New and of course amazing work has been added to the heavy hitting portfolio of the artistic talent James Jean. His work is as inspiring as ever and you can now spend a healthy dose of time sifting through archives of his again amazing work. Wow. He is truly the real deal.
Philippe Chabot on his work, “My work deals with absurdity, dumbness, disenchantment, cult and decay. I am interested in the ways television, radio, web and entertainment culture affect our social and individual identities. I am also intrigued by the position of painting among all the other forms of visual media that surrounds us, and I believe that visual art, in its institutional format, is evolving away from the general public.”
I haven’t just flat out ‘liked’ someone’s fine art in a while as much as I like Chabot’s. It’s like a blender of Francis Bacon, Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat and maybe just a hair of Walt Disney thrown in for seasoning. It’s everything I love combined.
“Bayo’s work depicts cheerless and melancholic worlds, where the main character is the psyque, as an epicenter of implosion and confrontation among the diverse layers of the subconscious level. Sometimes euphoric, sometimes epic, sometimes psychotic, his draw denotes such a trajectory where we are constantly infected with the deepest anxiety. His characters tend to avoid frontal sight, just like whoever notices contact as a mere exposition of his/her own fragility. Just as much as the arbitrariness of his forms allow us to see that he pays no devotion to the statutes of reason. His pieces travel throughout the harshness of obsessive details, the vagueness of repetition, and the sudden outbreak of movement. All of this in order to express the architecture of his emotions, with such a complexity that can’t be put as subtle.” -Evan Rodd
“Arranged like a symphony orchestra, approximately 200 antique vacuums, mixers and washers are transformed into musical instruments. They form an ensemble that the conductor, harpsichordist and composer Michael Petermann, alias weiserrausch.de, has now completed after eight years of preparation: The Stupid Orchestra.”
This installation is currently on display at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (mkg-hamburg.de).
Agency Charlie has put together a nice little series of short stories about individuals from various neighborhoods in San Francisco titled Neighbors. This segment focuses on Mike Giant and his life and work as an artist in SF. Mike is someone we have always held in high regard.
Angelo Bramanti and Giuseppe Siracusa bring waste materials and found objects alive to create some truly strange but memorable pieces of pop art under the name l017.
Bodagh is the art/illustration work of Daniel Reyes who has a very small but interesting body of strangely psychedelic imagery.
Dev Harlan uses foam, plaster and video projection mapping to make some strange, wondrous and truly psychedelic art installations. This video is from an ongoing show at the Christopher Henry Gallery, NY, NY.
Sydney based Artist Anna-Wili Highfield uses paper and copper piping to create exquisite bird and animal sculptures.
Director Chris Read points his camera under the watch of Hypebeast at the acclaimed artist Parra to try and uncover how he manages to keep things so simple but generate imagery that resonates with such a large audience.
My friend and local Denver-based artist Jason Thielke recently updated his website with several new pieces he has been working on for upcoming exhibitions. I’ve always liked Jason’s work and he’s got some good looking new stuff at his website.
French artist Marvin De Deus Ganhitas AKA Black Gepeto is laying down some strange abstract compositions that can be enjoyed via his Flickrfolio. We likey. Very strange yet very hip and of course that perfect combination is very French.
Russian illustrator collage artist Masha Rumyantseva has an interesting perspective primarily fueled by a bygone slightly naive era that seems slightly sad when put into the modern cynical techno-industrial societal complex.
Erik Månsson or Erik M▲nsson as he calls himself at his Flickrfolio is from Norrköping, Sweden where he is making some very interesting collages that make you question his interpretation of the source material and how he magically arrived at the strange final output of his final work.
Lionel Williams does not believe in fantasy, he believes in vast reality. He’s creating his own reality by appropriated found imagery into some fascinating image collages that you can see in his Flickrfolio.
Artist William Crump is a multi-faceted talent capable of collaging strange found object imagery as well as drawing some excellent graphite imagery all of which vibrates with a strange, soft yet psychedelic undertone.
Sculptor Emil Alzamora was originally born in Peru but was raised in Florida where he attended Florida State University. His writhing, elongated, fattened and distorted human forms are disturbingly beautiful in their smooth vivid detail. There are a few images of his work at his website but more more can be seen through a simple Google image search.
Sam Durant has an upcoming exhibit, “Laissez Fair et Laissez Passer, Le Monde Vade Lui Meme” at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles. February 19 through March 26.
