Martha Colburn

Martha Colburn is a respected filmmaker from Pennsylvania who resides in Long Island, New York. Colburn's work is fabulous! I was doing a quick search on mixed media with an attempt to find political art mixed with humor, and I ran straight into this woman who took me on a whirlwind ride full of surprises!

Here are a few films of Colburns.. please enjoy them to the fullest. You either like her work or you don't, its the wonderful world Art!

These works of art are outstandingly creative and infested with personal emotions and political jargon. The concepts are out of this world! There is a whole Wizard of Oz motif along with this creepingly imaginative world that Bin Laden is obscured into. It's just mind blowing.. I know each and everyone of you will come up with your own opinion and thoughts on these pieces! Please let us know what your reactions were and any other comments after looking at these images. The medium here is Polaroids and Paintings.

Martha Colburn on the web..

Sarah Baley"Bois"

Sarah Baley is a fascinating photographer with exquisite skills. Through an array of photos, Baley showcases sexuality and gender definitions. Her recent show "BOIS" held in New York, at the Collette Blanchard Gallery on the Lower East Side, where she concentrated on the these issues as well as urban landscapes in their state of "rot" being re-developed. Her work has been featured in issues of Velvet Park Magazine and also in the New York Times Magazine Blog. The Brooklyn Museum is also acquiring some of her work for their permanent collection.

What I find most alluring about Bailey as photographer and an artist is that she continues to use film instead of digital. Her prints are darkroom oriented which gives her images a brilliant amount of extra character and representation of her subjects. Baley has a way with telling a story, not just as a whole concept but each individuals story comes out of the image and into the minds of the viewers. There is actual life and meaning being portrayed in Baley's work as well as her own viewpoints and struggles they face.

You can find Sarah Baley's work on her website sarahbaley.com and on twitter @SarahBaley.

Alexander Gutke:The Solo Survey of the Swedish, Malmö-Based Artist

MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) manifests for the first time in the U.S the solo exhibition of Swedish artist Alexander Gutke. The exhibition is comprised of six projections which probe the artists fascination with film, using projection for both subject and medium.

The exhibition offers an opportunity to evaluate Gutke's contribution to neo-conceptualism. The persistence of his preoccupations, as well as the complexity and metaphorical potency of his work set him apart from the more directly citational practices of some of his peers. If Gutke adopts and expands upon strategies initially forged by historical predecessors, he does so to explore issues that are both personal and universal with a depth and richness matched only by his work's stark simplicity and hypnotic beauty (MOCAD).

Alexander Gutke is on exhibition now through December 27, at MOCAD.

This exhibition is being curated by Chris Sharp.

Samantha Hahnthe "LOVE" book

Artist: Samantha Hahn

Artist: Samantha Hahn

Samantha Hahn a talented illustrator, surface pattern designer, crafter, blogger and art teacher who resides in Brooklyn, NY with her husband David Moldawer (book editor). Samantha is a soon to be mother in October! Samantha just released her Valentines Day book, the LOVE book, earlier this year in which she had collaborated with several brilliant artists to create this 40 page art book with a mixture of pieces portraying "love"! A few of the joined artists include: Hannah Stouffer, Aaron Hogg, Jessica Gonacha, and Dan Funderburgh.

Don't forget to check out Samantha's website and blog for an additional glimpse of her work!


Artist: Hannah Stouffer

Artist: Jesse Breytenbach

Mona SuperheroMaster of Duct Tape

Mona Superhero from Portland, Oregon suggests that she was stoned and in a hardware store when she smoked up her Duct Tape talents and brought us "pop"-tape art much like those of the sixties silk-screed pop art!

Her X-Acto knife layered cuts of duct tape revile dangerous, sexy and thought provoking images! Mona's work has been featured in several galleries and on the front of many labels including that of Hillstomp, which The Willamette Week raved about Mona's cover calling it 'gut-wrenching'!

And I thought I was cool for having a duct taped wallet.. Pssh!

Zeny FuentesOaxaca, MexicoFolk Art

This is the studio of Zeny Fuentes (Zenen Fuentes Mendez), the famous Oaxacan wood carver and painter!


Growing up in Oaxaca surrounded by the vibrant trade of woodcarving, Zeny himself became a noble wood carver with the help of his famous father, Epifanio Fuentes. The family tradition prevailed over the years and to this day Zeny keeps that family custom alive in spirit of his parents and for the inspiration of his siblings. Zeny hand carves and paints thousands of wooden animals year round and is highly known and appreciated by collectors all over the world.


Zeny takes pride in his knack, therefore he travels to the USA working with museums, schools and universities teaching and displaying his devotion of the Oaxacan craftsmanship.

You can purchase Zeny's work through his online store, ZenyFuentes.com.

Robert Mapplethorpe"Primitivism" Revisited

Robert Mapplethorpe
Grace Jones (1984)
Gelatin Silver Print
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York '07

This piece by Robert Mapplethorpe was part of the contentious show "Primitivism Revisited" back in 2007 at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. This show not only showed the so called "erratic" "relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas", but illustrated compensation to cultural meaning with relegation to non-Western art which supports the role in the story of Western Modernism.

In the 1980's, Multiculturalist thinking was to redefine the simple terms: "art," "African," "Modernism," and "universal." Currently these ideas and expressions are still being re-invented and embellished.

The show consisted of mixed contemporary art with Western and African-born artists, along with traditional and tourist art. The show also examined "authenticity, spiritual utility and cross-cultural perception."