STUFF I LIKE
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fairy tale
oil and others on canvas
60x80cm
2013
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“Social Fabric”, 2013
By: KAI KORSMO….
*Just happened to stop by the senior thesis exhibition for some of the students from The ...
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Various tape installations by Megan Geckler
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Nikos Gyftakis
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AMAZING SERIES OF ARTWORK BY MICHAEL REEDY
Michael Reedy was born in Galesburg, Illinois. He received a BFA in Drawing from North Central College, a MFA in Painting from Northern Illinois University. He began teaching at EMU in 2005. Portraiture is central to his artistic studies and has been for the past twelve years, he says. Reedy identifies a particular interest in depictions of the human body that fall outside the canon of art history, such as cartooning and medical illustration.
ARTIST ANDY DIXON
Canada, Vancouver-based artist Andy Dixon (facebook) - Growing up involved in Vancouver’s punk music scene, I was moved by the energy and urgency in the music and drawn to the idea that the impulse of expression was valued above technical skill. Examining how I defined an artist’s skill-set in punk culture, I began developing an alternative and more poetic set of criteria for deciding what was ‘good’. The emotional response of the audience became my barometer, which I decided was not necessarily tied to traditional measures of an artist’s technical proficiency. I naturally carried this forward into my current work.
- Fighting Tigers
- Dog With Kill
- Venus #2
- Venus #1
- Matador
HORIZON FIELD HAMBURG, DEICHTORHALLEN, GERMANY
(27 April - 16 September 2012)
Sculptor Antony Gormley - “This entire project could be seen as the translation of a vast painting into a literal sounding board for the spirit and consciousness of the viewer. There is no subject to this work other than the people who participate in and on it.”
HORIZON FIELD HAMBURG will provoke an experience of re-orientation and re-connection with walking, feeling, hearing and seeing.
Visitors to Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen will be confronted by a space that is almost 4,000 sq. m. in size, nearly 19 meters high and virtually empty. Here, a vast, black, reflective structure will float 7.5 meters above the floor, inviting adventure. The suspended, slightly oscillating platform exploits the structural potential and architectural context of the Deichtorhallen building, taking visitors into a new spatiotemporal matrix.
SUB-MARGE
Sao Paulo, Brazil-based Artist Ebbëto Grafx
By its own physical and psychological nature, the human being is secluded. It enters the world alone, creates and walks its path across it, till, alone, it leaves it.
As Orson Welles once said - “We`re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we`re not alone.“
SUB-merge intends to pass this ontological state to the spectator; putting him face-to-face with himself, making him “feel the solitude”, which is intrinsic to the human being. The “Submersion” of the individual within himself; the moment where the “Self” is found in it’s absolute wholeness.
SEBASTIAN MARTINEZ FADIC
A beautiful hyper-realistic painting by Artist Sebastian Martinez Fadic, based in Santiago de Chile
ARTIST WYATT MILLS
- The Unveiling
- Invanity
- The Necessities, The Ordinariness, and The Dream
Wyatt Mills a Los Angeles born, New York based artist began painting not for the love of the practice, but for the romance of a woman. The woman soon became an after thought as Mills was consumed with his work. Heavily influenced by both painting and photography, he looked to Diane Arbus and Egon Schiele for their portrayal of the human figure as subject matter. As he studied at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, he honed his execution and thought provoking subject matter. Confrontation and first person environments are common within his work. His pieces bring viewers into another mindset, allowing them to contemplate and debate with an inner dialogue about what social boundaries they find to be hideous, captivating, offensive or attractive, in hopes that it will allow the viewers to walk away with a loss of social reservation and expansion of their own mindset.
Collectif 33% is an artistic collective composed by Cid (Cédric PHILIPPI), Dardelet (Philippe DARDELET) and Vébé (Thibaut van BOXTEL). - We always create together, mixing our different styles on various supports (canvas, paper, skateboard, wood,…) using multiple tools (pencils, markers, acrylics, collages,…).
