Wow, I mean wow, I am just loving, absolutely loving the Analogue Miniatures from artist Dan McPharlin. I love all of his work actually but I really really love the analogue miniatures. They are brilliant. Just brilliant.
“Graham Rawle is a writer and collage artist whose visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. His weekly ‘Lost Consonants’ first appeared in the Weekend Guardian in 1990 and ran for 15 years. He has produced other regular series which include ‘Lying Doggo’ and ‘Graham Rawle’s Wonder Quiz’ for the Observer and ‘When Words Collide’ and ‘Pardon Mrs Arden’ for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine.
Among published books are the Wonder Book of Fun, Lying Doggo, and Diary of an Amateur Photographer. His critically acclaimed, Woman’s World, a novel created entirely from fragments of found text, is being made into a feature film. He has recently completed an illustrated book of The Wizard of Oz creating and photographing sets and characters as 1:6 scale and 3-D models, to be published in October 2008.
Graham Rawle has lectured and exhibited internationally and teaches on the MA Sequential Design and Illustration course at the University of Brighton. He lives in London.”
Surfer-artist Thomas Campbell who has been featured in the pages of Juxtapoz has a very nice slideshow of his unique brand of art happening at his website.
“Rafaël Rozendaal (1980)
Dutch and Brazilian nationality
Most people know me for my websites. My subjects range from clouds to blood, from hands to farts, from hills to dollars, from doors to fire. A friend of mine asked ‘what is your leading path?’
I cannot answer that question yet.”
The dutch/brazilian combination makes for some pretty interesting thinking as you can see by the absolutely fascinating, interesting and just downright weird experimental work on his website.
In case you missed the recent show titled, Catalyst at 24SF, there are some really nice prints and original artworks still available from the show at their online storefront. Including some really amazing work by the absolutely brilliant Aaron Horkey. I am a big fan of his work. He possesess pure inarguable artistic talent.
Jason Jagel is the artist responsible for those fantastic MF Doom covers.
Eduardo Recife has been at it for a long time now and his work is every bit as fresh as it was when he first started out. Luckily for all of us he keeps on going and getting better and he has just launched the 4th version of Misprinted Type.
“Dan May was born and raised in the suburbs of Rochester, NY. He attended Syracuse University, where he received a BFA in illustration. He spends his days (and nights) painting dreamlike environments that transcend space and time. These delightful yet haunting images are often based in personal observations of both human’s and nature’s relationships with each other, blended with a healthy dose of whimsy, fantasy and cautious relevance. His artwork has graced the pages of numerous publications, and has been shown in galleries throughout the US and abroad. He has received honors from Communication Arts Illustration Annual and American Illustration. Dan lives and works in Atlanta, GA with his beautiful and inspiring wife Kendal and their feisty bird Jax.”
“Could be me” is a project exploring possibility of one artist occupying another’s space. It is a visual adventure and an interpretation of the same sentence by different artists worldwide.
I am loving the illustrative paintings of retro-futuristic women in space suits, sometimes accompanied by robots, from artist Phil Noto. Good stuff.
More on Banksy’s visit to New Orleans in his own words on his website here.
Minimally austere structural sculpture by French artist Valerie Collart.
It might be a bit of an understatement calling Charlie White’s work disturbing but he creates the kind of images that you won’t soon forget even though you might like to. It is definitely the intersection of fine art and photography but he is forcing some issues to the surface that most people would rather keep buried. And I like that.
Interesting art in varying styles and executions by someone who no doubt must be an equally interesting person and that person is ‘super fine’ artist Yuko Adachi.
Artist statement:
“My work is about a celebration of human creativity and being alive in the present moment. I do not do any preliminary sketches for any of my works. I dive into the unknown and just follow where my energy and curiosity takes me in the given moment. Through the creation of my work, I want to become one with the universal energy and tap into unlimited well of my imagination and express it.
Art is love and it is my life.
-YUKO ADACHI”
Very strange collages by Bryony Lloyd. Strange in a good way but still very strange.
I have no idea what this is really for, but I thought it was very well executed and I think the visual outcome is really fantastic. It is a great little piece of cinematography inspiration if anything else.
Ahh, I spoke with Scot LeFavor about this little incident last week at the Manifest Hope wrap party and it was almost funnier in person. He went out last week with the notorious Shepard Fairey and was arrested for wheat pasting posters up around Denver. Scot, Fairey and his crew were apparently mistaken for a group of crazy anarchists. It scared the shit out of Scot at first but, I said, ‘C’mon man, you were arrested with Shepard Fairey, how awesome is that?’ That’s every designer/artist’s dream come true.
* Alright, I have to revise this a little. If you are not a fan of Shepard Fairey or into what he has done, you probably wouldn’t find being arrested with him a dream come true. Apologies there.
Scot is rocking one of my t-shirts in the video by the way. Thanks Scot.
This has been circulating like a wildfire all over the net lately so it wouldn’t surprise me if you have heard already, but the infamous street artist Banksy has been busy coating the 9th ward of New Orleans with his signature brand of street art to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in a way only he could. Once again all of the work is provocative and even more so when you consider that the art isn’t hanging on some gallery wall, it is right there on the street where the floods occurred and people died. The word is he is now on a tour of the south as his work has lately appeared in Alabama. You have to respect him for continuing the force people to think and confront the issues we deny that continue to erode our society. He is a man of the times and he has earned his place in art history for a reason.
As Hurricane Gustav once again pounds New Orleans today and fears are rising that loosened ships may puncture the levies, his work seems all the more timely.
