SEVEN FREAKY
GOOD ARTISTS
FROM SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW 23’
These artists works are good, freakishly good, and it’s important we shed light on all the beautiful things that come from the night, the uncertain and the often thought of as monstrous. And what better a day to release it than Halloween?
Shalva Nikvashvili
Based in: Germany
Nikvashvili's work is a refreshingly bold exploration of portaiture — conceptually torn and resewn to mirror the realistically sharp edges that come with identity. The artist integrates his background in costume design with visual art to create physically interesting and unsettlingly beautiful imagery.
www.shalvanikvashvili.com // @shalvanikvashvili
Marcus Fingerlin
Based in: Colorado
Fingerlin’s painting above conjures a moment of drastic urgency and complete uncertainty reminiscent of old school cartoon episodes. When I read via Spring Break that his work was about anxiety and fear this painting screamed even louder as perfect metaphor for the ‘horrors of the mind’ many experience within their ordinary day to day life.
Laura Romaine
It was really love at first sight with both of these paintings. Romaine’s work is so freaky and so good. Looking at her work helps me feel more free to enjoy the complete oddity of my own body, and to embrace the silliness within the serious business that is identity. Their painting and drawings are a lovely intersection between technicality and joy.
www.lauraromaine.com @laura_romaine_arts
Saul Acevedo Gomez
Saul Acevedo Gomez’s booth turned the viewer into the game piece on a board game. It freaked me out by having me pull a card that asked me in depth about love and my elderly future. But this piece above, was freaky in a less existential way, so satisfying simple and effective. The backwardness of the canvas, is an example of how he is an artist, an illustrator but at heart an outside of the box thinker.
www.saulaceart.com @saulace_art
Anne Horel
Anne Horel exhibited a large grid of tiny AI generated portaits each printed on tile. They were freaky, intricate, and divinely beautiful. Their organic but otherworldly nature made me feel like I could almost trust them (if I landed on a different planet and they found me lost in the their fields). Many tile works were exhibited with AR effects, which were delightfully easily to use allowing viewers to experience the full 3 dimensional body of the heads.
Cait McCormack
A fiber artist whose work seems to come alive. While fiber arts and crochet gain more and more popularity within contemporary art spaces, Romaine’s small sculptures pulls the crochet medium beyond itself and in doing so challenge deeper assumptions about the material and our connection with it.
www.caitlintmccormack.com @mister_caitlin
Lauren Cohen
Curator Jacob Rhodes and artist Lauren Cohen’s booth immersed you in a traditional living room of the late 1900’s. Freaky and good things are bound to happen when you put faces and breathe life into all the objects we love to forget were once alive. This includes: clothing hangers that look like ground beef, tree ornaments made out of fingers, and this lovely chess board that I assumed were hot dog weenies? Cohen is an example of all the simply weird and wonderful worlds that come from the ceramic medium.
Photos and selection by Casey Alfstad
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