“Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.” Maeve Binchy ••• The Mad Gallery ••• Mad Swirl is excited to welcome artist Eric Suhem to the Mad Gallery with trippy, patterned pieces that feel a little like candy for the eyeballs. His work is cohesive and yet each piece is so uniquely different and we just wish we could take …
Mad Swirl Open Mic : 06.01.22
by Johnny O on May 28, 2022 :: 0 comments
Join Mad Swirl this 1st Wednesday of June (aka 06.01.22) when we’ll once again be doin’ the open mic voodoo that we do do at our OC home, BARBARA’S PAVILLION and from our Mad Zoom Room (broadcasted via FB Live)! Starting at 7:30pm, hosts Johnny O & MH Clay will kick off these open mic’n Mad Swirl’n festivities with some …
New Featured Artist : Eric Suhem
by Madelyn Olson on May 27, 2022 :: 0 comments
Mad Swirl is excited to welcome artist Eric Suhem to the Mad Gallery with trippy, patterned pieces that feel a little like candy for the eyeballs. His work is cohesive and yet each piece is so uniquely different and we just wish we could take a peek inside of Suhem’s brain so that we could figure out how the heck he …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 05.21.22
by Johnny O on May 22, 2022 :: 0 comments
“What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.” Albrecht Durer ••• The Mad Gallery ••• “#12” ~ Howie Good To see all of Howie’s mad collages, as well as our other resident artists (50+ and counting!) take a virtual stroll thru Mad Swirl’s Mad Gallery! ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This past week on Mad Swirl’s Poetry …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 05.14.22
by Johnny O on May 15, 2022 :: 0 comments
“I think all art is about control – the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.” Richard Avedon ••• The Mad Gallery ••• “On the Clock” ~ Howie Good To see all of Howie’s mad collages, as well as our other resident artists (50+ and counting!) take a virtual stroll thru Mad Swirl’s Mad Gallery! ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This past …
The Best of Mad Swirl : v2021
by Johnny O on May 11, 2022 :: 0 comments
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! The Best of Mad Swirl : v2021 is available right HERE! 2021 has been yet another extraordinarily challenging year. Thru it all, Mad Swirl was there, every one of the 365 days of it. We didn’t miss a beat. Those beats are what you’ll get when you dig into 2021’s best of collection. Get …
Another Mad Review: I Garden Weeds
by MH Clay on May 11, 2022 :: 0 comments
I Garden Weeds by Ethan Goffman Cyberwit.net (October 25, 2021) Available at Amazon Imagine a wry resignation to the inevitability of death, time, and change. A calico moment of enlightenment when cat jumps in lap at the strike of a gong. Imagine a morbid fascination with spirals; the spinning of galaxies, hurricanes, dishwater circling the drain. Imagine finding a balance …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 05.07.22
by Johnny O on May 8, 2022 :: 0 comments
“It is the glory and good of Art / That Art remains the one way possible / Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.” Robert Browning ••• The Mad Gallery ••• “No. 18” ~ Howie Good To see all of Howie’s mad collages, as well as our other resident artists (50+ and counting!) take a virtual stroll thru Mad …
Note of Gratitude to the Mad Ones : 05.04.22
by Johnny O on May 5, 2022 :: 0 comments
If you joined Mad Swirl Open Mic this past 1st Wednesday of May (aka 05.04.22) at our OC home, Barbara’s Pavillion, then you know that once again whirl’d up the Swirl and got the Mad mic opened for all you Mad ones out there! Huge GRATS to our feature guest, Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquin Zihuatanejo, for joining in on our …
The Best of Mad Swirl : 04.30.22
by Johnny O on May 1, 2022 :: 0 comments
“I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.” Sally Mann ••• The Mad Gallery ••• “Sunset of Empire” ~ Howie Good To see all of Howie’s mad collages, as well as our other resident artists (50+ and counting!) take a virtual stroll thru Mad Swirl’s Mad Gallery! ••• The Poetry Forum ••• This past week on Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum… we dropped our …