STUFF I LIKE
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Altered Books and Sculptural Artist’s Books by Curt Lund
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Long exposure photography by Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko
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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
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Fashion designer Scott Newkirk’s New York cabin
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Dali by Philippe Halsman
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Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69)
“The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of...
SIMPLY JOYS BY SONIA & MARK WHITESNOW
Sonia and Mark Whitesnow (facebook) are multifaceted artists, who work and live in Russia. They use natural materials as well as modern technologies. They have higher psychology and biology education.
‘SELF PORTRAIT’ BY BOO SAVILLE
Artist Boo Saville - “I have always been interested in images and objects with a dual quality, that both frighten and comfort. I am looking for a residual fragment of something, an event or object that could have held spiritual, religious or scientific importance. I am interested in the universality of these objects, There is a beauty and brutality in these photographs which i am hoping to re-examine”, Saville suggests her response is an imitation of nature, yet translated through her own analysis of the subject and its form.
FACE PAINTED BY DEIDRE BUT-HUSAIM
Artist Deidre But-Husaim born a twin. Lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.
“Popular culture is both the prolific producer and voracious consumer of the beauty myth and its heroes and heroines, who provide creative fodder for Deidre But-Husaim. Her edgy painted portraits of insouciant youths offer a curious combination of knowing innocence. Importantly, But-Husaims adornments are not the ubiquitous stock standard tattoos that currently abound in contemporary culture, but rather elaborate baroque and rococo embellishments of the artists creation, such as exquisite chintzy floral vines and delicate birds.” - Alison Kubler (read)
BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAIT PAINTINGS BY CHARLES BIERK
Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk (facebook / twitter) whose black and white portraits (oil on canvas) verge on photo-realism while they explore the process of their own making. Charles begins with a photograph of a face which then becomes source material for a monolithic, monochromatic portrait. Working on a large scale and using a specific square-by-square method, Charles’ new work is as much about the subject of faces as it is the practice of painting.
LANDSCAPES Photo series are self-portraits
Netherlands, Arnhem-based artist Levi van Veluw (facebook)
Veluw´s photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object.
FARMERS SERIES BY LOUISE TE POELE
Louise te Poele 1984, is a photographer-artist who tries to capture a story from a close angle. For Farmers she took portraits of the inhabitants of her own village, in the Achterhoek. “The series started with the photography of my parents neighbours 50th birthday party.” She picks out unusual characteristics, peculiarities that make up the individual. Acquaintances, strangers, family, casual passers-by; she is looking for the eccentric, the outstanding.
STUNNING CHARCOAL DRAWING BY DOUGLAS MCDOUGALL
Douglas Mcdougall born in Glasgow 1963 , Scotland / lives and works in london, uk. McDougalls process involves laborious, detailed drawing of a photorealistic quality, but is distinguished by the use of scalpel blades, rubbers, and sandpaper to scrape and tear the surface to create highlights and add texture to the paper. Douglas has spent years finely honing his technique, pushing the medium of charcoal on paper to an absolute extreme. From subtle biographical sentiment to the more dark confrontational aspects of human existence, his work evokes a theatre of emotional terrain for the viewer to navigate.
” This work is all about the flesh within the flesh, real life”.
on tumblr: zoomorphix
PENCIL DRAWINGS BY DAMIAN MAY
Self-taught pencil artist Damian May has an amazing talent. Pencil is his main drawing medium but he would also do pieces in pen & ink and pastel. Damian focuses on Portraiture of people and animals and tries to capture the true likeness and fine details of his subjects.
NEW PORTRAITS DRAWN ON VINTAGE ENVELOPES BY MARK POWELL
A London-based artist has taken an innovative approach to recycling by using envelopes as canvasses for his drawing. Mark Powell’s portraits typically focus on elderly subjects, but the artist is capable of capturing a range of forms with only a run-of-the-mill Bic Biro pen.
STUNNING WATERCOLOR PORTRAITS BY CAKTUS & MARIA
Artist Caktus & Maria | facebook| flickr
MARIA CRISTINA SERIES BY SILVIA LOPEZ CHAVEZ
Artist Silvia López Chávez - My work explores humanity’s existential need of filling a void. It searches for intimate connections to self and others, as it engages in conversations about joy, struggle, assimilation, change and growth. I live in Chelsea and continue to paint at my studio at the Boston Center for the Arts.
