04.11.12
It’s time to feel the free spirit of photographer Anabel Navarro as it is delivered by way of beautiful people and sun-dappled washed out settings.
Estela A. Cuadro is an Argentinian artist and illustrator mixing an interpretive subjective style with just enough hint of abstract expressionism to keep things interesting.
04.04.12
‘HOME’ an exhibition by Ian ‘Kid Zoom’ Strange
In October 2011, after three years living in New York, artist Ian Strange [Kid Zoom] returned to Australia to create a major new installation work housed in Cockatoo Island’s prestigious Turbine Hall. The exhibition featured a full-scale reproduction of his childhood home and a film documenting the violent destruction of three Holden commodores. This video documents what resulted:
Installation footage of;
KID ZOOM : HOME Exhibition
IAN STRANGE
Turbine Hall, Cockatoo Island
Sydney, AUSTRALIA – 2011
and Excerpts from;
‘Untitled Film (Destruction of Three Holden Commodores)’
Single Take, 10min 15sec Loop
Digital Camera RED Epic
Ratio: 1:2,35
Photographer Kim Høltermand has released yet another austere and beautiful series of images titled Monochronos. It must take a lot of study to discover and capture such architectual beauty. Excellent work as always.
Ill Studio has launched a new and in many ways even more strange and eccentric portfolio of work. They have noted that they’d like to make a bit of a departure from their older works and move toward the new direction they have taken.
03.28.12
Trendy, trippy and varied are some go-to words to begin describing the highly experimental portfolio of renaissance man Aaron Vergult.
Photographer Daniel Castañeda is a master at capturing a lonely, contemplative, slightly eery yet etherial mood. He tends to lean towards black and white for the purpose of emotional affect.
Psychedelic collage artist and graphic designer Tom Sewell has updated with a few new and extremely trippy projects since I last checked in. He also has some of his work available as prints here if you’d like to have a little something to hang on your wall and scare your friends with (shrooms not included).
03.23.12
“The second in a series of hand painted studies that aim to psychedelically capture the individual styles of influential skateboarders”
Matt Box is responsible for this great little project and he’s looking for some new people to collaborate/create with/for: matthew-box@live.co.uk
03.21.12
Ruin is ‘an animated short set in a post-apocalyptic universe’ created by aptly named OddBall Animation.
All I can tell you about Smithe is that it appears he is Mexican and he loves psychedelia. Aside from that his work should speak for itself.
They say you need to know how to do ‘everything’ these days to fit into the current creative job market, especially on a global scale. Whether or not you actually believe or buy into that bullshit is probably left to your own personal experience. Talent finds a way to shine regardless of the medium. Taking all of that into account, Sebastian Onufszak is a creative of the times. He practically can do everything and is pretty damn good at all of it too. The even crazier thing is that he keeps getting better at just about everything he is doing and you can see that in his updated portfolio.
03.19.12
Illustrator Sam Wolfe Connelly has recently updated his website with more of his soft, contemporary pop-inspired illustration work that looks like it makes it to paper before it’s taken into the computer. He’s honing his craft and it shows in his recent work. Inspiring stuff.
03.06.12
Alright, this latest update to the Flickrfolio of illustrator Douglas Bcicleta has totally solidified my fandom. His work just kicks ass plain and simple. I’m inspired and ready to put some boobs back into my illustration work.
Adam Batchelor and Christopher Joyner have created an online gallery currently based in the east of England called W.E.L.C.O.M.E. There is some interesting work being represented so far and the venture looks promising considering the cache of talent. The ‘sole purpose’ of the gallery is in providing a new and innovative space for young upcoming artists to showcase and sell print editions of their work.
02.28.12
Robert Hardgrave A.K.A. Farmer Bob has kept at it and is still updating with his unique brand of abstract expressionism. That’s probably not the right term for what he does but it will at least start the conversation in describing his work.
Thumbtack Press has updated with a new format and increased the number of artists in their cache. You can now purchase affordable prints from a huge group of artists inluding Heiko Mueller, Matthew Woodson and Michael Sieben.
01.25.12
Jose Mertz is an artist and illustrator based out of Miami Florida. It’s a fitting setting for Mertz as his work is a total mashup of cultural influences that somehow all settles on some startlingly memorable imagery.
