I look at my phone and it doesn’t make me feel good. Even if I’m looking at a video of a young man helping an old woman cross the street or a video of a kitten riding on the back of a dog. When I look at my phone I am always being sold something—a product or an emotion or a lifestyle or an ideology or a trophy of some kind—and so with these commercials, I take the bleh feeling I get when I look at my phone and do my best to share it with the world.
Visual Media
Paintings by Peiwen Wu
Fake New Yorker Cartoons by Carrie Rennolds
Art by Jane Bristowe
We have chosen four of artist Jane Bristowe's artworks which associate Amusement with Rhythm. Known for her animal linocuts,...
Trees of urban jungles / Les arbres des jungles urbaines by Amelie Bernet
Amelie Bernet shares her interest and admiration for city's architecture. Buildings, which she refers to as "trees of urban jungle," tell...
Art by Dontavious Woody
Click image to expand Untitled, mixed media; Home to Kansas, colored pencil; Henredon Captures Natchez, marker Dontavious Woody is...
Art by Zach Manuel
Click image to expand Ackmed's Mechanical Palace, paint, colored pencil; Lucy's Umbrella Gazebo, mixed media; Prince Ackmed's Quarters,...
Communicative Artwork by A. Thagne Schreyer
This is communicative artwork in that it is meant to communicate ideas mostly to oneself. It is thinking: committing notions and...

Commercials by Joseph Grantham
I look at my phone and it doesn't make me feel good. Even if I'm looking at a video of a young man helping an old woman cross the street or a video of a kitten riding on the back of a dog. When I look at my phone I am always being sold something—a...

Paintings by Peiwen Wu

Fake New Yorker Cartoons by Carrie Rennolds

Art by Jane Bristowe
We have chosen four of artist Jane Bristowe's artworks which associate Amusement with Rhythm. Known for her animal linocuts, here she brings music and dance with her Matisse-inspired "Dancers" linocut and her "'Tree of Music" screen print...

Trees of urban jungles / Les arbres des jungles urbaines by Amelie Bernet
Amelie Bernet shares her interest and admiration for city's architecture. Buildings, which she refers to as "trees of urban jungle," tell a story and bring the past and the present together. The artist captures the ambience of a place as much as...

Art by Dontavious Woody
Click image to expand Untitled, mixed media; Home to Kansas, colored pencil; Henredon Captures Natchez, marker Dontavious Woody is inspired by fashion, African American artists and performers, design, and high contrast compositions he finds in...

Art by Zach Manuel
Click image to expand Ackmed's Mechanical Palace, paint, colored pencil; Lucy's Umbrella Gazebo, mixed media; Prince Ackmed's Quarters, mixed media Zach Manuel has a strong interest in comics, animation, and science fiction. A man with many goals...

Communicative Artwork by A. Thagne Schreyer
This is communicative artwork in that it is meant to communicate ideas mostly to oneself. It is thinking: committing notions and thoughts to physical things. These can be stream-of-conscious or methodical in their making. Every...

The Architecture of Sound—Last Calls, Why Save That Simple Brown Bird? by Alice Hargrave
The sound wave patterns of bird vocalizations are cryptic yet poetic, with beautiful hieroglyphic-like patterns. This graphic language of sound, when strung together into longer verses, becomes an architecture of sound. Upon placing these...

Paintings by Lucas Noaves
This candle series is a part of a 2013 studies on painting, mood and space inspired by the early work of German painter Gerhard Richter. Click image to expand Candle and Window #2; Candle and Window; Untitled; OR II, all works oil on wood...