Marcelo Daldoce started painting at 16. Three years later he dropped out of school to as he simply puts, “stay home to paint by myself.” “I always liked to draw when I was a kid, but I never really thought about pursuing it,” the artist explains. “In high school, a friend suggested I apply to a Magnet School for the arts. I guess when I actually got accepted I realized I could make a living with art.”
Lady Aiko might just be a pin-up herself. The artist launched her solo career in 2006 with works on canvas that incorporate collage, stenciling, brushwork, spray paint, and serigraphs. This bricolage technique perfectly suits AIKO’s eclectic practice of voracious mash-up of Japanese and American pop culture, soft-corn porn and erotic art.
It’s officially spring. The birds are chirping. Pimps and players are flirting. And the girls? Well depending on who you ask, they run the world. It wouldn’t be spring without a tribute to the girls, girls, girls.
You wake up at 3 in the morning and trek through the frigid cold in search for the perfect token of gratitude for your loved one. Later, you plan a date to the ice skating rink even though you’ve never trusted the idea of gliding with knives underneath your feet. To end the night, the two of you snuggle in your matching Snuggies and watch another showing of A Christmas Story. All for what? Love.
