http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/articles.sec-68-1-cover-artist.html On the surface, Vicki Walsh’s portraits look like masterful paintings depicting mostly older subjects whose myriad emotional states are profound and palpable. ]]> Comic-Con is in the air and, if you’re like San Diegan Rebecca Hicks, it’s time to let your geek-flag fly. ]]> Janine Wareham’s work is whimsical, comical, often cheery and always delightfully weird. “Yes,” the piece on CityBeat’s cover this week, is a simple sketch that’s part of a larger project.]]> Bryan Snyder’s “Cardiff Kook Van Gogh,” the art on the cover of CityBeat this week, was a temporary installation on the famous surfing sculpture that stands about 16 feet tall just off Highway 101 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea]]> You might not recognize the bathroom on the cover of CityBeat this week (unless you’ve had to pee while checking out art at Alexander Salazar’s Fine Art Auction House).]]> Like most of Cantor’s work, “Beauty’s Privilege,” the piece on CityBeat’s cover this week, has a detailed emotional story behind it.]]> Three years ago, there’s no way Edwards would have guessed he’d end up in the scrapbooking aisle at Michaels.]]> In the winter of 2008, Roy Kerckhoffs took his Nikon to an out-of-service steel production plant in Germany. It was cold and foggy, and Kerckhoffs spent the day climbing up old blast furnaces and exploring the industrial plant.]]> For his upcoming solo show opening at Escondido’s Distinction Gallery (317 E. Grand Ave.) at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 9, artist Shay Davis has painted his modernized take on the seven deadly sins and the seven virtues.]]> When artist Mike Calway-Fagen set out to build “The Progression of Regression,” the work of art on this week’s cover of CityBeat, the first challenge was finding a stuffed dog.]]> Nate Schnell is new to San Diego. A few years ago, he packed up and moved from Austin, Texas, to a small mountain town in Colorado (full disclosure:  Schnell showed his work at my gallery while I lived in Colorado).]]> To the graffiti artists who pick up this week’s paper and eyeball the cover, it may look like something’s missing. ]]> At first glance, Daphne Hill’s most recent mixed-media collages look like pretty references to lovely ladies of bygone eras. ]]> Everyone has a guilty pleasure. For Andrea Zuill, it’s hitting up the website Cute Overload and clicking through photo after photo of darling little animals. ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]>