes I’m in a completely different world.” Whilst there is certainly a childlike quality to Nordtrum’s work, with his style of...
