Los Angeles artist, Joseph Powers Bowman, submitted some pieces to us which are making me eyeballs tingle! Bowman crafts them slightly like one might create a tessellation, which contributes to their wildly disorienting qualities. All of these pieces below begin with simple freehand line drawings, which are then photocopied, cut out, and collaged into these mesmerizing creations which are part nature and part manmade.

You would never think such a method would make such a huge difference in the result, but apparently, you’d be wrong! Go on, catch a dizzy spell.

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Collages are a dime a dozen these days, with both digital collages and paper collages being artforms with teeny tiny learning curves. It seems that almost anyone can create a collage that looks half-decent; the tricky part lies in creating collages which harbor a distinctive style that helps them stand out from the rest.

L.A.-based artist Sonny Kay is perhaps best-known for his affiliation with world-class rockstars, The Mars Volta. Kay designs their graphics entirely and also serves as the Creative Director for Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Productions, the record label run by the vocalist of The Mars Volta. But album covers and music-related materials aside, Kay has a rich collection of semi-real digital collages few have seen. His collages are a hodge-podge of found images, sliced and diced together to create, in many cases, realities which could very well be plausible in another time and another place.

Through December 24th (yes, plenty of time for Christmas), you can go online and buy works from Bherd’s Take Five show. Buy 2 or more pieces and get 5% off your purchase. Buy 5or more pieces and get entered to win a custom 1-off board by Signal Snowboards. Seriously. Some of these are a good deal, and there are also other pieces by some of our favorites, including Chris Sheridan and Kate Protage.

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Here are some works by CASH, Marty Gordon, and Kellie Talbot I am definitely feeling.

CASH

Marty Gordon

kellie talbot

And a colorful installation:

In a note to us, UK artist Matt Burden said that he’s often gets “labelled with things like dark, weird, violent, perverse”. But only elderly folk, babies, and some people who can only be described as chumps would probably be scared off by Burden’s art. While super gritty at times, they’re always excellently composed, and frankly, they’re dark in a way that’s not so much scary as it is just downright surrealist cool. Okay, yeah, it’s true, there’s a lot of nude bodies and private parts, too, but you’re a big kid. You’ll manage, right?

This post is actually going to feature two different series of works by Luis Dourado, Famous Are Dreaming and Into Space. But in my book, they belong together, dammit. The famous belong to the spacey dreams, so I’m going to sort them accordingly (and see if you can identify the famous faces — or non-faces).

Robert Hardgrave is a REDEFINE favorite, so I just wanted to show you a pretty interesting thing he’s done with his leftover canvas scraps. He’s made a suit, of almost Hazmat proportions! I can’t imagine it smells particularly lovely, but it’s certainly a good way to reuse and recycle. The suit was created for one of Hardgrave’s upcoming shows, at the David B Smith Gallery in Denver. The show begins in December.

Photograph by Dan Carrillo!