Annapolis based multimedia artist Jeff Huntington make connections between seemingly opposing images using patterns and emotion. It was his father, the subject of his painting series “Plaques and Tangles” (2010), who first introduced him to oil painting at the age of eight. That particular series was a turning point in the artist’s career, when multiple perspectives began creeping into his works. Since then, Huntington has made increasingly layered portrayals of the human condition. For example, a recent mural painted in his hometown combines the peaceful expression of a golden Buddha with an injured nurse in agony from a 1925 Sergei Eisenstein Film. His latest series, “Catalyst,” features superimposed images of people with a significant effect on human history, culture and values. Each subject is a catalyst of some kind, but when merged together with color, shape and varying expressions, Huntington adds an entirely new dimension to their images.
For fifteen years, the first week of September in Norway has been reserved for Nuart festival. This year's opened on September 3rd with a large group show titled "OutsidersIN". The show features works by past, present and future Nuart artists, which includes leading names in the urban art movement. Built around the idea of 'situationism', DIY-culture and play, Nuart hosted debates, seminars, lectures, movie projections and on-site creation of artwork. Representing different techniques and subjects, this year's lineup works with both traditional and unconventional mediums like trash, cement, and posters.
A riot cop covered in flames in the middle of the street, Claude Monet's poppies swallowed by a hole in the sky, and a large ship tearing up the Earth's surface, leaving a bloody scar behind it- these are images 
Setting soft and supple nudes against graphic patterns and textures, Brooklyn-based painter 
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