FLASHCARDS: TULIPOMANIA I
Posted on October 17, 2011
The first of two Tulipomania paintings and the tenth painting in the Flashcard series, depicting pixilated text and forty-nine varieties of tulip on polychrome cards; oil on linen; 40 inches high by 26 inches wide.
SKYWARD ISSUS PREVIEW
Posted on September 25, 2011
Here is a sneak peak at the most recent Sylvanusylvania production, Skyward Issus, on view at the 2011 International Fine Art and Antiques Dealers Fair from October 20 - 27 at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue NY, NY 10065.
BUSINESS CARDS: 2011 EDITION
Posted on September 18, 2011
Every year Sylvanusylvania releases a limited edition set of business cards for to-the-wind-throwing, schmoozing, and patron bonuses. Each card is neatly encased in stimulus packaging. Click the link below to preview the 2011 edition. Please check back in the coming weeks for a full archive of Sylvanusylvania business cards from previous years.
FLASHCARDS: SPLIT SCREEN
Posted on September 18, 2011
The ninth painting in the ongoing Flashcard series, featuring forty-nine three by five inch cards of cubic interface, arranged in a grid and sub/superimposed in a dimensional composition; oil on linen; 40 inches high by 26 inches wide. This painting is currently in progress but here is a preview for your pentimento sentiments.
BLOTSPLOTCH ONLY WANTS
Posted on September 8, 2011
The automatic musings of Sylvanusylvania’s most notorious pen, Blotsplotch, is now forthcoming in book form; entitled Blotsplotch Only Wants, the collection includes over sixty detailed reproductions of Blotsplotch drawings as well as a hyper-sigil guide for the perplexed. Click below for publication and preorder information.
“THE UTASHINAI PEROID”
Posted on September 19, 2011
Ariwara Yonejiro essays the art of Sylvanus Shaw before the days of Sylvanusylvania, when the artist lived in Japan’s smallest city: Utashinai-shi, Hokkaido. Thank you to Konno Tenma for bringing this article to our attention.
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FLASHCARDS: CHALLENGER
Posted on September 18, 2011
The eighth painting in the ongoing Flashcard series; an installation of forty-nine colorful and densely dotted Dreamtime paintings, produced by culturephage and corrupted by a half-tone and pointillist depiction of the Challenger space shuttle explosion; oil on linen; 40 inches high by 26 inches wide.
RPG MAPS
Posted on September 12, 2011
Surreal cartography, each map a survey of five to ten chambers, hatched with polychrome and disintegrated grids, superimposed with a spirit guide (psychopomp), manifest in the guise of an old-master drawing. A full archive of the series will be displayed on our "Works on Paper" section in the coming weeks. For the time being, here is a preview.
THE AUTOMATON RUBRIC
Posted on August 22, 2011
Assembly instructions, glossed with ink and pigment on pages of antebellum technology, grangerized from the Senate Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1856, Volume III. Each drawing presents a unique critical function for the burgeoning apparatus, complete with richly colored electroencephalography. A full archive of the series will be displayed in our "Works on Paper" section in the coming weeks. For the time being, here is a preview.
VISIT THE AUTOMATON RUBRIC PREVIEW