Featured Artist: Andy Kehoe

After months of eager anticipation, Where the Wild Things Are is finally in theaters, and it's pretty incredible; the kind of movie that sticks around in the back of your head and has you periodically feeling pangs of longing to return that world. So, when glancing through the online gallery of Andy Kehoe, an artist whose work I've long enjoyed, and who was featured in a previous post on the New York gallery Charming Wall, the immersive world of bizarrely wonderful creatures he creates had unusual resonance. Kehoe's world feels cohesive and consistent, populated by a cast of recurring characters captured in brief snapshots offering mere flickers of insight into an ongoing saga which reveals itself gradually with each passing image. There is a satisfying emotional complexity to his work, with the warm, richly textured Autumnal glow tempered by the creatures' slightly unsettling stoicism.

Featured Gallery: Charming Wall

A few posts ago I made a passing reference to the New York based art gallery Charming Wall. Looking back, a mere mention is far too little ceremony for so great a gallery. Charming Wall features a gorgeous array of hand-picked open-edition fine art prints from artists the world over. The style they curate, while wide-ranging, feels right at home with the contemporary craft movement being cultivated by Etsy, the Renegade Craft Fair, and the like. Best of all, being open edition and all, each of their prints (most roughly 9" x 14" images on 12" x 15" paper) sell for a mere $20. Here are a few of my favorites.