Featured in Luxcollective Gallery / Loft 401
Michael DiPetrillo - Paintings
It is my hope that my paintings stink - or at least a viewer could imagine that contained within each one they have some type of smell. I want them to have sound, whirring and clicking of gears, swishing, and perhaps a few laser noises. I want my paintings to have stories that are not necessarily answerable without some laughter. More importantly, I want the viewer to come up with a story of their own because more often than not it is far more outlandish, interesting, and hilarious than my original intention could have dreamt of.
The recent series is based on choosing stars in the sky that are of cultural or personal interest to me. Some of the stars are close to home and have stories that are told throughout human history. Other stars have no history, they are either too dim or distant to see with our own eyes or our knowledge of them too brief for us to have significant stories about them. The goal of the star paintings is to treat an almost unfathomably distant speck of light in the sky as a character that could sit and pose for a painting and I could help tell their story.
Jamey Braden - Drawings and Illustrations
"Even the Id is Anxious"
These drawings and illustrations are all made in a stream of consciouses manner. I sit down at my table and let my thoughts out onto the page--often slightly skewed takes on sayings, reversed-proverbs, and solemn absurdities come out. I enjoy the way I think when I have a chance to drown out the rational-internal narrator, and let the id pour in and take the soapbox in naive interpretations of daily wisdom.
