Amy Inouye

Tactical Mama-san (Taking Care of Business)

2016

Fabric collage

Acrylic 8 x 8 in.

Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish BIO TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor and soprano saxophone with many of the Crescent City's most celebrated artists, including Ellis Marsalis, Allen Toussaint...

This painting has bears, turtles, giraffes and so on playing in the upper half of the composition. Below these animals are various figures and motorcycles, which one can assume is the 'Motorcycle Mama.' This piece has many different colors, however they are all slightly muted. To see more images, please send us a message. Casey McGlynn grew up in rural Ontario, where he would sit in front of the television and draw on old grocery bags and scrap paper tirelessly, creating self-taught surrealist pop art. McGlynn attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, however, he was not enrolled in the visual arts. McGlynn’s work contains reoccurring symbols such as animals from his upbringing, birds from his studio window sill and numbers that derive from when he memorized math tables in his early years. McGlynn’s work is as much about revealing the truth and expressing emotions as it is about documenting actual fact. His paintings reach into a wealth of historical influence and skill. Creating symphonic glyphs on rudimentary, raw quilt-like patterns, the works simultaneously evoke rural Southern quilts...