Red Grooms’ massive cartoon-like 3D paintings and lithographs are kinetic and inspiring. His perspective is so unusual that his pieces seem to fall in upon themselves and to explode outwards simultaneously. His depictions of other great artists: Pollack, Dali, Picasso and of bustling metropolises: Chicago, Nashville, New York have been enjoyed by international audiences.  He has been described by Lois Riggins-Ezzell as “a social Historian with a hot glue gun.” An oddly apt view of a wildly inventive artist.

Jeremy Greenberg, the obsessive, artistic upholsterer, creates sculptures that, in his own words, “consist of elaborate and seductive objects which exaggerate traditional appeal, creating an obnoxious and elegant style.” His “eccentric self image” is part of the inspiration for creatively bizarre pieces, such as, “an abstract chair in the shape of a tongue or a series of symmetrically constructed arches resembling a rib cage with individual seats. It becomes furniture that functions better as an object of desire or entertainment then of conventional décor.”

Timothy Belknap describes it best in his 2005 MFA Thesis Exhibition Review, “Jeremy’s work is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% upholstery” … which, by my math, adds up to 105% of awesome. Check out more of Jeremy’s work at: www.JeremyJGreenberg.com

      A bit about Tim Robinson: “I started out trying to be a painter but the NYC artworld was no place for me… I drifted into songwriting and found it just as visual, in a way more so. That clicked and I became a bit obsessed, writing hundreds of songs [though, oddly] recording none. I scaled down the painting to small collage work, made from junk, mostly stuff I picked up off the ground around the city. Sometimes I would do it block by block… a piece might be called “Schermerorn, between Court and Henry”, that sort of thing. As the computer crept into my life, I discovered the business of internet junk picking and began experimenting with digital collage. I grab things, mess with them a bit and just start throwing elements together. Magical things happen then, what was an engine diagram suddenly seems soulful next to a bird. Anyway, it’s an ongoing experiment. I hope folks find something to pivot on in all of it.”
      To see more of Tim Robinson’s art and to hear his music, visit: Myspace.com/TimRobinsonSongs

i just can’t get enough of Tom Otterness’ 14th street subway sculptures.

      Childhood musical prodigy, Noel Rockmore, discovered his ultimate calling as a painter, after an early bout of polio made him delve deeper into darker, more macabre inspiration.  His subjects had wide range, including denizens of Greenwich Village and the Bowery, Coney Island, Jerusalem, shipyards and cemeteries and above all, the jazz musicians, surreal architecture and rituals of life and death in the New Orleans French Quarter. His biographer described him as a “compulsive draftsman”.  He often chose painting and smoking over mundane tasks such as sleeping and eating. Noel defined obsession and artistic possession, producing over 10,000 works in his lifetime.

From Mangua, Nicaragua to Coral Gables, Florida, from elementary school on, Cecilia Dubon Slesnick has chosen art over sanity. Cartooning, Illustrating, and Photographing everything around her, Cecilia makes the world a brighter and more bizarre place. Check out her artwork at: www.ceciliadubon.com

Painter/ Professor/ Inventor, Martie Holmer is quirky and creative to the extreme.
She’s illustrated cookbooks, calligraphed, hand-painted maps and currently plays jazz piano and finds unlikely inspiration for her art in bombs and missiles.

See more of her portfolio at: www.martieholmer.com

Ariel Eisen is a musician/ artist/ ball of warm fuzzy creativity.

Check out her music and sketches at: www.myspace.com/ConstantHum

There will be more art to come, so keep checking in!

Tom Otterness is a profoundly awesome and odd artist whose work enhanced my commute to no end: