MIHOKO OGAKI’S MILKY WAY SCULPTURES
Japanese artist Mihoko Ogaki has combined the night sky with the body in these sculptures constructed from plastic and embedded with LEDs. The light shines out through thousands of tiny holes and illuminates the walls surrounding the sculpture but when they are placed in bright room, the bodies appear to be suffering and dying.
PEDRO MARZORATI’S BLUE MEN
Argentinian artist Pedro Marzorati recently installed a climate-change focused sculpture in Montsouris Park, Paris. The piece, which consists of bright-blue humans emerging from, or sinking into, a pond. He created the piece for the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), a climate conference in Paris, which aims to reach international agreements surrounding climate change policy. Specifically, […]
STATUE OF LOVE
The Statue of Love sculpture inspired by love story of “Ali and Nino” Created by Georgian artist Tamar Kvesitadze. The story is similar to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and tells of an Azerbaijani youth who falls in love with a Georgian princess but dies defending his country. The 7 ton statues start their motion […]
DESTROYING THE WEAK by CLEON PETERSON X CASE STUDYO
We just had a good week with Cleon; his shirt sold out in our webstore about as soon as we announced it. This probably will be the case with Cleon’s new sculpture edition with Case Studyo. “Destroying the Weak” features two porcelain figures in battle, made in an edition of 20 with 4 APs, standing […]
FLOOR PLANS OF FAMOUS TELEVISION SHOWS
Spanish-based interior designer Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde may spend too much time watching sitcoms but it allowed him to create incredibly detailed floor plans (including furnishing details) of households from The Simpsons, Dexter, Friends, Seinfeld, and many others.
YUNG JAKE’S CELEBRITY PORTRAITS PAINTED WITH EMOJIS
Emojis, fast becoming a language of their own can now easily be used for painting through the website emoji.ink. Using this site, rapper Yung Jake has created a series of stunning (or perhaps eerily uncanny) portraits of celebrities on his tumblr. The portraits have garnered some press because they’re so accurate, but the rapper says […]
JENNIFER ANGUS GLUES BUGS TO THE WALLS
As one of nine artists installing artwork in the Renwick gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Jennifer Angus has created intricate wall-paper-like patterns with insects—called “The Midnight Garden.” All of the insects were gathered worldwide using ecologically sustainable methods, as Angus has done for several past projects. She reuses the insects from project to […]
“IN DREAMS” BY PETROS KOUBLIS
Petros Koublis was born in 1981 and is based in both New York and Athens. His relationship with photography started in 2000, after having dedicated some years in painting. He studied photography in Athens and participated in a series of seminars on the history of photography, being mostly developing his style through a constant personal […]
JOE IURATO “EVERYTHING BUT THE WHOLE STORY”
This past week Station 16 Gallery in Montreal opened Everything but the Whole Story, a solo show featuring Joe Iurato. Based on photography, JoeIurato creates site-specific wooden cut-outs that reflect upon his personal experiences. The tiny black and white figures interact with their environment in often extravagant manners, from scaling a skyscraper, to dangling from a bridge, to […]
DREW MERRITT “REQUIEM”
“Requium” is a body of work with diverse thoughts and emotions expressed in each painting; meant to mirror life and it’s individualized complexities. This is also represented in pieces that feature the subject characterized more than once. Due to my discomfort with being categorized as “a pretty girl artist” most of the content is attractive […]
PICTURE BOOK: MATT WEBER
The following is an excerpt from the November, 2015 issue of Juxtapoz Magazine, on sale now. There is a long tradition of documenting urban renewal through painting, film and photography, recording the dynamics, as well as a special moment in a particular time. While Times Square now seems to be consumer central, it was once […]
Amozad, Aliha & Honargardi on a same page
Mohammad Reza Amouzad, born in 1975, has got his B.A. in painting and his M.A. in graphic design, also graduated from Calligraphy Association. Learning calligraphy, educating in painting and graphic design, experience of sculpting and research activities, has made his artwork different from artists of his generation, but his passion for calligraphy has made the […]
Aliha Gallery’s opening
Aliha Gallery’s opening ceremony has been held on 9th Oct. 2015. The Gallery’s initiative concept has been formed around the notion of interaction. With this notion, the Gallery’s priority is creating a coherent network of talented and creative artists from master to amateur spectrum. Therefore new talents along with the originality of masters artworks, have […]
PORTALS PROJECT OPENS GATEWAY FROM SF TO TEHRAN
San Francisco will soon be home to the latest gateway in the Portals Project, a public art project curated by Shared_Studios that uses design and technology to connect strangers and artists across the globe. So what exactly is a portal? A portal is a retrofitted shipping container painted gold and immersed with audio and visual […]
THE NEW WORLD TRANSPARENT SPECIMENS
SHINSEKAI’S ‘THE NEW WORLD TRANSPARENT SPECIMENS’ Shinsekai’s The New World Transparent Specimens are tiny, usually aquatic life forms like fish and seahorses that are put through a process of chemical replacement of the proteins and dyeing of the bones. The result is a transparent creature that glows in eerie vibrant colors. The creatures are […]
