Marius Watz is another one of those rare half-breed coder/artists who has somehow been able to merge mathmatics with art. Consequently, there is some really beautiful imagery of strange and unusual random beauty generated from zeros and ones in his Flickr-folio.
Jorrit from SubmarineChannel sent me a note about an interview with Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist who has an exhibition running at the Museum of Art in Rotterdam Boijmans van Beuningen. It’s an informative interview and you can learn more about the exhibition here.
I am absolutely loving the portraiture abstractions and studies of artist Jeremy Chance. I was really inspired by them.
A really nice set of silk-screen prints from Richard Perez hit the internets today via Etsy. I really dig them and someone was nice enough to email me a link today to let me know of their release. They are reasonably priced and would look pretty good on a while behind a turntable if you know what I’m sayin’.
Guatemala City-based conceptual artist Stefan Benchoam emailed me today to share his work with me. I don’t usually stumble upon or see a lot of work like his and it really inspired me to look at things a little differently. Refreshing.
Justine Lai has painted herself having sex with each U.S. President, ending for now with Ulysses S. Grant. I don’t know how many more she plans on doing (pun intended) but I personally hope she keeps going because this is the coolest link I have discovered in a while. The Abraham Lincoln painting is an instant classic although spooning with Ben Franklin does look nice.
I am really digging the artwork of Matt Duffin. He works with encaustic wax on panel, which is something a little unusual that I am not totally familiar with. It definitely yields striking results.
A little more about Duffin:
“Matt Duffin was born in 1968 and grew up in Houston, Texas. He studied architecture, but never practiced as an architect. Instead, he chose to explore the more human themes of solitude and irony through art. His medium has evolved from charcoal to encaustic wax, but he continues to dwell in the realm of dark recesses and stark contrasts. He has lived in Spain, Costa Rica, and Taos, New Mexico and currently resides in northern California with his wife and two small children.”
There are some mind-bending crazy code-driven visuals in the Flickr-folio of Mi Ha.
Eden Veaudry Flickr-folio is a strange little misfit treasure trove of creative wonder. It would be wonderful to see the world through her eyes if only for a moment.
I stumbled upon the collaborative paintings of painters Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel today and was really kind of just blown away by the radical use of color, composition and staging of subjects. Each painting is like a violent but beautiful play.
Here is a little background on two incredibly talented artists:
“Asgar / Gabriel’s works depict what they call “the historization of the moment” with references to baroque and 19th century paintings. They see their protagonists as portraits of a generation following the imperative “you can be anything you want”, a generation of ideological homelessness unabashedly pursuing a new myth moving between ecstasy and nightmare.
Painting itself is the last step in their long creative process. Asgar / Gabriel begin with a photographic sketch. Each sketch consists of hundreds of compiled photographs borrowed from mass media, their private photo album and then recomposed and modified on the computer. Like a contemporary Frankenstein, each of the subjects and compositions are reconstituted time capsules and commentaries on modernity’s obsession with notions of the “ideal” calling awareness to the global patronage of this obsessively unattainable modality set forth and so pervasive in popular culture.
Daryoush Asgar was born in Tehran 1975. In 1985, during the Iran-Iraq war, his family immigrated to Austria. 1996-2000 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He exhibited in Austria, Germany, Italy and Canada and won the Austrian Strabag Art Award in 2002.
Elisabeth Gabriel was born in Vienna 1975. 1988-90 she studied piano at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts. 1994-2000 she studied philosophy and literature at the University of Vienna. She did her thesis on the Aesthetic Theory of Theodora W. Adorno. After graduation she worked at the theatre in Vienna, Berlin and Bern (Switzerland).
Asgar / Gabriel work and live in a studio in the heart of Vienna. They began their relationship musically in the 1990s playing in a garage rock-band. In 2002, they moved to Berlin where they started their painting collaborations and stayed for 3 years. Their first collaborative painting Entering Barbarians was exhibited in Vienna, 2005.”
In case you missed it this week, the street art powerhouse Faile updated with a new site and some really stellar new work.
Our very own occasional blog poster, Jeffrey Bowman teamed up with his friend and fellow illustrator Andy J. Miller to do a little spontaneous window art for the Converse office in Glasgow. They both seem like a couple of really great and fun art loving guys. It’s strange how people drop in on this blog and via email now and then to write posts or just keep in touch but we never really get the chance to meet one another in person. It’s nice to see Jeff walking and talking and doing what he loves. I hope to get to shake his hand in person someday.
Great work and congratulations Jeff and Andy. Keep it up. The world needs more art.
Amazing paintings from both an imagination and a technical standpoint pouring from the brush of the exceptionally talented artist Glenn Brown.
Really strange but compelling sculptures from the highly imaginative artist Andrew Barton. I would love to have one of these at home. Very fine art indeed.
Weird but wonderful pen drawings from the radically named Crispy Copper.
There are a few new paintings in the portfolio of Heiko Müeller for 2009. Any thing new from Heiko is worth a look.
The sculptural artwork of David Altmejd is utterly bizarre yet absolutely fascinating. I would absolutely love to see some of it in person. He is definitely an exciting talent.
Here is a quick little quote pulled from the link:
“the unusual nature of altmejd’s work is perhaps one of the key reasons behind his quick rise to prominence. figures made from an assortment of plaster, morphed mannequin parts, animal heads, crystals and birds are his primary subject. he combines these things together to create a fantastical world that plays with the conventions of reality.”
To read the rest and see more photos of his intense work head over to Design Boom.
