Barton Damer

Skateboarding, faith and Dalí influence the Dallas-based digital artist

Barton Damer is a Dallas-based digital artist whose hyper-detailed and dizzyingly surreal work, with its up-to-the-minute pop culture sensibility, has garnered attention from companies as big as Nike, Facebook and Supra Footwear, and from musicians as diverse as rapper Lil Wayne, Owl City and Wolfmother. “It’s all over the board,” Damer says of his work. “I’m pleased that it’s not just one trick or one …

Headspace 2013

Open up your mind for the year ahead with an annual Nat Russell calendar

Just as another year of creative commitments kick into full swing, artist Nathaniel Russell delivers his annual thematic calendar for a bit of visual fodder while keeping track of time. Russell’s spirited subject for 2013 is “Headspace,” an illustrative homage to all of the cosmic notions filling up your noggin. He tells us, “I like making a theme for each year, something to think about …

Maximo Riera Toad Sofa

A baroque bench with a massive amphibian rear rounds out the Animal Chair Collection

As an artist, sculptor and photographer, Maximo Riera has used his eye and craft of creating dramatic works across disciplines in his most recent project, The Animal Chair Collection. The ever-growing series of biologically accurate animals covers mammals, reptiles and insects from the octopus and elephant to walrus and beetle and now, the toad. The dynamic, sculptural furniture is certainly not for the faint of …