Eclectic Color Roundup

September 27 2009, 1:39pm

Happy Birthday Darius In true color lover fashion, for his 28th birthday Darius, the creator of COLOURlovers was presented with a 28 color cake. We wish him all the best, and if any one would like to send him a birthday wish, consider donating to help him raise $28,000 for Hands On Disaster Response in his 28th year. You can do that here.

Art

Kinberly Hennessy Portfolio "My present work consistently bestrides the opposing positions of slack versus tight, exclusive versus banal, precise versus chaotic, micro versus macro, and cheery versus spooky. The paintings depict strings of flags flying aloft one moment and then nettled in an unruly mound the next.  Lines are pulled taught and then abruptly (apathetically? disappointedly?)  left flaccid.  Fastidiously detailed drawings are eclipsed by an impulsively thrown hand holding a big paintbrush full of cheap paint.  Spaces feel simultaneously cavernous and claustrophobic.  Moods swing from manic (hot pink razzle-dazzle stripes, piles of first place blue ribbons, faint traces of glitter) to depressed (ambiguously shaped black scaly masses, one lone string curling the floor, an overturned cardboard box)..."

Special Problems Portfolio Special Problems is a multi-disciplinary creative studio

Via Chad Kouri for The Post Family

Elena Popova Portfolio | Tinku Gallery "Elena Popova’s abstract monotypes, riotous with colour," will be on view in Toronto at the Tinku Gallery.