Pepe Lozano Cordoba, Spain
Chen Zhen Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Pepe Lozano Cordoba, Spain
MalOjo Basque Country
Matt Rota Brooklyn, New York
APRIL 2016
Eric Seaholm Tokyo, Japan
This is no ink blot test. If you think you see something in
Eric Seaholm's ballpoint pen drawings, it's understandable
— but you only think you see something...
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pictured : Inku Stillack, 2013. © Eric Seaholm
DEC 2015 ~ JAN 2016
James Mylne PICKSSPECIAL London, England
Overworked rabbit seeks nirvana in London is how
James Mylne's Samsara & The City might read as a back
page Personals listing in a weekly tabloid...
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pictured : Samsara & The City, 2015. © James Mylne
Shane McAdams Wisconsin / Brooklyn
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DECEMBER 2016
Lennie Mace RETROSPECTACLE Tokyo, Japan 1994-2004
By 1994, Lennie Mace had made a name for himself as an illustrator and had been exhibiting his ballpoint pen artwork in New York annually since 1990. ...
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pictured : The Longer The Drool... 2005. © Lennie Mace
FEBRUARY 2016
Shane McAdams INKEDIN Wisconsin, USA
Artist Shane McAdams is not only among the busiest of
ballpointers but he is also among the few who do not
require the ''ballpoint pen'' prefix...
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pictured : Soft Maple, 2015. © Shane McAdams
Lennie Mace Tokyo, Japan
NOVEMBER 2016
Talk To Them Shirish Deshpande Belgaum, India
When we last visited with Shirish Deshpande in 2014, he'd only just begun the series of artworks which would present viewers with his rural India environs...
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pictured : Lakkundi Houses 2, 2016. © Shirish Deshpande
M.I. Shaikh Mumbai, India
Peter Ross Hong Kong
MAY 2016
Pepe Lozano Cordoba, Spain
In his first interview for the English-speaking world,
Pepe Lozano tells us a little bit about himself and his work,
and shares one of his newest...
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pictured : Dreams of Liberty, 2016. © Pepe Lozano
Holly Cappello Portland, Oregon
AUGUST 2016
REALLY ? Hype & 'Hyper' New York, NY
A lengthy international flight allowed publisher R. Bell and columnist B. Neufeld ample time to butt heads about
all-things-ballpoint and ballpoint photorealism...
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pictured : Portrait, 2016. © Nicolas V. Sanchez
Andrey Poletaev Lugansk, Ukraine
Lennie Mace, 1984 New York, New York
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MARCH 2016
Andrey Poletaev PICKSSPECIAL Lugansk, Ukraine
Andrey Poletaev's ongoing Cityscape series has, since
2013, taken viewers to real places which might not otherwise be attainable to them...
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pictured : Parisian Street, Dec 2015. © Andrey Poletaev
Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng Dublin, Ireland
Guy Woodard New York, New York
Andrey Poletaev Lugansk, Ukraine
OCTOBER 2016
(HE)ARTBROKEN Juan Francisco Casas exhibition review
The art is, as we all may know, rendered by means of meticulous ballpoint draftsmanship, but the idea always seemed to be 'Look how good I am at copying these photos with this ballpoint pen'...
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pictured : I Am Not Complicated, 2016. © J.F. Casas
JUNE 〜 JULY 2016
Lennie Mace RETROSPECTACLE New York, NY 1984-1994
'Decade 1' of a 3-part online retrospective. No other
ballpointer is more deserving than Lennie Mace, who has
produced an expansive body of work in more than 30 years...
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pictured : California Zephyr, 1994. © Lennie Mace
Shirish Deshpande Belgaum, India
James Mylne, 1999 London, England
Ler Huang Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Since 2014
Dave Warshaw San Diego, California
SEPTEMBER 2016
Sir James James Mylne London England
The divergent creative paths which Brit ballpointer James Mylne had embarked upon over the past couple of years now converge for his latest collection, Grandly Grimey...
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pictured : JRM Desktop 9, 2016. © James Mylne
Gareth Edwards Stourbridge, England
Jonathan Madeja Quezon City, Philippines
Eric Seaholm Tokyo, Japan