DANIEL MUÑOZ “TRENCHES AND OTHER CONTRACEPTIVES”
One of the most talented and interesting contemporary Spanish artists, Daniel Muñoz, also known as “SAN,” excels in fine art and illustration as well as a muralist and street artist. Earlier this year, Muñoz completed an expansive illustration on the floor of an exhibition space at CEART in Madrid. Based on personal experiences and memories, the images form a […]
SELFISH
SELFISH is a multi-medium group exhibition that focuses on the existential significance of self-portraiture and the role it plays in an artist’s creative process. Self-portraiture is sometimes viewed as a casually vainglorious practice⎯the conceptual stroking of the artist’s ego, a pretentious selfie. This couldn’t be any more further from the truth. The self-portrait is a […]
NICK GEORGIOU
He installs his work in the urban environment—currently Tucson, though Georgiou hails from New York. Georgiou’s materials are all found and re-used. He relies on newspapers he finds on the street and discarded books. His work, he says, is a “comment on the regeneration of the printed word in contemporary society.”
BALLOON ANIMA
Jason Freeny has wowed us before with his toy series articulating the anatomical insides of Micky, Hello Kitty, Yoshi and other beloved cartoons. Now he’s taken on a balloon animals, creating transparent plastic shells that mimic the sausage-like shapes of a twisted (no pun intended) dog. He’s also created an aesthetically similar take on a […]
JOE BROOK: DEFINING A DISTANCE
Joe Brook grew up skateboarding in Detroit and moved to San Francisco at the end of high school with just $500, a duffel bag, and a skateboard. Soon after arriving, he moved into 824 Hyde St. which what was to become an unofficial San Francisco skate hostel. Numerous icons of the skateboarding world passed through […]
Understanding Value and Tone for Better Painting
Did you know that good drawing and rendering skills will help give you a solid foundation in tone, otherwise known as value? Value is how light or darkness of a color. For example: If you took a black and white photograph of your painting, the shades of grey would be the different values or tones within […]
Understanding Atmospheric Perspective In Art – sec1
Like many subjects in art, landscape paintings can tell a story, taking the viewer to a different place and time. Whether the place is real or imaginary, it should be convincing, making us feel as though it perhaps could exist, even if only within our minds. Putting the rules of perspective into good use can […]
SILENCE/SHAPES
The Italian artist Filippo Minelli is a master of contrasts. With his photography project he started in 2009, the artist, who inspired by political demonstrations, managed to create colourful and vibrant smoke-bombs by igniting them within Romantic landscapes. Capturing the events on camera, he transforms this traditionally violent act into a vision of tranquillity. The purpose of […]
Aesthetica Art Prize Call Mansoureh Pakzad 2016
Attracting thousands of entries from all over the world across a range of media, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of art from across the globe, and is now open for entries. It offers both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience, and further their engagement with […]
EXQUISITE MACHINES OF WOOD AND PAPER
In an interview with This is Colossal, Agdag said, “Aesthetically, the driving force behind the creation of works I make stem from a need to see and imagine objects, machines and environments in a way I’d like to see them, to imagine how I think they work and expose their inner workings. All too often, […]
THE PULP FICTION
THE PULP FICTION OF MICHAEL CARSON With a style that reminds us a little of the Radiohead’s “Jigsaws Falling Into Place,” Michael Carson makes a night out seem like a smokey, dreamy experience. We saw these works onEK last week, and just loved the mood; a bit of darkness, still-life, club life, and late night life.
ANIMUS CHRYSALIS MORTIS
For this body of work I was inspired by the surrealist and deeply symbolic films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jungian archetypes, and Greek mythology. I created a personal language of symbols, then made a card set and selected at random a different set for each new painting. This method taps into the elements of subconscious influence […]
ROLLING THROUGH THE SHADOWS
“I’m super honored to be a part of the Leica Gallery LA show, and excited to see my friends’ images together – multi-generations of skateboard photographers condensed into one amazing exhibit,” said Brook, who has traveled the world on skateboarding teams, Leica forever in hand. “Thomas [Campbell] and Tobin [Yelland] were big influences on me […]
Elizaveta Porodina
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