Studio Artifacts is an interview series, which invites artists to select, examine, and discuss some of the significant items they keep in their studios and gives readers an intimate glimpse into their practice. Bryan Valenzuela is a Sacramento-based artist who creates complex figurative drawings with a unique mark making technique. His whimsical images of subjects, … Continue reading
Studio Artifacts is an interview series, which invites artists to select, examine, and discuss some of the significant items they keep in their workspace and gives readers an intimate glimpse into their practice. Alexis Arnold is a San Francisco-based artist who uses natural and manmade materials to explore time, transformation, and visual experience. TUBE. Magazine: … Continue reading
Studio Artifacts is an interview series, which invites artists to select, examine, and discuss some of the significant items they keep in their studios and gives readers an intimate glimpse into their practice. Diana Dich is a Sacramento-based artist who creates wire sculptures and drawings. Her recent sculptures explore her personal experiences with mental illness … Continue reading
Studio Artifacts is an interview series, which invites artists to select, examine, and discuss some of the significant items they keep in their workspace and gives readers an intimate glimpse into their practice. Alyssa Lempesis is an Oakland-based artist who uses strange and innovative materials to create mysterious sculptures and animations inspired by our internal … Continue reading
What I’m Listening To is a series where we talk to exciting artists and musicians and get a five song slice of their current playlist. – “Right now we’re taking deep breaths before the insanity of ArtStreet ensues.” – Jennifer Jackson grew up in Placerville, visiting Sacramento when her ex-East Coast punk father showed his … Continue reading
Angela Tannehill has been creating since she was a child living in the country. “I’d make things out of whatever was on hand—milkweed pods became mice, seashells turned into frog faces, the paper lining from my mom’s pantyhose became a sketch pad,” she remembers. Growing up in the country gave her a love of nature … Continue reading
What I’m Listening To is a series where we talk to exciting artists and musicians and get a five song slice of their current playlist. – “It goes without saying that I work to inspire myself first, but when I put out music I want it to have an effect on people beyond my chin … Continue reading
The Panama Art Factory set up shop at the Crocker Block by Block Party and we had a blast! The Panama Art Factory is host to 30 Sacramento artist studios and is also TUBE.’s official headquarters, on Saturday, July 9, 2016, we packed up our art, ourselves, a couple issues of TUBE. and spent the day partying down with … Continue reading
Sex is such a pervasive force in our culture it is rendered all but invisible. A quick experiment: next time during a trip downtown, make a tally of how many times a sexual image presents itself. The number will be surprisingly high. Sex is ubiquitous and used so prominently in advertising it is rendered unrecognizable. Napa-based artist Porous … Continue reading
Similar to the way children collect natural objects such as rocks, leaves, and shells to keep as treasure, Amy Chan is constantly on the lookout for unique specimens to use as inspiration for her paintings. While the separate components of Chan’s paintings are derived from real-life objects, her saturated colors, graphic backgrounds, and patterns reminiscent … Continue reading
Robin Eagan is an artist, photographer and musician based in Placerville, CA. Originally from Stockton, a few years ago he made his way to Sacramento, where he transitioned from writing and performing music to creating graphic art and photography. He began making graphic designs and selling them as shirts and prints, and delved into nature … Continue reading
Over Memorial Day weekend, TUBE. had the opportunity to drop anchor at the inaugural First Festival in West Sacramento’s River Walk Park. The festival featured 18 local bands on three stages. The Main Stage was lined up with bands like Whiskey & Stitches, D.U.S.T., A Mile Till Dawn, and Humble Wolf. The Yelp Stage featured … Continue reading
The Hideaway has given us a wall to fill with art and we could not be more excited! Each month we will feature local Sacramento artists along with live music on the 2nd Friday of the month. For the month of May we are featuring visual artists Sarah Ellliott of Sarah Elliott Visual Arts & Photography. … Continue reading
There comes a time for all artists, no matter the medium, when they find themselves struggling with what they are trying to convey or express. Sacramento artist Jim Shepherd was no exception. The struggle is not a failure for Shepherd, but a challenge to overcome in order to keep doing what he loves: painting. His … Continue reading
Denise Stewart-Sanabria is a hyperrealist artist out of Knoxville, Tennessee who specializes in re-creating the world around her through painting and woodwork. Her intricate life-size plywood drawings are so realistic they force one to look twice before realizing they are part of an installation. Through her paintings she has been able to create decadent and … Continue reading
Paola Gracey is a pharmaceutical chemist by day, and artist by night in South Florida’s emerging art scene. She blends her talents by incorporating the chemistry elements into her paintings and by experimenting in both studio and lab. Gracey has been painting for fifteen years. She first started taking it seriously in high school when she … Continue reading
TUBE. caught up with Sacramento mixed media artist Brandon Gastinell to learn a bit about his artistic process, his inspiration and to check out his studio. Brandon’s fresh take on pop art has us convinced that you will be seeing a whole lot more of him in the future. Plus, to top it all off he’s … Continue reading
TBD Festival, a three-day music, food, and shopping extravaganza came to Sacramento’s River Walk Park last weekend. On the North end, across the festival from the stalls of the mini bazaar sat the Lowbrau stage, huge and imposing. It was on that stage that MS MR played Saturday evening, drawing in the crowd and whipping … Continue reading
October 4th, 5th and 6th the Sacramento River Walk played host to the TBD Festival, a three-day music, food, and shopping extravaganza. The audience ebbed and flowed through the little maze of stalls and stages that blossomed from metal storage containers scattered around south side of the festival. On the west side of the maze, … Continue reading
Do you love to frolic with the finches? Find yourself relaxing with the ravens? Perhaps you wish there was a spa for the sparrows… If you are living in a birder’s paradise we have got the thing for you! Starlings will go starkers for a bath in this DIY bath haus for the birds. To … Continue reading
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