A new art pack has been release at Depthcore and as always it features some very interesting entries. I always manage to find something there that inspires me. It is nice to see people pushing the digital format into the realm of art.
“Benbo George is a graphic designer and illustrator. Originally from the Wirral, Merseyside, he now lives and works in London. He draws on various media to create his work.”
Wow, that is some crazy stuff going on right there.
Wow, seriously good illustrations by the very talented Frank Stockton.
Matthew Palladino is based out of San Francisco but is currently in New York until the end of August. That is honestly about all the information I can give you about him. Oh yeah, that and he makes some really cool illustrations.
Ha ha, zing. Did you like how I wrote that post? Sorry, I know it was pretty corny. I partied like a rockstar in New York this weekend and I am fried today. Cut me some slack.
The wood sculptures of Michael T. Rea are just fantastic.
Here is is artist’s statement:
“Standing on the shoulders of other people’s dreams could perhaps be the most pathetic of all dreams. The intent of my work is to create something short of its outcome. My goal is to create the idea of an object that remains a dream. The objects I create are based on fictions, rather than realities. I have always been interested in the ephemeral worlds established in film, or even in popular culture. Fictions or established hearsay allow for a flawed interpretation, which leads to a flawed result. The sublime is unattainable, and not an option. I further amplify this experience by only using my memory to construct my images. Failure is imminent. I find humor allows me to enjoy this experience, and I in turn build humor into the worlds established by my work. I have chosen to depict these states with unfinished wood, and other materials which convey a sense of the temporal. I find the beauty in life lies in between moments. My work offers a sense of what could be and what could never be simultaneously.”
“Alex Dragulescu is a Romanian visual artist whose practice embraces both traditional and new media. His projects are experiments and explorations of algorithms, computational models, simulations and information visualizations that involve data derived from databases, spam emails, blogs and video game assets.
His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide in Madrid, Venice, Florence, Rome, Seoul, Sao Paolo, St Petersburg, La Habana, Arad, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and the Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest. In 2005, his software agent Blogbot, won the IBM New Media Award at the Stuttgart Festival for Expanded Media in Germany.
He has a BS in Cinema and Photography from Ithaca College and a Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from University of California at San Diego. In September 2007, Dragulescu left the Experimental Game Lab + Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UC San Diego and is now a researcher in the Social Media Group at the MIT Media Lab.”
It takes a real artist to create something beautiful out of email spam.
“Flesh, blood, excrement, the human skeleton, animal carcasses and DNA as an
information storage system are among quinn’s favorite subjects; but they give rise
to intensely meaningful expressive forms using the eternal perfection of white marble,
pharmaceutical products, wax suffused with blood, and cryogenically frozen flowers.”
You can see Marc Quinn’s work in person at:
Galerie Hopkins-Custot at Fiac
Paris, France
October 23-26, 2008
Fascinating sculptures.
Ryan Johnson was born in 1978 in Karachi, Pakistan. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He recently exhibited at Guild and Greyshkul at 28 Wooster Street in New York, NY.
I really like some of his work. It’s very contemporary. The energy conveyed in the sculpture above is palpable. It’s a highly original piece of art.
The enormously talented Matthew Woodson has updated his portfolio several times over since I last dropped in on his website at Ghostco. If you are unfamiliar with his work, do spend some time sifting through his portfolio. His illustrations are all thought provoking and of exceptional quality.
A new issue of Newwork Magazine is up for your viewing pleasure. This newest issues features a bunch of really cool people responsible for making a bunch of really cool stuff. It’s curated by people in Brooklyn so coolness is guaranteed.
From his site: “The town of Valladolid saw him grow up, come and go. While in Salamanca he graduated from Fine Arts, later on he moved to Boston to study Illustration and Design. He currently lives in Spain. He is been always searching for a way to see the inside and outside of things, to the extreme of sleeping with his eyes open.
His work has been selected and awarded by the Society of Illustrators of NY 49th Annual Exhibition, Illustration West 43, 3×3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, The National Drawing Award Gregorio Prieto, Expocomic,Jovenes Creadores2006 Comunidad Madrid , Artis Gallery Drawing Award, Arte Joven of La Junta de Castilla y Leon, and La Diputación de Valladolid. His work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, Madrid and Barcelona.”
See Raul Allen’s work here. Great stuff.
Frazer Irving doesn’t exactly have the sexiest website I have ever found but what he does have is some really interesting and contemporary illustration work and comic book work. He is responsible for a wealth of illustrations and there is a lot to wade through on his site but it is all quality and he is very good at what he does.
When you work at an advertising agency it’s commonplace that people drop by the office looking for business. This includes all kinds of people in the creative business, motion graphics agencies, production companies and photographers. One such individual, a photographer by the name of Greg Friedler dropped by the office this morning. Greg is a transplant from New York who is on the lookout for new projects in Denver.
I absolutely love photography of people and Greg’s work really impressed me. He is able to capture the personality of his subjects in his images in a way that really connects at a visceral level. He doesn’t shy away from nudity either and I think there is something artistically captivating about seeing someone off the street in the nude. His images are raw and beautiful. I was really taken back by his pictures of Havana as well. I have always wanted to go there, especially after having had lived in Miami.
Best of luck to you Greg.
I saw this at Kitsune Noir this morning and it kind of blew my mind. The video is a little slow going at first but picks up about a minute in. The video is of a kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum in Munich (I know, who knew BMW had a museum right?). 714 steel balls attached to string “moves through a cycle of free abstractions and typical BMW vehicle forms.”
It’s almost hard to explain, you kind of have to see it to believe it.
The sculpture was created by Art+Com.
Wow, awesome work from Jo Ratcliffe at Jo Can Draw. It’s always nice to see someone who uses analog methods like pencil drawing in his design work. There is something tactile and visceral about that kind of work that always resonates in the subconscious. He has some amazing typography on his site as well that was hand-rendered. I love stumbling on something like this on a Monday that inspires me and gets my juices flowing after a little time off. This was just what the doctor ordered on a rainy day.
Frank Chimero’s illustration work was a pleasant little discovery that I swear I had seen before but was happy to finally find the home base for. Here is Chimero’s profile from his website:
“Frank Chimero is a designer, illustrator and tinkerer from Missouri, USA. Inspired by the mid-century aesthetic, Frank tries to recapture the sense of optimism, playfulness, heart and charm that’s characteristic of the period. He can usually be found surrounded by many tiny slips of paper with fragments of ideas scrawled on them.”
I like style happening in the illustration portfolio of Natsko Seki.
Fascinating photography from Romain Laurent chocked-full of symbolism.
