Posted By: vee @ February 8th, 2010
Portland photographer Tyler Kohlhoff explores Inland Empires, the spread in Southern California out east when you’re headed to Nevada or Arizona. Now at The Tribute Gallery, the images stand in stark contrast with the white walls of the gallery space and seem to stand still in time, capturing littered remains of home and memories faded into the past. For all who are interested in urban or rural decay, Kohlhoff’s photographs are little slices of grimey beauty.
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Posted By: vee @ February 7th, 2010
A diptych by Levan Kakabadze
Hydrogen, by Schühle Lewis, which Lewis says is good for Physicists and Scientists and bad for Creationists. The image is based off of a quote by Edward R. Harrison, which can be found here.
Artist Morgan Blair is all about bright colors and abstract shapes. Her website is dizzying, but a lot of her pieces intersperse geometric shapes with well-drawn figures, and it is these that are most interesting. See below.
Recoat’s Good Wives And Warriors.
Caitlin Hackett combines beauty with decay in this amazingly illustrated Vulpes Masquerade.
Digital collage by Katty Bouthier that is simple but otherworldly.
A drawing by Chris Scarborough that turns this deer into quite a mound of shapes.
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Posted By: vee @ February 3rd, 2010
Mover and shaker Jim Denevan sees the big picture. Like a movie director, all of his works — whether they be manipulations of sand and earth or more human-oriented experimental projects — seem to share a common thread of small details benefiting a larger whole. His food project, Outstanding In The Field, features a world-wide moveable feast that takes place in rural areas and unlikely scenery.
Visit his website for notes on how he accomplishes all of his projects.
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Posted By: vee @ February 2nd, 2010
Starting yesterday, Jason Limon posted a huge slew of works online in an online gallery that will remain up until the end of February. These small creature paintings with gloss finishes are generally under $200, with some even under $50. A good portion of them have been sold, but if you go quick, you might be able to gather up a couple works for cheap. Click here to view the show.
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Posted By: vee @ January 31st, 2010
There’s a lot of crap on Tumblr. Here’s our weekly update that sorts through the crap to bring you the best of the week. (Click here to add us on Tumblr.) This is a big week for photography, so hopefully you like that!
There was a time when 3-dimensional-crafted shapes were all the rage on the internet and gracing the covers of electronic albums everywhere. For large part, that trend died down due to the fact that the shapes started looking much too artificial; they were unsophisticated polygons with no real textures or moods other than “metallic” or “clean.” Paul Lee has managed to take these polygons, manipulating them in a way that keeps them current.
Photography by Swedish multi-disciplinary artist John Falk Rodén, who runs his own creative company with his partner, Andreas Lewandowski, called Ajja.
Minimalistic photography that will take your breath away, by Thorsten Konrad. Oceans are frequently calming, but this takes that almost to another level.
Buttonmooon weeds through vintage cameras and film to create images like this that are basked in saturated colors. This could quite possibly be the album cover for the latest indie singer-songwriter.
Al Magnus combines photography with manipulation to create that walk the line between fantasy and reality. (And maybe gives a heads up to Wizard Of Oz?)
Gunta Stölzl, German artist. This is a wall hanging from 1931; she was ages ahead of the current hipster trends in textile art and patterning. Ages!
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Posted By: vee @ January 30th, 2010
This is an old piece by Pietari Posti, but I just wanted to share it. In January of 1927, the beautiful silent sci-fi film Metropolis was born. In collaboration with underware.nl artists created modern remakes of their takes on famous movie posters. Here’s Posti’s rendition for Metropolis.
The 6-layered silkscreen print even glows in the dark, and it almost looks like a three-dimensional object! An oldie, but goodie.
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Posted By: vee @ January 27th, 2010
What happens when New Age themes mix with surrealism and whimsy? Inka Essenhigh’s work! This New York artist has exhibited her oil paintings throughout the United States and Europe, and she now has an exhibit on display at 303 Gallery in New York City through February 20th. Here’s just an itty-bitty taste of what’s on display there.
Snowflake (Pink), oil on canvas, 64 x 72 inches
Green Goddess II, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches
Fog, Moss, Lichen, oil on canvas, 64 x 72 inches
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Posted By: vee @ January 24th, 2010
There’s a lot of crap on Tumblr. Here’s our weekly update that sorts through the crap to bring you the best of the week. (Click here to add us on Tumblr.)
Rodney Smith’s elegant vintage photographs. He also has 3,000 pieces of stock photography, browsable by keyword! Amazing!
Mario Wagner fuses grungy textures with collage. This piece is Control the World for Sony Playstation / Vice Magazine.
Polish painter Jacek Yerka’s fantasy worlds are hazardly beautiful.
Jonathan Calugi’s style seems to give illustrations typographic treatment.
David O’Brien’s geometric explosions. What’s even better: the explosion is not just mere geometric shapes; it’s fucking little people! Actually, they’re called memes, and they represent singular ideas, symbols, or practices. You can read more about them on O’Brien’s website here. But see below for details:
Mutant Hands‘ Pea Stag. Sure, animals are played out, but at least this is a little different from your typical animal drawing.
Naoko Ito’s Ubiquitous takes the oft-used theme of urban nature and explores it in a new, spatially-challenging way.
Kathy Liao’s Making Face - Juicy Goodbye (with love) is a huge mixed media on canvas piece, at 70″ x 60″! Holy!
Andre Meca’s Explosions Of Colors And Shapes is pretty much exactly that.
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Posted By: vee @ January 23rd, 2010
I’m tired of boutique card decks that are too lazy to make custom cards for every card and instead only give a little bit of love to face cards. The Black Rock Collective’s new card deck gives artsy fartsy equal-opportunity treatment, creating super slick cards that would seem right at home at urban boutiques everywhere.
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Posted By: vee @ January 22nd, 2010
You’ve probably drawn on styrofoam containers before, or written your name on styrofoam cups a million times, but you’ve probably never done anything like Boey has. What’s more: he creates his cups in a wide array of styles; you would swear that a different individual made all of them, but you’d be wrong.
Tattoo-inspired khünbish.
Jury Duty. According to Boey’s quote on Flickr:
“foam cups shrink under pressure, and they become hard like plastic. thanks to Dave S., an oceanographer
from canada, these cups are able to travel deep down into the artic ocean to become 1/2 the cup they used to be.”
And lastly, check out the stippling on this:
fedor emelianenko, a mixed martial arts fighter.
I should make a mention that his journal is also extremely awesome. You can see it here.
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