Escif’s street art feels so fresh and doesn’t have any of the usual prerequisites for street art; graffiti style lettering, stencils, garish colours. What’s more, many of his creations have a clear sociological, political or moral message that doesn’t come across as either misjudged or sanctimonious.
I don’t know that much about Eric White to be honest, I came upon his work whilst browsing around a while back. I saw an interview with him on Fecal Face. Lovely, detailed and often surreal work, with a touch of old Hollywood glamour.
I’ve admired Maureen Gubia’s work for a few years now, it just seems to resonate with me. I happened across this new piece whilst skimming through the recent uploads via my flickr page. It seems Maureen is accepting commissions for personal portraits made with corel painter x software, A4 sized, 300 ppi for the bargain price of $60 USD. Quality. Treat yourself.
Etienne Chaize’s work is mainly comprised of shiny, almost palpable looking things floating in space and is completely brilliant. If, after perusing Chaize’s work, you want more glistening, retro logos floating in a vacuum there’s the obvious video for Justice’s DVNO but also this video, found via ISO50, which details the painstaking process of creating something similar in the early 80s, before it could all be done relatively easily on a computer.
I think I will always love paintings of sweets and cakes, the only thing I like more are actual sweets and cakes. With titles like Tsuweetnami and Parfait Column I was bound to like Justin Richel’s work. As per usual the rest of his portfolio is just as impressive, despite lacking any depictions of confectionary catastrophes.
These porcelain figures by Jessica Harrison are gloriously sadistic. She does maintain a certain amount of gruesomeness throughout her work so it’s well worth having a look at her site.
Rarely am I this impressed with collage. Gordon Magnin’s portfolio of original and intricate collages are worth a thorough look through.
Not what you expect to see from a handwoven tapestry, Erin M Riley’s work is a very pleasant surprise. Via MOB
Maricor / Maricar have a lot of spectacular work; I particularly love their stitched typography. They do some pretty amazing things with paper too.
Its been difficult for a while now to find a definitive place to view any of Fafi’s work; her website was a bit vague and although her Cool Cats blog was great it didn’t have as much work on there as I would have liked. Now she has a Tumblr that looks like it will become her online portfolio and to make things even better it has some new work on it. Find it here.
It’s not often that workshop equipment is blog worthy but the innovative Dexter concept by Stephan Angoulvant definitely bucks that trend.
Will Cotton is a New York based painter known for his surreal candy landscapes. His paintings explore themes of temptation, gluttony and indulgence. Only one word to describe them. Saccharine.
Next show:
TOUS CANNIBALES AT LA MAISON ROUGE
February 12th – May 15th 2011 Paris, France
Please note some images may be deemed NSFW.
Nick Gentry is a British graduate of Central St Martins and has exhibited in the UK, USA and Europe. As part of a generation that grew up surrounded by floppy disks, VHS tapes, polaroids and cassettes, he is inspired by the sociological impact of a new internet culture.
His portraits use a combination of obsolete media formats, making a comment on waste culture, life cycles and identity. Using old disks as a canvas, these artefacts are combined to create photo-fits and identities that may draw connections to the personal information that is then forever locked down underneath the paint.
Above: NEXT GENERATION
2010 / Mixed paint and used computer disks on wood / 90cm x 110cm / Signed 1 off original
Next Show:
SELFRIDGES SOLO SHOW AND CHARITY AUCTION
Technology Hall, Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, London W1A 1AB
Tuesday 3rd May 2011
This year marks 50 years since the Renault 4 was first manufactured. Originally a utilitarian vehicle, with some ingenious space and money saving design features, it has become a cult classic. Special editions, like the Parisienne for Elle in 1964, have helped it become not only one of the most relevant cars of the 20th Century but one of the coolest.
Françoise Nielly is an artist that hails from the South of France, a region which inspires her work. “I have vivid images of colors, of brightness. Yellow, sunshine, blue, heat, cicadas, pin smell, light… all of that classical imagery of South France is very alive as an experience inside of me. Maybe it is what led me to the use of fluorescent colors in my paintings.” I for one love that it did. Check out her body of work here.
Clark Goolsby is a New York based artist who creates these excellent mixed media/collages. He isn’t just a one trick pony though; his sculptures are great too.
Surreal set designs from the very talented Rhea Thierstein for Tim Walker’s recent shoot for April’s issue of British Vogue.
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