GOTHIC PORTRAITS AND STILL LIFE
Her work is dark, and she finds her inspiration in “the turmoil that is so often a part of the mortal experience.” She often creates narrative in her paintings, but is also drawn to the purely aesthetic. Rachel Bess makes small, detailed oil paintings using classical techniques, but portraying the gothic and dark. Her paintings […]
STREET LIFE
Martin Wong, whose visionary paintings of the 1980s capture the tragic lows and vibrant highs of life on New York’s decaying Lower East Side, received his first and, until now, only retrospective in 1998, at the New Museum, as he was dying of AIDS. After more than a decade during which his work received relatively […]
ANATOMY OF WAR
Noah Scalin’s series “Anatomy of War,” includes sculptures that question our culture of violence. He has sculpted two weapons, an AK47 and a Smith & Wesson, “clinically dissected, revealing a remarkably human set of internal organs,” though “with a conspicuously absent brain.” With these alterations, Scalin says, “The objects become as fragile as the lives […]
QUEER URNS AND QUILTS
Grayson Perry began his career as a controversial artist best known for creating contemporary radical ceramic art and for being a transvestite. He’s since become an exceptionally successful artist, his media ceramics and textiles. We love his urn “Modern Family,” depicting a child with two fathers.
SABIO STYLN’ IN SAO PAULO
Do you consider this a throw up these days? It’s like a throw up with a couple extra decorative touches. Sabio has some really fun letters here ether way.
AGOSTINO ARRIVABENE “HIEROGAMY”
Agostino is like a foreign exchange student from an enigmatic era of science. Italians from the same region as Agostino say he speaks a different language, a sort of “ancient Latin” one could imagine casually spoken today only at a gathering of Alchemists Anonymous. The title of his exhibition, Hierogamy, means the sacred union – […]
DS1 Dual Shot Camera Mount System
The Dual Shot (DS1) is a camera mount that houses both a GoPro and practically any DSLR camera. Currently seeking funding on IndieGoGo, the DS1 features a detachable three-axis stabilizer with a rechargeable battery that can be mounted to bike helmets or any other mount, a DSLR camera style mounting bracket which is adjustable to […]
HERE’S THE ARTIST LIST FOR THE 2016 MARRAKECH BIENNIAL
This year’s Marrakech Biennial is titled “Not New Now.” Curated by Reem Fadda and Ilaria Conti, the 2016 edition will focus on artists who make politicized work that responds to conditions existing in everyday life. The Marrakech Biennial announced the artist list earlier today for its 2016 edition, which will open in Morocco on February […]
KUMI MACHIDA
Machida’s explorations of human relationships, self-consciousness and social awareness are expressed in each line—a void drawn within the silence of contemplation. Yet abandoned clues remain, cryptic signifiers, so that perhaps these portrayals of dysfunction, brutality, and displacement also offer a quilt of comfort after waking from a nightmare. Japan-based Kumi Machida depicts haunting biomorphic humans […]
IF EVERYTHING WAS SCI-FI
We posted about Filip Hodas’s work on our Instagram this week, and just loved the simplistic and futuristic landscapes he was created in each of his digital design works. It’s like sci-fi futures come to life! The Prague-based artist makes his creations almost appear hyperreal, or a time-traveling example of what Earth may appear like […]