Just a quick note showing you what Matt W. Moore is going to be doing soon, cause I think it’s going to be so godamn cool… these shapes are just already so aesthetically pleasing.

In his words:

Super excited to begin work on this new series of 3D Geo-Chunks. The project is a collaboration with my great friend Erik Flanagan. I commissioned him to actualize a fleet of wooden blocks in the style of my Crystals & Lasers and Parallel Universe canvas paintings.

What’s not to love about these incredible sculptures by AJ Fosik? Channeling a combination of folk art and Tibetan religious imagery, Fosik creates some very imposing characters out of hand cut and hand varnished plywood. If you happen to be in the bay area (like I am right now! yay!), check out his show at Guerrero Gallery.

No.Fest is this weekend in Portland, and it begins Friday, the 25th at 7:00pm and Saturday the 26th at 10:00am! With 46 shows in 14 hours, the festival will be a cornucopia of art, music, and performance-based events for everyone. Originally a noise festival, No.Fest is now a festival celebrating experimental art, and Klein & Woolley (David Klein and Nick Woolley) will be just be two of the artists showing there. Here are their amazing acrylic and cut wood pieces, which are way cheaper than you’d expect for how awesome and probably labor-intensive they are:

Here’s a super remarkable lightbox, too:

There’s been some hype about these limited edition yo-yo’s, strangely enough, and today, a new one comes out! Whose? Doktor A‘s! Yo-yo’s are limited to 45 pieces, with a limit of two per person (not that you couldn’t get your mom and sister and brother and best friend and cousin to buy them all up if you were evil enough). $15 each.

Check out the past ones:

Chris Ryniak

Brian Morris

Jason Limon

There’s only 10 days left to this epic show at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco, but if you haven’t scoped out Philly-based artist AJ Fosik‘s new works yet, get over to White Walls right away!!! Fosik offers a brand new rendition of classic wall-mounted animal heads using thin sheets of cut wood, nails, and paint. The show, entitled Aliens In Our Midst, features mythical beasts crafted in a way that makes them reminiscent of ’80s neon color palettes meets Eastern architectural ornamentation. See more of his recent work on his Flickr or MySpace.

www.whitewallssf.com
www.myspace.com/aaaajaaaay
www.flickr.com/photos/36098170@N06/

Easiest my favorite piece from the deYoung Museum is John Cederquist‘s Conservation Chair, created in 1998. This thing was absolutely mind-blowing, and it was definitely interesting to hear an intelligent 8 year old girl (who was later reprimanded by her mother for asking what a “rave” was) give her analysis about the great perspective used in the chair.

Made from Baltic birch plywood, Sitka spruce, maple, epoxy resin, oil-based inks, and aniline dye. (Some of the material list is incomplete — apologies on that.)

This chair made such a great impression on me that I had to see more of Cederquist’s work, and I am NOT disappointed. My mind is completely and utterly blown by this man’s skills in using unique shapes and careful pigmentation to create a sense of movement on otherwise flat surfaces. AMAZING. (Those pipes in the photo above are NOT round, my friends. They are flat pieces of wood painted to look round.)

Visit his website at johncederquist.com to see more of his mind-blowing work. We didn’t get permission to post the images, or we would. But. GO. It will not disappoint.