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Courtney Wotherspoon

Canadian illustrator Courtney Wotherspoon layers delicate image upon image to create the most captivating, colorful kaleidoscopes, an effect only enhanced by her trademark multimedia, everything-and-the-kitchen-sink execution. The result of this approach is …

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Tony Stamolis: Frezno

by Tony Stamolis’ new book "Frezno" examines life in California’s sixth largest city with vivid, stark and honest imagery. Stamolis captures his hometown, once a beacon of booming surburbia, with a seedy, …

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Kehinde Wiley: Down

by Ariston Anderson Those lucky enough to catch Brooklyn-based painter Wiley has gained fame for depicting contemporary subjects—he scouts for models in the streets—mashed with French Rococo style and mythological stories, all …

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Stephen Wiltshire

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British artist Stephen Wiltshire is known as the "human camera" for being able to render images of entire cityscapes in uncanny detail after only viewing the real scenes once. Wiltshire's abilities stem …

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Architect Tom Kundig

The winner of the Architecture Design category for Cooper-Hewitt’s 2008 National Design Awards, at 54 Tom Kundig maintains a youthful sense of wonder at the path his career has taken. He refers …

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School of Seven Bells

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Since watching their revelatory performance at the Ghostly International CMJ showcase two weeks ago, the School of Seven Bells have accompanied me every day, lilting my step on morning commutes and late …

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Grant Barnhart: Remember Me When

Drenched in Americana, the paintings of Grant Barnhart show a conflicted view of his home country. In "Remember Me When," the Seattle-based artist adopts scores iconic images from the last century of …