Bee Flowers’ new exhibition Liberation - Women and Abu Ghraib is simultaneously beautiful, shocking, funny, wonderful, terrifying, thought-provoking and incredibly insightful, everything that good art should be.

Showing at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art from 28th February to  28th March 2007.

 

With an interest in the exaggerated, hyper real and beautiful, Melbourne based artist "bemodern' creates fantastic worlds where machines, fauns and beautiful men co-inhabit landscapes of picturesque waterfalls, rolling pastures and angry serpents. He has illustrated for a variety of magazines globally including XLR8R, Blowback and Soma. Bemodern frequently shows in melbourne, where his three dimensional paper collages have evolved into static murals of fashion and glamour. He currently works as an Art Director, overseeing several publications and fashion clients.

BEMODERN @ FLICKR www.flickr.com/photos/91968287@N00/

Howard Finster: Image+Words=God.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Legion of Honor presents Howard Finster: Image+Words=God, on view through April 8, 2007. The Reverend Howard Finster (1916–2001) joins a long tradition of visionary American artists who worked outside the structure of the fine arts establishment. For his first 60 years, Finster worked at numerous jobs, including traveling preacher in rural Georgia and Alabama. It was only in 1976 that Finster had a vision that commanded him, "to paint sacred art". From that moment, the self-taught Finster proceeded to preach the word of the Lord through the creation of over 46,000 idiosyncratic images with text.

This exhibition, on view in the Reva and David Logan Gallery of Illustrated Books, features works from the collection of Eleanor Dickinson, Finster’s friend and fellow artist.

Doesn't it look like the guy who does radiohead's covers Stanley Donwood

Footprints in the Snow is a series of art editions posted quarterly to subscribers. Includes specially printed, Xeroxed, individually detailed items, hand cut paper sculptures, mobiles, bitten artworks and maybe more. Details at www.footprintsinthesnow.co.uk.

The American Association of Museums through its Society of Illustrators invites artists to submit entries for its 49th Annual Exhibition. Works selected by the juries will be shown at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, from January 31 to April 28, 2007. The entire show will be presented in full color in ILLUSTRATORS 49, "America ’s Original Annual of Illustration." The 26th educational traveling exhibition, with a selection of 40 works, will tour U.S. colleges through June, 2008.

ELIGIBILITY
Any illustration created or initially published between October 1, 2005 and October 1, 2006 that has not been accepted in the Annual previously, is eligible. International entries are welcome. Each submission will receive consideration by every member of the jury for its category. Please be certain that the original art will be available for exhibition and can remain at the Society from January through May 2007. High-quality prints will be hung in the case of digitally created or pre-separated art only.

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