Maelstrom: An Interview with Brendan Monroe
Maelstrom: An Interview With Brendan Monroe by Jacob van Loon Blobography, an exhibition of Brendan Monroe’s ceramic sculptures, recently concluded at Heath Ceramics in Los Angeles. A fetching, carefully considered myriad of contrasting glazes adorn his small-to-mid scale figurative work — planes of textural, swirling color that look like they were skimmed off the gaseous planets […]
Vain In Costume: Interview with Matt Korvette
Since hearing Pissed Jeans’ first EP early in 2005, I had seen photos and videos of their performances. Aside from the music being some of the moist poignant confrontation within punk and hardcore in the 2000’s, something about Matt Korvette’s stage presence had its own gravitas. As a performer, Korvette’s delivery warbles violently between Calvin […]
Outer Space
Have a manuscript trapped in your drawer? Unleash it at Cairn! Have a salacious story about your hometown? Unleash it at Local Dialect! Too bogged down by crippling student debt to write? Unwind at Chez Apocalypse! Marko Manev’s “Macedonian minimalist posters dedicated to the heroes of Marvel.” “Olly Moss is the figurehead in a big […]
Cerebrovascular Vigor: Jacob Van Loon Interviews Geoffrey Todd Smith
Geoffrey Todd Smith is a visual artist living in Chicago. Originally from Cleveland, he graduated from the School of the Art Institute with a BFA in 1995 and headed an hour west to DeKalb to attain his MFA from Northern Illinois University. His work focuses on dense, pattern-based motifs that generate a gravitational pull. The […]
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