Hansma Illustration

LOVESICK ARTIST PROFILE: JOSH BUCKENBERGER

Josh Buckenberger is a Detroit artist with a dream, a mustache and a drawing implement in his hand. He studied Illustration at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has since put his talents to use in a diverse range of fields from web design to parade float construction to art restoration. He has shown at C Pop Gallery, Northville Art House, Russell Industrial and other area galleries.

You can view Josh’s work online at: http://www.coroflot.com/jbuckenberger/

Tomorrow we’ll preview the works of the third member of the LOVESICK trio - Cody Schibi.

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thechung:

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Well, alright then.

bluebirdsfloat:

Mike Kelley - Frankenstein

Mike Kelley 1954 - 2012

I actually sent a text to my friend and fellow Detroit lowbrow artist, Kill Taupe, as soon as I heard the news. Sad day in the art world. Mike Kelley was an amazing artist. I was just admiring his work at the Detroit Institute of Art the other week.

liftdetroit:

LOVESICK ARTIST PROFILE: HEATHER HANSMA

Heather Hansma has been part of the lowbrow/pop art scene in Detroit since graduating from CCS with a BFA in Illustration in 2007. She has shown at a number of area galleries including Lift, 323East, Starkweather and 5 E as well as OhNo!Doom in Chicago. She has been busy breeding her Puff Buns series of cute and demented characters which can be found around town at such fine establishments as Goods, the Rust Belt and the above mentioned galleries.

You can view all of Heather’s new works at Lift starting Saturday, February 4th through March 4th as part of the LOVESICK exhibit.

Visit Heather online at hansmaillustration.com & follow her on twitter at http://twitter.com/Hansma

Tomorrow we’ll preview the works of Detroit’s Josh Buckenberger.

Sometimes it is far more important to quickly sketch down an idea than it is to figure out the perfect composition. I’m going to try and squeeze in a painting of a haggard Cupid into the show, but I’ll first make sure to rectify the chaos of the wing/arm/bow/cigarette combo I have going on right now.

LIFT’s first show of 2012 takes a twisted approach to St. Valentine’s Day, offering adorable and adorably disgusting portrayals of love in all its forms. Featuring the work of metro Detroit artists Heather Hansma and Josh Buckenberger and illustrator Cody Schibi (of Austin, Tex.), Lovesick presents the “adorable, horrifying and moody” effects that Cupid’s arrow can have. Grab your sweetie and take a surreal stroll down lover’s lane at LIFT, 228 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-545-5245; displays through March 4.

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—	“Demented Amore,” Metro Times “Night & Day” column edited by Megan O’Neil

Speaking of that amorous mood that the second week of the second month always brings, get a quirky and early kiss on 2/4 when Hansma, Schibi and Buckenberger (nope, not a law firm) ascend at LIFT Detroit. Love is the game, Lovesick is the name of the show, and whatever “nausea” ensues will be a fitting rebuttal to that trite commercialism we alluded to above.

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—	Robert del Valle, Real Detroit Weekly RDV included our show in his Stage & Canvas column in this week’s RDW. Yay!

Cupid’s Target Practice
Heather Hansma
Custom 5” Average Joe Schmoe
2012

This is the last sneak preview of a finished piece you’ll see from me before LOVESICK opens this Saturday. If you can’t make it to the opening, don’t worry. I’ll be posting all my finished work from the show online for you to see the following week.

LOVESICK
new work from Heather Hansma, Cody Schibi & Josh Buckenberger
Saturday, February 4th | 7-10pm
Lift Designer Toys & Gallery
228 W. 4th St. | Royal Oak, MI
248.545.5245

Facebook Event Page for LOVESICK! »

I’m not one of those folks who has a FB page, but if you are then you can go to the event page via the link above. Wut wut.