Tag Archives: illustration

Beyond the Wall: Outsider Art Goes Inside

This past October, famed UK street artist Banksy spent a month in New York City, leaving behind 31 provocative works in public spaces scattered throughout the city’s five boroughs. Each new piece threw the press and public deeper into the kind of frenzy usually reserved for pop culture events like a new Harry Potter book […]

Posted in News, News-Previews | Tagged 5pointz, 5Pointz Center, Antonio Serna, Banksy, Brian Chidester, fine art, Henry Darger, illustration, Jim Elledge, Marcel Duchamp, Maya Hayuk, Outsider Art

Akikazu Iwamoto’s Secret Candy at Stux Gallery

Imagine this show as candy for the eye and, for those who quiver at the sight of the surrealist distortion of bodies, queasiness in the stomach. Hiroshima-born Akikazu Iwamoto, now forty, fills his compact solo show at Stux Gallery with wildly imaginative, candy-colored paintings and drawings that involve amusing and sometimes frightening bodily transformations. The […]

Posted in News-Previews, Uncategorized | Tagged Akikazu Iwamoto, Giorgio Morandi, illustration, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Utrillo, painting, Stux Gallery