Paint by Pucker: College Times Interviews Texan Lip Artist Natalie Irish
Houston-born artist Natalie Irish makes paintings by smooching and mouthing color onto canvas- she happens to be young and attractive, and the images she happens to kiss into being tend to be dead celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix and Amy Winehouse. Predictably, a media frenzy has ensued, with Ms Irish featured on Huffington Post, [...]
“You’re never gonna make it flat, anyway:” Jung Mun and the Sala Diaz effect
I’ve seen the Sala Diaz effect encourage unprecedented audacity more than once. More than ten times. The secret is, to a large extent, the flip-flop of the usual S.A. gallery show, in which an artist hangs finished work in the course of one or two days, and that art hangs or stands in there for [...]