Ansen Seale is one of those rare photographers who found a way to paint with his camera. His ‘Temporal Form’ series could almost be described as sculptural imagery utilizing the human form as it’s foundation. He accomplishes his images by using slitscan photography. As opposed to me butchering a description of that process I have pulled some copy from Seale’s artist statement below.
Here is a section pulled from the artist’s statement:
“Over the past 10 years, I have pursued a little-known genre called slitscan photography. Far from being just a visual curiosity, it has become a substantial tool for the exploration of themes meaningful to me. I have found slitscan photography to be an excellent vehicle for ideas central to my work– ideas about time and our place in its continuum.
It is important to understand that these images are not manipulated. This is the way my camera sees the world.
Rather than suspending a single moment, my photography examines the passage of time. To accomplish this, I invented a modern digital version of the panoramic camera. In my version, a single sliver of space is imaged over an extended period of time, yielding the surprising result that unmoving objects are blurred and moving bodies are rendered clearly. The model in the studio must move in order to be captured. In the Water series, the stones in the river do not move, and so, become stripes. The water flowing past them perturbs their static image, creating a kind of color field painting. This is no trick. This is photography in the purist sense, but a form of photography where abstraction is the norm, not the exception.”
Brooklyn based photographer Alex Gaidouk captures quiet contemplative moment of serenity that can lift you out of your present reality and put your somewhere, albeit momentarily as an observer, which is a unique gift.
Ashkan Honarvar who is based out of Utrecht, Netherlands has some disturbing yet remarkable photo-retouching-art in his Behance portfolio that is almost impossible to take your eyes off of.
This particular series that looks as though the subjects faces have been mutilated but on closer inspection reveals the retouched devastation is actually comprised of candy is disturbing and fantastic. Spectacular work.
Jenkins is a mixed media artist and illustrator living in the U.K. He is responsible for some very compelling imagery that communicates a very raw and tactile quality. It’s hard not to like and I would imagine his work would look great hanging on a wall. You can also check his more regularly updated Flickr pages.
Eccentric photographer, very very eccentric photographer Terry Richardson has his own blog that he keeps very well stocked with his signature brand of raw imagery *including some kind of funny images of Terry Richardson.
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Painter Robert Hardgrave continues to evolve his work into something really extraordinary and beautiful and some of his recent works available at the Joshua Liner Gallery are stunning studies in color and form. I was really taken by some of his latest works.
Nuremberg-based Artist ‘Gerhard Mayer draws with ink on paper and on walls. His lines are controlled, precise, and technicaly exact.’ The precision required to execute his pen and ink works is impressive and his collage work requires an equal amount of attention. Impressive and beautiful imagery is the result of his labor.
Photographer and visual artist Gustavo Lopez Mañas has been making some waves around the creative blogosphere lately with his cover and photo-art series titled ‘Avatars’ for Coilhouse Magazine. There is good cause for the buzz, as you can tell by browsing the image series as he managed to realize some beautiful images and elaborate costumes. You can view the entire series at Lopez’s Behance-folio.
Lopez was born and educated in Granada and awarded 2nd prize in the category of Music by the International Photography Awards in New York and took gold from the Lux Photography Awards in 2005 and 2008.
I was recently asked by Computer Arts to collaborate with NIARK 1 on a project for a recently released issue. I have been crunched for time lately with everything going on and wasn’t able to do it. I knew all about the French illustrator/artist/designer but I guess I didn’t realize until seeing a recent addition to his Behance-folio how talented of a painter he is. It’s a unique thing to be able to generate your imagery fluidly across digital and analog mediums and he is fully capable of doing it in style.
Currently NYC-based photographer Katheryn Love captures dreamy contemplative imagery that trips the imagination and sparks introspection. You can also view her work at her Flickr-folio and scroll her Tumblr blog.
Artist and illustrator Rachel Ann Lindsay has been busy lately and recently updated her website with some new work including her wonderful continuous line drawings. I used to do these in college. You basically take a pen/pencil, put it to the paper, begin drawing and do not lift the pen from the page until you are finished. The end result is a drawing comprised of a single line starting at one point and ending at another. They are very ‘stream of consciousness-like’ and mastering them isn’t an easy feat.
The RRR Project which stands for ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ invites participants to take a look around their environment and see what they can save, pick up and turn over to look at in a different way. The end result has been a mishmash of art, design, photography, illustration from some very talented people. The first effort was published as a free downloadable e-zine that was released to celebrate Earth Day but RRR has recently gone into print with an absolutely gorgeous little book that is inspiring already just peering through jpegs. I first stumbled on the project last night while browsing FPO (For Print Only) and was really impressed. I am ordering a copy today and will be excited to receive it. The project helps support the Surfrider Foundation. You can see some of the art from the book in RRR’s Flickr pages and purchase a copy from their website. Fantastic work.
“For the first time in HD on Christmas 2009: … _grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds …
Media critic Matt Hanson, author of The End of Celluloid and founder of onedotzero festival says: “_grau appeals to me because it is organo-tech. it does not deliberately ape the abstract pioneers of abstract cinema, and it is worlds away from the motion graphic masturbation of many of those enamoured by digital animation. seidel’s work is impressionistic, melding biological and emotional currents. out of amorphous shapes we make out bones, heads, a hand. a spirit leaving the body. at least, this is what i sense out of the chaos of galactic reconfigurations, neurological connections, and biological forms. this is a powerful piece of digital animation precisely because it does not feel like such, it feels emotional, epic. and once you release the background to the animation–communicating a ‘coming to terms’ with the aftermath of a car accident–you realise why. ”
Artist Nick Ervinck has posted some recent imagery from the Fantastic Illusions exhibit at the MOCA in Shanghai, China. Nick has been busy this year and his work is getting even more amazing. He has a real talent to realize some highly unusual sculpture at a grand scale and I would imagine seeing it in person is an experience.
Italian illustrator Flavio Melchiorre creates densely-layered vector style work that he sometimes works into complex abstract patterns that fry your brain when you try to look at them.
Sebastian Foster is an Austin-based contemporary art gallery that features some excellent work from several artists (including the talented Betsy Walton who is responsible for the image above). You can purchase original works of art from the website as well. It’s a rare and unique opportunity to get your hands on some original work for your collection at home.
