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3 more reasons to visit Artomatic

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  Artomatic    Posted date:  June 11, 2012  |  7 Comments


During the Nebula Awards weekend a couple of weeks ago, I visited Artomatic, an arts festival featuring more than 1,000 artists, which this year is taking place in an office building soon to be demolished. I returned a couple of days ago, because I’d only made my way through 75% of the space during my first two visits, and based on what I’d seen, I felt I should experience it all. I’d enjoyed myself so much during those other visits I was sure I’d find some more gems.

I did.

Here are the images that touched me the most this time around.

Gregory Ferrand

I found this quartet of paintings exposing inner life—hopes, dreams, anxieties, and more—moving.

Sarah Guthrie

If corporations are people, too, don’t they deserve portraits of their own? At least one artist thinks so, and I found the results amusing. And a little bit disturbing, too.

Here the artist explains her reasons for this series.

Wendy Risch

No heavy message here. Except—happiness. Which is what this wall—and especially the two paintings seen in greater detail beneath—made me feel.

Whether or not these are to your liking, believe me, with 11 floors of exhibition space and more than 1,000 artists, something will be. Artomatic runs through June 23. It’s worth a visit.





7 Comments for 3 more reasons to visit Artomatic


Corporations are people, Sarah Guthrie paints their portraits : The idea trend

[…] 3 more reasons to visit Artomatic (Thanks, Scott!) […]

cliff

Is there a reason many of these images are rotated in the large version?

    Scott

    I hate to say it, but — I have no idea! I uploaded them in the correct orientation. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll try to figure it out.

      Shawn Landden

      Firefox does not honor EXIF rotation in jpeg images, therefore in order to get a properly rotated image in all browsers, you have to remove the EXIF rotation tag, and do a hard rotation on the image.

      http://mozillamemes.tumblr.com/post/20015554407/ohai-bug-739690

        Scott

        Since I’ve never even heard of an EXIF rotation tag, I can see I’ve got some learnin’ to do!

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[…] that, now that Citizens United has made corporations into people, they'll probably want their portraits painted. Multi-nationals get the masterly treatment. […]



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