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Sm{art}: Diggin' Deep With Cristy C. Road

Art and Design post by Devyn Manibo on August 9, 2012 - 10:12am; tagged activism, art, Cristy C. Road, diy, feminist, green day, illustration, punk, queer, sm{art}, Social Justice, the homewreckers, zines.

a video chat with cristy road and devyn manibo. cristy is making a toothy face and devyn is smiling wide.Cristy C. Road, a Miami-raised, Brooklyn-based, Cuban-American illustrator, writer, and of course, total dreamboat, is no stranger to DIY, punk, queer, zine, and activist communities all over the place, and certainly no stranger to the pages of Bitch magazine. You might recognize her work from covers of books such as We Don’t Need Another Wave and The Revolution Starts at Home, or maybe you’ve caught her on tour with Sister Spit The Next Generation when they rolled through your town, or perhaps you’ve flipped through an issue or two of Green Zine, or you stole your ex's copy of Bad Habits, or you saw her band play in someone's basement, or maybe you've never heard of her at all, but basically, she’s a big deal, not to mention a badass. This is what happened when I sat down for a chat with her on a sunny Friday morning, pajamas on, and breakfast in hand. Cristy shared her feelings about everything from her art, to astrology, to racial dynamics in radical communities, to cats and brunch. It's all here for you to read, so let's get started!

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Sm{art}: Queer Zine Machine, Edie Fake

Art and Design post by Devyn Manibo on July 26, 2012 - 10:43am; tagged artists, comics, edie fake, feminism, feminist, queer, sm{art}, zines.

edie fake sitting on a toilet reading a book entitled "the big butt book"You know when you come across a super rad zine artist and you're really into their work, then you casually waltz into a comic shop, and you find one or two of their zines from years and years ago, but you get pretty bummed that the zine and comic shops in your area don't have a sufficient selection, so you scour the Internet but can only find so many other things, then you realize you've wasted hours looking for who has the lowest shipping costs? You then proceed to read every interview with them, you learn all you can about their life, then you step back for a minute, and it hits you—maybe you're a little obsessed with the artist and you feel weird about it, but you end up e-mailing them professing your undying love for them and their work anyway? Please tell me this isn't something only I go through.

Regardless, starting right here, right now, I will be taking you on a journey, showing you why I love three incredible queer zine artists, and why you should love them too.

First up:  Edie Fake!

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Sm{art}: The Colors of Coco Riot

Art and Design post by Kjerstin Johnson on January 18, 2012 - 2:40pm; tagged art, Coco Riot, sm{art}.

An illustration of a figure in a tank-top drawn in black and white emerging out of a colorful, diamond and geometric design. They hold up their hand to touch colorful, cubic shapes

Bright and graphic illustrations, installations on bathroom politics, and back-page comics for the fabulous Shameless mag? Artist Coco Riot does it all!

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Sm{art}: Lorna Simpson

Art and Design post by Nicole Morales on September 28, 2011 - 11:55am; tagged art, Lorna Simpson, photography, sm{art}.

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Brooklyn-based artist Lorna Simpson produces visual works that both isolate and confront conventional views on identity, ethnicity, and history. A majority of her recent work portrays black American women casually posed in standalone scenes or everyday interactions, inviting viewers—herself included—to question what divisions exist between society's past and present.

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Sm{art}: Angela Singer

Art and Design post by Nicole Morales on August 3, 2011 - 11:49am; tagged Angela Singer, animals, art, sm{art}.

Sm{mart} header--the word smart in pink and orange

Angela Singer puts buttons, beads, and a barrage of sparkly things on dead animals to make art.

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Sm{art}: Jennifer Strunge's Cotton Monsters are Frighteningly Cool

Art and Design post by Deb Jannerson on June 8, 2011 - 12:12pm; tagged green, sm{art}, toys.

"smart" in all lowercase letters, with "sm" in orange and "art" in pink.

A large, roundish pale pink creature with long tentacles, also pink, extending in all directions. The creature is nearly covered with eyeballs with irises in all different colors, many of which are shades of green, blue or orange.

As soon as I chanced upon Cotton Monster, I felt like I'd been waiting all my life for toys, art, and eyeballs to intersect.

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Sm{art}: The Disarming Catherine Eyde

Art and Design post by Deb Jannerson on May 18, 2011 - 11:19am; tagged art, fairy tales, fantasy, female artists, science fiction, sm{art}.

Smart Blog Logo: orange and pink letters spell out the word smart

I fall more in love with the work of Catherine Eyde every time I look at her art. Her colorful renditions of women, creatures and landscapes both ordinary and fantastical walk the line between twee and haunting, like a gorgeous, uneasy mixture of Grimm's fairy tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and feminist sci-fi.

an illustration of a woman wearing green. She is seated on a lot of pillows and surrounded by white birds. a painting of a landscape with bright colors, including a red sky and yellow hills

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Sm{art}: Hungry Eyeball's "Buzz"

Art and Design post by Erica Steckl on October 20, 2010 - 12:38pm; tagged art, Chelsea Fletcher, Rebecca Artemisa, sm{art}.
Buzz-Hungry-Eyeball"Buzz" is a current art show curated by Hungry Eyeball installed inside Tender Loving Empire, an impressively multi-tasking collective. "Buzz" contains works by five Portland, Oregon based artists: Chelsea Fletcher, Amy Ruppel, Rebecca Artemisa, Kinoko and Wesley Younie. Although it is too late to see Y La Bamba play an intimate show for the opening night (darn it!), it is fortunately not too late to see the art. "Buzz" will be in the Tender Loving Empire gallery until November 2nd.

More after the jump!
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sm{art}: Mierle Ukeles

Art and Design post by Sara Reihani on September 8, 2010 - 12:59pm; tagged art, Mierle Ukeles, sanitation, sm{art}.


How, exactly, does one become an artist-in-residence at a sanitation department? If you want to do it the way Mierle Ukeles did it, first you get expelled from Pratt for making "pornographic" abstract art. Then you have a baby. Then you write a rad manifesto that redefines everyday maintenance work as fine art. Then you make landfills into beautiful public parks! Easy peasy.

Mierle Ukeles, a young blonde woman, smiling and shaking hands with an unidentified male sanitation worker who is looking at the camera and smiling. They are standing on a dump site; there is a garbage truck in the background.
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Sm{art}: Eve Gilbert

Art and Design post by Sara Kantner on August 4, 2010 - 3:25pm; tagged art, comics, Eve Gilbert, sm{art}, zines.


She's been praised by R. Crumb and compared to Bukowski, but she still doesn't have a Wikipedia page. She's rather elusive, but she has a reason: "My paintings are the only place I feel that I fit in."

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