- dernière danse (last dance)
- Pampadam
GUN
New York - based Artist LJ Lindhurst
“I generally work from original photographs* of subjects that I find visually appealing. I like to explore the colors and textures of objects at a macro level. My paintings typically feature close-up views of tiny objects; I am particularly drawn to toys, candies, and other often-overlooked detritus of our popular culture. I find that when you isolate and magnify small details from these otherwise insignificant objects, they reveal more than just their hidden beauty; the mere act of enlarging these items to thousands of times their natural size and rendering the detail in paint creates a distinctly absurd sense of comedy”. - LJ Lindhurst
NEW ARTWORK OF GERARD STRICHER
Gerard Stricher was born in 1948 to a family of artists in Sarrebourg, France. As a child he was already dreaming of becoming a painter and drew prodigiously. Self-taught, he immersed in the café society of painters, attended gallery openings , and was encouraged by sales but ultimately decided to enter industry. He became a highly regarded international manager whose carcer and travels led him become a ”World Citizen ”. Widening his horizon, observing new people, different landscapes, and other realities, which gradually became stratified in his unconscious to reappear later in his painting. He acquired and old mill in the French Vexin, established his studio where he worked feverishly.
Gerard Stricher solo show in Houston, TX | Laura Rathe Gallery starting the 20th October untill the 20th November
- “La Chambre des songes” (Mixed medias on paper /61x46 cm / 2012)
- “My Garden” (Mixed ledias on paper / 39x30 cm / 2012)
- “Le Mauvais Génie” (Mixed medias on paper / 64x46 cm / 2012)
- “Ô Méditerrannée” (Mixed medias on paper / 61x46 cm / 2012)
- “Neptune on his Way…” (Mixed medias on paper / 46x61 cm / 2012)
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” - Leonardo da Vinci
Thank you very much Stricher Gerard!
OXIDOS
Buenos Aires, Argentina - based Artist Leandro Klapputh. His series of paintings “Oxidos” tribute to all Tattoo Artists
ARTIST GUIM TIÓ
“The artist offers “pictographic” portraits in some sort of pantheon of “avatars”, those famous virtual replicas from the various social networks in which friendships, preferences, desires and memories are intertwined. These avatars are a reflection of the users’ personal identities, that they spread on the net in an overt and shameless way. Guim Tió observes this “digital territory” while demonstrating some corrosive irony and reveals, at the same time, the fragility and ambiguity of human condition, unique to our time, that is to assert oneself through image instead of content.” - Original text of Massimo Cova
ARTIST KEVIN CHAMPENY
New York artist Kevin Champeny merges aspects of painting, sculpture and mosaics with his large-scale images of skulls, flowers, and other objects.
- What Remains (5’ wide x 4’ tall x 1” deep / 35,000+ hand cast urethane flowers)
- A Rose By Any Other Name (51” long x 41” tall x 1.5” deep / 15,000+ individually hand cast urethane pieces of candy / 75 pounds)
- HotWheels (9’ wide x 4’tall x 3” deep / 4400 hot wheels / 550 pounds)
[via thisiscolossal] Artist on tumblr: kchampeny
NEW COLORFUL PORTRAITS BY FRANÇOISE NIELLY
Françoise Nielly’s painting is expressive, exhibiting a brute force, a fascinating vital energy. Oil and knife combine tsculpt her images from a material that is , at the same time, biting and incisive, charnel and sensual. Whether she paints the human body or portraits, the artist takes a risk : her painting is sexual, her colors free, exuberant, surprising, even explosive, the cut of her knife incisive, her color pallet dazzling.
Artist Leigh Wen
my paintings express my personal and cultural histories. having grown up on the island of taiwan, i have a deep affinity for the elemental power of water and the forces of nature. as a chinese now living in america, i feel the ebb and flow of competing cultures. the ancient philosophies of my homeland, which teach self-discipline and selflessness, collide and mingle with western notions of ego, alienation, and desire. - Leigh Wen-Cheng
- Luminary (oil on canvas)
- Air Mural (oil on canvas)
- Silver Moon Light (Oil on Canvas)
