Radness Roundup: Sweet Sixteen

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Mon, Mar 5, 2018

We’re 16 and we’re having a party to celebrate; you’re all invited! We’ve got cuteness, feelings, poignance, transformations and ‘tude for dayyyyyys. Drop your gift off with the host and let’s boogie: it’s Radness Roundup.

Amanda Lenz

Amanda Lenz makes the tenderest digital paintings you ever did see: a squirrel serving your morning coffee with a smile, a happily hibernating bear with party lights outside and a meditating manatee. Take a second to enjoy the world around you through Amanda’s work.

Slow it down now:
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Celia Jacobs

Celia imbues her illustrations with determined feeling: her lady knight or the dreamy Gabriel García Márquez looking at a spot far off are proof of that. Moreover, her piece “The Heron, The Chair, The Garter Snake” catches the viewer by surprise by summoning conflicting emotion about the vital, threatening, staid and solid.

Surprise Yourself:
http://www.celiaj.com/
https://www.instagram.com/celiajacobs/

Ben Montero

Ben Montero makes comics that will punch you right in the gut. “Crutches Friend” takes you from vulnerability to visibility. His work will rip your heart open and leave it bare--all for the better.

Feel Understood:
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Evan Cohen

Evan makes beautifully subtle shape-shifting risograph comics--take his “Holding Tight” for example: A hand holding a flame, slowly grasping it. Conversely, His “staying together” shows hands slowly morphing into a daisy. Also: check out his gorgeous illustrations for Hudson Valley Brewery and catch a pint if you’re out the Dia: Beacon way!

Transform Yourself:
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Demon Dance

Demon Dance makes designs that are a little goth, a little punk, and a little club kid. Take this chick who checks her reflection and sees only a skeleton: Hell is empty and all the devils are here (and they’re ready to party).