Lizz Hickey

Gerry Mak Reader Find

By Gerry Mak in New Art on Thursday 25 March 2010

Brooklyn artist Lizz Hickey specializes primarily in print, her DIY comics-inspired imagery translating well into the medium with their blobs of shape and color layered over with intricate patterns and trippy, surreal details.

Read more

Josh Pogue

Gerry Mak Reader Find

By Gerry Mak in New Art on Saturday 6 March 2010

Josh Pogue’s style reminds me of old DIY punk and metal demo covers, but he takes things to a different level with his intricately patterned, fantastical scenes that look like pages out of a demented storybook.

Read more (1 comment)

Jimmy Joe Roche Revisited

Gerry Mak Reader Find

By Gerry Mak in New Art on Monday 3 August 2009

My previous post about Jimmy Joe Roche was less than glowing because I based my opinion on a few silly videos I saw which embodied a certain type of sloppy-passing-for-DIY thing that pervades the art scene in Baltimore.

Read more

Aurel Schmidt

Gerry Mak Reader Find

By Gerry Mak in New Illustration on Monday 7 July 2008

Aurel Schmidt’s intricate drawings make me want to start a band just so I can use it as album art. The DIY-outsider tack many artists have taken of late has produced some art that makes you think ‘I could do that’, but Schmidt’s work is inimitable — her rendering of hair must make other artists furious with envy.

Read more