Samuel Salcedo

Samuel Salcedo has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and has exhibited at varius venus througout Spain. Speaking about his process the artist says, 'I invent during the process, so I don’t know what will happen at the end of the sculpture. I don’t always remember what I have done. Every time I stop, it’s something new.'

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Oldrich Kulhanek

Oldrich Kulhanek, a Czech painter, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer and pedagogue passed away this January. In 1917 he was arrested by the Secret Police and imprisoned for 'defamation of the allied socialist states.' His distorted portrait of Stalin and other graphics were considered 'ideologically dangerous.' Kulhánek created the design for the current Czech banknotes and postage stamps.

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Berlinde De Bruyck

“My purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of different kinds”, wrote Ovid in his Metamorphoses. It’s a task shared by Berlinde De Bruyckere, who takes in violation and deformity as well as transfiguration and growth – often in the same work.

De Bruyckere first came to international attention in 2000 with a war-themed commission for the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres. The resulting installation of five life-sized casts of horses, their glossy skins animating their contorted pawings and writhings, explored the elisions between man and animal, life and death, that have dominated De Bruyckere’s work since. It also captured the peculiarly immanent quality that has since become the hallmark of her sculptures – the figures are always caught in the moment of becoming, decaying, growing or changing. Never still, never complete.

-Alexandra Coghlan for The Monthly

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Subversive Style Project 4

Students in my Subversive Style elective course at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design recently completed their final project for the semester, titled The Nature of Evil.  Students were required to interpret that title in visual form in the medium of their choice.  Here are a few of the results.  

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Michelle Furbush

Monique Connett

Sammy Weil

Hannah Brooker

Rachel Little

Graey Erb

Alyssa Davis

Jake Peck

Thanks to all of my students for doing such good work and making the semester interesting and enjoyable.  A special congratulations to the senior illustration students who took this class.  I wish you much happiness and a successful career as you venture forth.  You will be missed!

Graham Erwin

Graham Erwin is an illustrator/designer living in Columbus Ohio.  During the day, he works at a custom t-shirt shop and at night he freelances as a poster designer.

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