Los Angeles based Artist Marco Zamora is currently exhibiting at the Fecal Face Gallery and his urban observations in watercolor and ink look especially striking in the gallery setting. I’d love to see the work in person but until I can afford a ticket west I will settle for the larger images at the Fecal Face Dot Gallery website.
Russian artist Stas Chepurnov has a strange cache of work including the above installation that is hypnotic. His work is a mix of pop and reactionary cynicism to popular culture with a particular fascination for HD television. How cool would it be to have the above installation in your home or studio (a good client distraction at least)?
Bobby from Kitsune Noir strolled into Arktitp’s Project Space in Los Angeles to capture several behind-the-scenes images from the Parra exhibit. It looks like it was a great show and Parra decided to keep it black and white. The above piece was my favorite. Be sure to scroll down at the always wonderful Kitsune Noir to see more images from the exhibition.
Painter Inka Essenhigh is based in New York. Essenhigh studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio (1991) and the School of Visual Arts in New York (1993). Her work has been widely exhibited and is a part of several distinguished public collections including the Albright Knox Art Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Tate Gallery and the Saatchi Gallery in London. She is currently represented by Gallery 303 in New York, and the Victoria Miro Gallery in London.
The Brighton Freak Show features the work of some of the South Coast’s most unique image makers and is a part of the Brighton Open House Festival. Exhibitors include Shan Jiang, Mega Munden, Luke Insect, Hello Marine, Imakethings and Steve Wilson amongst several others. The show opens April 30th from 7-9 PM and will run the length of the festival in May. The show takes place at St. Peter’s Church, York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GU United Kingdom.
Old skateboards take on a new life as art through the attentive hands behind project Harvest by Haroshi. It’s hard to believe skateboards were used to generate these works and the effect achieved is pure pop art candy perfection. A dimensional skull constructed of layered retired skateboards? Yes please.
Dublin-based artist/illustrator Denise Nestor has a nice series of fashion-inspired pencil drawings in her Flickr-folio. The layering effect in some of the pieces is striking. You can also view her work via blog-folio Trees for the Woods.
Painter Mark Ryden paints ‘Incarnation’ in this time-lapsed video. A painting that apparently sold at Art Basel for $800,000. Amazing. The painting will be exhibited at ‘The Gay Nineties Show’ opening on Thursday, April 29th, 2010. The show is open through June 5th at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York.
Directed Geoffrey Mann
Produced Chris Labrooy
Commissioned by Past, Present & Future Craft Practice
The audio sample was taken from the film American Beauty.
“The focus of the Past, Present & Future Craft practice commission was to examine the intangible characteristic of the spoken word and investigate the unseen affect of sound upon its inhabited environment.
The project centralizes around the context of a domestic argument. In this case the event samples an audio excerpt from the 1999 Sam Mendes Film ‘American Beauty’. The slow building dialogue between the three central characters family dinner climaxes with a sound clash of emotions. The cross-fire of the argument traverses the dinning table but where previously the inanimate everyday objects such as plates, cutlery, teapot etc were unable to express their character, the intensity of the conversation deforms their once static existence into objects of unseen familiarity.
The presented sound artifacts each encapsulate a momentary emotion of the argument.”
For more details please visit mrmann.co.uk
Painter Matt Mignanelli’s pop art painting confections have been peaking through the blogosphere subterfuge in the last few weeks. His subtly gradiating paintings of bricks (which I at first mistook at first for keys on a keyboard) seem to be popular. Mignanelli is currently based out of New York City but has exhibited far and wide. You can see his work at both his website and through his Flickr stream.
Artist Dirk Dzimirsky draws his work at a large scale using colored pencils, pastels, charcoal and whatever works to achieve an nearly impossible amount of detail. The images appear almost photographic and I would speculate in order to really appreciate the absolute commitment to craft you would need to stand before one of the works in person and lean in to see just how difficult it was to create it. Truly amazing.
I stumbled across the Flickrfolio of Colorado artist Lucong today and was once again totally blown away by his work but also delighted in being treated to some extra-large examples of his beautiful paintings. He is a true talent and I need to make it to one of his shows. His work is absolutely stunning.
Remember all the way back in 2009 when the Omega Code poster craze swept the net and everyone jumped on board to create their own (including myself)? Well a few of those posters are now actually available for purchase at Society 6. I have to admit that I my personal favorite (out of the grouping for sale) belongs to Tom Muller.
I am sure for the die-hard creative blog circuit tourists Andy Gilmore needs no introduction but I stumbled across his Flickrfolio today and noticed he had several new things in his book for 2010. As always, all of the latest examples are a study in color and geometry resulting in pure modern art eye candy. If I could share a little secret with you, and in absolutely no way, shape or form am I belittling Andy’s work (especially because I am a big fan and frequently check back at his website to see what is new) but his images make for the coolest wallpaper tiles and iPhone wallpapers. They have been adorning my scree for well over a year now and I never tire of looking at them.
Photo-artist Julia Peirone was born 1973 and currently lives and works in Stockholm. She is fearless with her camera painting introspective and contemplative imagery that she also translates into video and sculpture installations.
French art duo Petra Mrzyk & Jean-François Moriceau live in Chatillon, Indre where they work on generating some fascinating graphic illustrations 365 days a year. Their commitment to art has lead them to exhibit around the world.
“Alexa Meade’s innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.”
Alexa Meade is a 23-year-old artist based in Washington, DC. She graduated with a degree in Political Science from Vassar College in May of 2009. She spent several summers interning on Capitol Hill and in 2008 was a press staffer on the Obama Campaign.
Her painting techniques push the boundary of perception by compressing three dimensional subjects into two dimensional planes. Essentially, Meade wraps live subjects (people) and objects in paint reversing the normal approach of an artist painting from a source subject and instead painting directly onto the source subject.
I wanted to apologize for getting to this one late. I actually saw this a week back, had it logged in a document somewhere and just never got around to having the time to post it this week. Do check out Meade’s work as it is definitely a fascinating approach to the accepted approach to paint and canvas.
‘It Was On Earth That I Knew Joy’ is the recent art film directed by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier and presented by the ever-inpiring Sixpack France. The film premiered on February 20th at the SCION Gallery in Los Angeles in an exhibition curated by Sixpack France. The trailer alone is a thought provoking bit of short film.
If you haven’t visited Sixpack France lately, now is a good time to do so. They have recently relaunched and stocked up with a really amazing new collection of apparel. I was and always have been a big fan of their t-shirts, especially considering the caliber of artists, designers and illustrators they work with but they are growing into an inspiring brand. I try to steer from being a free PR engine here but my admiration for what they do is sincere. They seem to have genuinely rooted their company in a passion for the arts and that’s an inspiring model for all of us in this business.
