You wouldn’t know it, but at one time Pamela Grau was very conservative. She wasn’t the liberally minded free-spirit who baked us sugar-free muffins upon our arrival or the nature lover who shared with us the acorns and funny little sticks she had collected throughout her travels. In fact, before [read more...]
On St. Patricks day [2012], the artist known as XVALA threw a pop-up exhibit named The Kim Kardashian Party. And prior to the event he was invited to attend the technology conference L33tUp as their official disrupt artist. What that meant, was that he threw techies off guard by [read more...]
XVALA is the artist behind the “Fear Google” stickers seen all over California. However, he’s recently been on a quest through celebrities’ trashcans to find objects he can turn into art – most notably one of Mark Zuckerberg’s wire hangers that made it into the pages of [read more...]
Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor takes other people’s scraps and turns them into fantastic creatures. Most of her sculptures easily tower over a human and seem eerily alive. In fact, I kept checking to make sure they weren’t breathing – even though it would’ve been cool if they were. I loved [read more...]
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