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. (more…)

Last weekend, when I wasn’t schmoozing with friends at SFWA’s Nebula Awards weekend, I was off at the nearby Artomatic, an arts installation I’d heard about in years past but had never managed to attend. Since the last Artomatic was in 2009, and who knew when I’d ever be spending a couple of nights just a few blocks away from one, I knew I had to sneak over.

What is Artomatic? It’s 1,300 artists taking over an 11-story building that’s soon to be demolished, and surprisingly, amid the tens of thousands of works of art, plenty of science fiction, fantasy, and horror turned up. In an effort to get those who come here to read about those sorts of things to drop by—Artomatic runs through June 23—I thought I’d share a fraction of the art of the fantastic that I spotted.

(To my great horror and regret, after I got home, I discovered that I’d misplaced some of the artists’ names, so in the event you do head on over to Artomatic and see some of the paintings I’ve included below without attribution, could you please let me know the names of the creators. Artists need all the publicity they can get! All artists have now been identified. Whew!)

Dana Ellyn

“Darth Vay-Deer,” by Isaac Otto Lange

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