Artists I'm Loving

remediosthebeauty: Simply so grotesquely...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:50:21 -0400

Simply so grotesquely amazing.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Cao Hui. Visual Temperature - Sofa, 2008. Mixed material of resin, fibre, etc, 98 x 106 x 108 cm.

darksilenceinsuburbia: Nuala...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:25:55 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Nuala O’Donovan.

http://www.nualaodonovan.com/

smokeandsong: likeafieldmouse: Tim Knowles - Tree...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:16:08 -0500

smokeandsong:

likeafieldmouse:

Tim Knowles - Tree Drawings (2006)

Artist’s statement:

“A series of drawings produced using drawing implements attached to the tips of tree branches, the wind’s effects on the tree recorded on paper.

Like signatures each drawing reveals the different qualities and characteristics of each tree.”

devidsketchbook: HANGARBICOCCA BY THOMAS SARACENO Argentinian...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:47:51 -0500

Artist Tomas Saraceno | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Artist Tomas Saraceno | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Artist Tomas Saraceno | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Artist Tomas Saraceno | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Artist Tomas Saraceno | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

devidsketchbook:

HANGARBICOCCA BY THOMAS SARACENO

Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno (born 1973) - installation view at HangarBicocca, Milan. (previously)

For On Space Time Foam, his new installation at the HangarBicocca, Saraceno conceived a large transparent membrane (which he amusingly calls la lasagna) that visitors can get into. Folded in three layers, it is suspended at 25-metres above the ground, providing a radical bodily experience. (An interview from Milan by Filipa Ramos)

showslow: Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:23:00 -0500

showslow:

Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light

Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls.

staceythinx: Lives of Grass by Mathilde Roussel Roussel on her...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:26:05 -0400

staceythinx:

Lives of Grass by Mathilde Roussel

Roussel on her work:

Lives of Grass sculptures show the effects of transformation of the material as a metaphor of the transformation of the body. Time sculpts the forms, makes them change and then decay. The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. These sculptures strive to show that food, it’s origin, it’s transport, has an impact on us beyond it’s taste. The power inside it affects every organ of our body. Observing nature and being aware of what and how we eat might make us more sensitive to food cycles in the world - of abundance, of famine - and allows us to be physically, intellectually and spiritually connected to a global reality.

jessiceredwards: Emil Alzamora. Obsessed.

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:45:10 -0400

jessiceredwards:

Emil Alzamora. Obsessed.

adoptpets: Great photos right? Wrong! They are drawings! The...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:50:47 -0400

adoptpets:

Great photos right? Wrong! They are drawings! The hyperrealistic drawings that look so good you could mistake them for photographs

The first time you see Dirk Dzimirsky’s hyperrealistic drawings, you’re convinced they’re black and white photographs.
But on closer inspection, you realise they are just the work of a very talented artist and his pens and pencils.

Using photos just for inspiration, he sets up basic proportions and then draws layer upon layer until he creates his incredibly realistic portraits.

‘Personally, I view the practice of drawing as reminiscent of scratching on a surface to observe what’s hidden underneath, where as the nature of painting projects more the inverse, covering and hiding details and forms that might have contributed to a sensuality of a work.

The artist, whose work has been displayed in galleries across London, Germany and America, says despit ehis hyperrealistic results, he does not want to simply copy a photograph.

‘I use photos as references for my drawings but I am not after a perfect reproduction at all. I use a photo very loosely once the proportions are established.

‘I usually work as if I were drawing from a live model actually.’

adoptpets: This guy is amazing! Everyone should know his name because with these drawing he has just proven he is a master. Then there’s me, who can’t even draw a straight line with a ruler.

Art Marvels: Warped Objects

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:48:20 -0400

Art Marvels: Warped Objects:

artmarvels:

Above: “Dining Table” - Materials: wood

Above: “Knot” - Materials: wood, foam, cotton

Above: “It’s No Picnic Table” - Location: Bernis Center for Contemporary Arts - Materials: wood

Above: “Hinged Tree” - Materials: maple tree

Having received a BFA from Alfred University…

Claire Morgan’s Crazy Installations Use Weird Materials Like...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:15:07 -0400

Claire Morgan’s Crazy Installations Use Weird Materials Like Taxidermy and Dandelion Seeds
Aaron Berger, beautifuldecay.com

…My attention has been drawn to the cheap distractions we choose to place in our immediate vicinity, with which to screen us from the overwhelming facts: that we are nothing; that our only certainty as individuals is a life, of…

vertovvertov: Do Ho Suh, Cause and Effect: A Vortex of Little...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:18:07 -0400

vertovvertov:

Do Ho Suh, Cause and Effect: A Vortex of Little Orange Men, 2007

Check out his work curated by the Lehmann Maupin Museum as well.

design-beats: Sit inside or outside the soft and tranquil wool...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:06:54 -0400

design-beats:

Sit inside or outside the soft and tranquil wool felt Hush, designed by Freyja Sewell. Converts from an easy chair to a womb-like sleeping pod.

mikaelchoe: Ostrich by Kawamura Ganjavian OSTRICH offers a...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:22:51 -0400

mikaelchoe:

Ostrich

by Kawamura Ganjavian

OSTRICH offers a micro environment in which to take a warm and comfortable power nap at ease. It is neither a pillow nor a cushion, nor a bed, nor a garment, but a bit of each at the same time. Its soothing cave-like interior shelters and isolates our head and hands (mind, senses and body) for a few minutes, without needing to leave our desk.

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Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:15:37 -0400

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staceythinx: Beauty isn’t easy. Ask any peacock who has to lug...

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:38:57 -0400

staceythinx:

Beauty isn’t easy. Ask any peacock who has to lug around all that heavy and extravagant plumage. In Laurel Roth’s series Peacocks, their plumage is borrowed from our own human adornments.

About the work:

These peacocks borrow human mating plumage, anthropomorphically showcasing our adaptations and natural orders as their own. They are made of fake fingernails, barrettes, nail polish, false eyelashes, and jewelry to represent the choices involved in biological processes that are unique to humankind.

clubhaus: Together We Are Greater, an origami sculpture by...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:28:42 -0400

clubhaus:

Together We Are Greater, an origami sculpture by British artist Jacqui Symons, is a delicate web of 2,500 folded paper boxes. Made entirely of recycled, used, or throwaway paper, the installation hangs suspended as a gently undulating color spectrum, a quiet reminder from Symons of the planet’s ecological fragility.

- Maggie

artsquare: Multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:42:47 -0400

artsquare:

Multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer.

So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.

mikaelchoe: Recycled Plastic Bottles Partially Filled with...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:35:09 -0400

mikaelchoe:

Recycled Plastic Bottles Partially Filled with Colored Water Used to Create a Parking Canopy

by Designer Garth Britzman of Lincoln, Nebraska

Photo

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:33:17 -0400

thisiscolossal: Lisbon-born sculptor David Oliveira creates...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:44:30 -0400

thisiscolossal:

Lisbon-born sculptor David Oliveira creates delicate figurative sculptures using wire that’s formed to look like manically drawn ink sketches on top of photographs. Some pieces are even hung by invisible filament creating the illusion of hovering in place. See much more of his work on his website and Facebook. If you like these also check out the work of Gavin Worth. (via my modern met)