Allentown, Pennsylvania based oil painter Angela Fraleigh paints people moving, filtering and breaking through dark and light shattered space. The paintings feel very personal and almost intrusive in a way that as a viewer you feel as though you are peaking in on an awkward moment. The paintings often have long titles that suggest spiritual introspection.
Swiss-born artist Paolo Fumagalli is not afraid to get your mental gears spinning and even tweak your inner fears. His art mixes natural forms in collision with modern day pop culture values of violence and consumption. It makes for a disturbing cocktail that leaves a lasting and sometimes disturbing impression on the psyche. It’s even more ironic when you consider he resides in the gorgeous city of Florence, Italy. What a nice place to dwell on the ills and decay of modern society.
Brooklyn based artist and sculptor Nick van Woert has some new work on his website that is worth noting if anything for it’s peculiarity. A cross-sectional breakdown of a classic roman marble bust is an interesting concept and makes for an arresting visual. There is also an obvious deeper undertone to the re-imagining of traditional art and it’s context within the societal psyche. Weird. But good weird.
Well, I first have to apologize for this late post. My friend Elysia Syriac has worked terribly hard this year at putting together this event and it’s going to be a fantastic one at that. Bordo Bello is on tonight (Thursday) at Artwork Network. The exhibition starts at 6pm and goes until 10pm. This year guarantees to be a real showstopper. If you haven’t heard of the event before, it takes place right here (where I am) in Denver, Colorado and features some amazing artists and designers who have used the skateboard as their template. The boards are auctioned off in rounds at the event and the money goes to charity. It’s a great event for a great cause and definitely not something you should miss if you are here in Denver.
I am a big believer in posting the day of the event to bolster last minute attendance (we are minute by minute people when it comes to internet culture after all), so please don’t disappoint me and plan on being there. I will most likely be wearing my glasses with big bags under my eyes since I have been working day and night on projects for the Changethethought creative studio. So if you think you might know who I am, please don’t hesitate to say hello and strike up a conversation. Meeting new people in the community and gathering around really great art is what this is all about.
Changethethought has created a series of 3 boards that we are calling ‘2001: A Skate Odyssey’ that will be auctioned off at this years event. I will post photos after the event. You can catch a little preview above. I will see you there.
Bordo Bello
Thursday September 30th
6pm until 10pm
At the Artwork Network
9th and Santa Fe, Denver, Directions
RSVP early $15 in advance/$20 at the door
There are some new and veerrrrry trippy paintings in the Behance-folio of San Francisco based painter Ted Vasin. His work continues to become more unique as he grows and he remains an artist to watch.
“The Dutch duo (Lernert & Sander) have taken seven of the most mundane of household domestic appliances and comedically refashioned them into divine creations.”
You can see the result at Blinkart. It’s an excellent installation at Selfridges that challenges the viewers perception of common domestic objects as sexy pieces of art.
“We animated this spot for the official 2010 Gaz Metro campaign, we’re really proud of this piece. We worked crazy hours all through the night & with a ton of real chalk and paint to create this stop motion madness. Enjoy and please let us know what you think. Stay tuned for a making-of doc”
Wow, who knew what you could do with chalk?
Credits:
Client: Gaz Metro
Agency: Sid Lee (Jimmy Lee)
Direction: Jérémie Saindon
Production: QuatreZeroUn
Animation Direction: Fred Caron
Animation: Fred Caron, Sylvie Trouvé, Dale Hayward
Post Production: Mokko Studio
To learn more about the creators visit:
lamoustache.ca
Artist, photographer and sculptor Rachel de Joode’s work is a mishmash of several elements. It’s hard to forecast what she might do next and she seems able to move rather fluidly between the worlds of contemporary art, artistic photography, performance art and fashion. It makes her an interesting personality and someone to keep tabs on as there is no telling what she might be up to now.
Hypebeast has put together a nice overview of the recent Takashi Murakami exhibit happening within the opulent setting of the Chateau de Versailles. I have always been on the fence as to whether or not I am really a fan of Murakami’s work but I think the juxtaposition of his work in such a pomp setting creates a highly ironic clash that’s pretty hard to ignore. I’d imagine it would be fun to visit the show in person and listen to what the crowd had to say.
Rebecca Artemisa Urias is a true creative spirit and expresses that spirit through art and photography. She is just an all around fun, whimsical and interesting talent. You can view some of her endeavors in her Flickr folio but often times, you can find more examples of her work here at Lebasseprojects, Togethergallery and read her ramblings here.
Dwell Magazine is now offering a series of limited edition prints from some notable artists, illustrators and designers. The list of names involved includes some of my personal favorites like Mario Hugo, Mike Perry and Steven Harrington
Talented artist/illustrator McBess cranks out a live drawing for Inkygoodness 4 “PLAY” and through the magic of video you all get to watch. I really like his style a lot.
I dropped in on the Artcrank poster show this weekend which is currently exhibiting at the Lisa Koslowski Gallery until next Saturday. There were some excellent posters in the show this year, and I purchased two from some local friends of mine. I purchased Ctt blogger and Legwork partner Aaron Ray’s poster as well as Anthony Cozzi’s. I was really blown away by Anthony’s poster. The screens were air tight and the use of color was used to great effect. If you have a chance this week and are here in Denver definitely stop by the gallery if you are looking to pick up some unique pieces of art.
If you can’t make it to the show, you can still purchase a copy of Anthony Cozzi’s poster here.
Artist David Platt paints pattern-like compositions primarily in black and white but I was most drawn to the above colorful piece.
German street artist QBRK is part of the TPL Crew and has taken his work from both the street to the gallery and back again. He has a colorful and artistic style and it makes for an interesting display in the carefully selected places he chooses to paint.
Yes the work of Roxanne Jackson will disturb you. That is what it is meant to do. After you are disturbed and while your interest has been peaked, if you can get past the raw emotion you will also realize she is a very talented artist capable of working fluidly with several mediums.
Jackson on her work, “I am concerned with confronting the shadows of the unconscious, having a dialogue with the grotesque and, therein, discovering beauty. The tenor of my work is macabre and emotional as I deal with extreme axioms to dramatize the dualities of our nature; these polar aspects reside within us and include vulnerability and strength, the light and the dark, the human and the inhuman.”
Spanish painter Yago Hortal lives and works in Berlin. Hortal does more with a single stroke than most painters can do with toolbox full of technique. His abstract work employs the use of vivid color and makes no apology for being what it is: a painting. Lovely work.
