Though he's made his own bands' fliers over the years, Ethan Azarian's style emerges from an otherwise informal art background. His resulting playful acrylic paintings combine unexpected objects in dynamic relationships, like his free-floating fruit in heavy interiors and vacant-eyed cattle among weightless houses or paintings in his In House Gallery, like Herds of Chairs, which hangs next to Nests of Sharks, which hangs next to Chairs and Sharks. Julie Speed, on the other hand, focuses on hypnotically engaging and sometimes unnerving portraits in watercolor etching. She, too, is the successful product of a self-motivated course into art: coincidence? Only Austin knows ...
