If you are looking for a way to celebrate Independence Day tonight you can head down to the Fabric Lab and the Shoppe to take in some local art and music with some good people at the East Colfax Artwalk. It is guaranteed to be a good time and my friends behind the Fabric Lab are some of the nicest people I know here in Denver and believe very much in our local art scene. The party kicks off at 6pm and will go until 10pm.
Happy 4th.
Illustrator/artist Jason Asato emailed to let me know he has put up a series of 8.5 x 11 inch prints for sale entitled, ‘Ridonkulous‘. The prints are high quality and very reasonably priced. Asato has a pretty unique sense of humor that shines through his work and website.
This was in my email inbox this morning:
“Axtor Disney was an american cartoonist, illustrator, musician, and magician. Elder brother of Walter E. and Roy O. Disney, he along with his brothers founded The Walt Disney Company in 1923.
After many heated and sometimes violent discussions, mostly due to his very peculiar and strange work methods, and especially because of his children illustrations which can only be described as ‘queer’, he was fired from his own company and expelled from the core of the Disney family itself, situation that made him change his very own last name from Disney to “Majesto” His brothers made sure to wipe each and every piece of work that could credit his existence, burning all his sketches and his macabre collection of deformed animals.
Secluded in the darkness and mentally supressed, Axtor decides to give birth to a new company named “Espeluzland” in order to compete with the overly friendly and fantastic world of his new enemies, the Disney brothers.”
It was just too weird not to post.
Sculptor AJ Fosik is currently exhibiting at the White Walls Gallery in San Francisco until July 10th. His psychedelic sculptures are really unusual and constructed sometimes from found objects and wood tiles. He had a studio here in Denver briefly at the Andenken gallery that I took over for a short time after he moved to Philadelphia. He left behind a bunch of really cool old boom boxes and some choice tapes that I ended up taking with me when I left the studio. I still have the boom boxes in my office at Cactus.
If you can make it to White Walls, stop by to check out his work. It isn’t really like much of anything else that is out in the so-called ‘lowbrow’ art scend and definitely leaves an impression on the viewer.
Elna Frederick has some really unusual javascript art up to play with. It’s not often you see something like this and whether you like it or not, it’s an interesting idea to generate interactive art via javascript.
Yes, the work of Eric Yahnker is undeniably strange. This much is true. After the initial weird out has happened it begins to sink in that works like the pieces shown above were actually created in graphite. That’s right, they were drawn. When that realization occurs, it’s hard not to deny some keen talent and a really amazing eye.
There are some real treats in the Flickr-folio of French artist Amose, who isn’t afraid to take his work to the streets.
There are some strange and unusual new collages involving found imagery for 2009 in the portfolio of Valero Doval.
Jim Gaylord is an oil painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His paintings use light, motion and color in the most unusual way by recalling something familiar but putting that familiarity into a spinning, blurring and reflecting tornado.
Artist/Sculptor Xavier Veilhan has updated with more of his unique and amazing work including this sculptural piece, entitled Sophie that was created for the restaurant Le Germain. The work is so large that it starts at the ground floor and peaks through to the second floor. Its installation art that no doubt must be experienced to be appreciated in it’s entirety.
I have been following Tessar Lo for a while now, back since my Design Is Kinky days. His work is just so dreamy and lyrical, it transports you into another world. His latest work is even better and the colors and imagery are just beautiful. The painting of the boy floating above the cityscape is something I have envisioned in my own dreams many times over and to see it painted makes me wonder about the universal mind. Keep an eye on Lo, he is the real deal.
You really have to appreciate the eye for spotting just the right retro/vintage imagery to create these undeniably cool photo-collage mashups. You can see the entire set in the Flickr-folio of Nick Blakeman (who really needs to make some prints of these by the way).
I stumbled across screenprinting pop-culture artist Matt Dye today and had to immediately and impulsively buy one of his prints (the one with Obama and the 357 Magnum). Awesome. It’s rare that I buy art, as much as I try to do to support it, simply because I have very little money but I just had to have that poster. Some of his test prints are really really cool as well. I love the Warhol prints and the Bowie prints. The color work and layering are beautiful. Some might argue that this work isn’t all together original but I think it is meant to be a tongue and cheek jab at pop art. It is a really attractive jab though, enough that it validates itself as its own little fascimile of pop art sarcasm.
I have seen the paintings of Tomokazu Matsuyama before in various art publications, but I haven’t checked his website or looked at his work in a long time. Since I last saw his work he has developed his style and subject matter extensively and he has really grown. I really love the contemporary clash with traditional Japanese subject matter happening in his paintings. His new work is beautiful and his recent exhibitions look amazing.
Sarah Spitler crafts psychedelic landscapes out of artfully construed paint-splatters and drips. The end result is a melting space of beautiful colors supplemented by happenstance details.
The solo show for Florentijn Hofman at Galerie West in The Hague (The Netherlands) is entitled Dushi. The artist created gigantic stuffed animals to force the viewer to reconsider their feeling and function. Personally, I want to just run and jump on one of them and throw it’s arm over myself and feel like a small child again.
There are some really beautiful renderings happening at Gaia Street Art. The work off the street and on the street are equally as good and interesting.
