Tense Forms Showcase Series Presenting music, art, drama, and more.
Allison Stanley :: Bryn Mawr
acrylic, photograph and paper on wood
2005
Allison Stanley is a photographer, painter and musician whose work appeared in 6x5.
Ben Clarke :: Hot Air
mixed media collage
2005
Ben Clarke is a collage artist, a painter and a musician. His work, often political in content, engages because of his naked dedication to process.
Cortney Groves :: Happy Birthday
polaroid transfer on mixed media
2005
Cortney Groves is a photographer of memory. Her work, through her use of blur, careful framing, and soft tones, creates ghost moments charged with history and longing and joy.
Craig Blakeman :: Weather Pattern I: Thunderstorm
oil on canvas
2005
Craig Blakeman :: Weather Pattern II: Twister
oil on canvas
2005
Craig Blakeman is a painter and designer who created 100 Lakes and whose work has graced the covers of two Treatment records, and been included in Glue and 6x5. His use of vibrant colors and heavy layering make his work leap from the canvas. He explains:
Manifestations of heat (the energy transferred from one object to another due to the temperature difference between them) on an atmospheric scale. Systems of imbalance progressing towards stability. The natural physical process of convection culminating in spectacular and bizarre displays of power, at least from our humble human perspective.
Jaime Roche :: 95° / Foster Beach / June 26, 2005
sound collage and mixed media
music by Matt Rose
2005
Jaime Roche is a photographer, designer and illustrator whose stickers appeared in Glue. Her lovely work has an energy in its flushed colors, surprising perspectives and clever juxtapositions that leans toward joy, humor, and lightness.
Kelly Reynolds :: Edie Watches the Sea
mixed media
2005
Kelly Reynolds :: Jackets in Summer
mixed media
2005
Kelly Reynolds is a painter who most often works in mixed media. Her work combines found materials, paint and intelligence to make vibrant stylish art that begs investigation.
Kirk Bravender :: HOD 1 and HOD 2
digital print
2005
Kirk Bravender is a photographer of place. His work captures a location, and that location’s history and its reasons and nuances in an exploration of rust, signage, landscape.
Leah Dickey :: Traveler By Thought
oil on masonite
2005
Leah Dickey is a painter who designed four stickers included in Glue. Her work, often in muted colors with loose brushstrokes, is deeply emotive, powerful, personal, and moving.
Mark Benson :: BUSTED!
oil on canvas
2005
Mark Benson is a painter, designer and musician whose work is striking for its rich color, close attention to detail at large scales and its ability to take mundane subjects and make them fascinating.
Mary Paul :: Abena and Jonathan: Portraits of Kyebie
acrylic, photo transfer and mixed media
2005
Mary Paul is a printmaker and painter whose work appeared in 6x5. Her lush work has a quietness, a purposeful pause that is suggestive, smart, and poignant.
Matt Rose :: Outie
digital print
2005
Matt Rose is a photographer whose work appeared in 6x5. Rose is, at heart, a nature photographer. Be it panoramic landscapes, or the topology of a flower petal, he celebrates the green spaces, the winterscapes, the dew, in his work.
Melissa Stallard :: Untitled
digital prints on foam
2005
Melissa Stallard is a narrative photographer. Both her serial work and her individual photographs suggest story, a moment past, a moment unfolding; character and plot communicated via tightly composed beautiful images.
Mike Piontek :: I’m getting an estimate on the repairs tomorrow
pencil, ink and Photoshop on paper
2005
Mike Piontek is a designer and illustrator who helped found Tense Forms and currently maintains all of Tense Forms’ online presence. His work, often digital, has a sense of gravity, of time-passed that lends it a surprisingly organic feel; like finding a washed out polaroid from the future.
Mollie Morris :: Dysfunctional Dish
terracotta
2005
Mollie Morris is an art therapist, sculpter and painter whose work appeared in 6x5. In both her painting and her mixed media work Morris exhibits a suggestive delicacy that brushes up against eros, fragility and the dark.
Sangini Brahmbhatt :: Channel 33
mixed media
2005
Sangini Brahmbhatt is a photographer, painter and designer whose work often incorporates multiple media and exhibits a smart sense of cultural (as opposed to personal) nostalgia.
Steve Eck :: Andy
woodcut print on paper
2005
Steve Eck :: Angel in Black
woodcut print on paper
2005
Steve Eck :: Artist in front of work
woodcut print on paper
2005
Steve Eck :: Floor Scene
woodcut print on paper
2005
Steve Eck :: Godfather
woodcut print on paper
2005
Steve Eck :: Treats
woodcut print on paper
2005
Steve Eck is a printmaker, photographer and musician whose work leans toward documentary. His patience, to wait for the moment, insures that his photographs not only keep record, but are also visually stunning.
