3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
An interactive media installation called Firewall created in collaboration with Mike Allison. A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and create fire-like visuals and expressively play music.
http://vimeo.com/54882144
"Photographer Joanne Leah works in “seduction, ritual, and tension”. Her pieces capture relationships, between two people or art and its viewer, as it alternately relaxes and strains. In the series featured in this post the angle of the light is severe recalling the chiaroscuro of baroque painting. The light, though, is cold, almost lonely, emphasizing the solitary figure in each photograph. Whether, the subject holds teeth in her palm or wields a knife a drama is clearly unfolding."
"These melting disco balls are the work of German collective Rotganzen. The installation, titled Quelle Fête, features scattered disco balls in various stages of melting. No longer operable or spinning, they lie lazily on the floor." Regarding the concept, Rotganzen says:“Our conscious choice of the material and form contains a contrast to the message. It’s a reminder of the momentousness of glamour and swiftly passing glory. What once may have been a perfect shape takes on a new character and meaning. However, rather than a cynical take on reality, our intention is to offer a playful approach to observing our object of depiction.”
Roger Reutimann is a Swiss artist and sculptor living and working in Colorado. His figurative art is simply amazing
"In her delicate crafted porcelain sculptures conceptual artist Kate McDowell expresses her interpretation of the clash between the natural world and the modern-day environmental impact of industrialized society. The resulting works can be equal parts amusing and disturbing as the anatomical forms of humans and animals become inexplicably intertwined in her delicate porcelain forms." via Colossal
"Artist Carlos Cruz Diez has been developing Chromosaturation since 1965, during the movimiento cinético (Kinetic Movement) of that era. The installation is a space composed of three color chambers (red, green and blue) that place the viewer in a completely monochrome situation." via Protein
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The central allegory of Mortality and Time - skull - may never loose its trend in art. Skull is a main subject of Tom French's figurative drawings. In his works he carefully combines detailed photorealism with strong elements of abstraction and surrealism, focusing on the reflection of the conscious and subconscious mind. His work seamlessly merges the use of academic tradition with contemporary urban realism.
RIP 1982 - 2019 :(
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Crystal clear photography from Sweden artist Gustave Adbage, we draw your attention to the project called "Without Natural Light"
Conceived by the advertising agency W+K from Sao Paolo, the following video presents graffiti artists putting their art everywhere, without even destroying the city landscape. he whole thing is part of the newest campaign for Smirnoff that answers to the quote “Don’t wait for the extraordinary night”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-3N1_WBl1QI
Love these surreal photography of Canadian artist, Joel Robinson, where he has plants and trees emerging from the veins of an anonymous human arm
Using a rotring pen on white paper, Cornwall-based artist Mark Lascelles Thornton has embarked on a massive architectural drawing project called the The Happiness Machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ffDDry55CfQ
Born in 89' under the Brixton sun, Abe has successfully progressed from early aged doodles, to firmly realized pencil works. Her drawings have graced a multitude of mediums; from album covers to exhibition walls and a London bus.http://www.tsabe.co.uk/
Landscape photography from French artist David Keochkerian
Sculptures made with coloured Staedtler pencils by Lionel Bawden
"The American photographer Julie Blackmon has a unique way of portraying everyday life. Her works are rich in geometric shapes and details, stolen directly from Dutch and Flemish painters of about 400 years ago while in their setting and lighting they evoke the paintings of Edward Hopper."
Captivating figurative paintings by Houston-based artist Kevin Peterson . I don't know why but some of his works remind me neoclassical masterpieces of Jacques-Louis David, maybe it is just a play of colours, light and shadows but anyway there is definitely something between Kevin's picture and the eyes "My work is about the varied journeys we take through life. It’s about growing up and living in a world that is broken. These paintings are about trauma, fear and loneliness and the strength that it takes to survive and thrive. They each contain the contrast of the untainted, young and innocent against a backdrop of a worn, ragged, and defiled world. Support versus restraint, bondage versus freedom, and tension versus slack are all themes that I often visit. My work deals with isolation, loneliness and longing teamed with a level of optimistic hope. Issues of race and the division of wealth have arisen in my recent work. This work deals with the idea of rigid boundaries, the hopeful breakdown of such restrictions, as well as questions about the forces that orchestrate our behavior."
World renowned contemporary sculptor David Černý recently created a huge anamorphic kinetic fountain in North Carolina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5xjfYsulSxE
Elfan is a gifted illustrator from Indonesia performs a video capture of a daily drawing. View his hand-drawings, mainly portraits, made with coloured pencils on paper on http://elfandiary.tumblr.com/ http://vimeo.com/54891566
"Holly Andres is a photographer born in 1977 in Montana, USA. She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She uses photography to look at the complexity of childhood, the ephemeral nature of memory and women’s introspection. Her photos tend to reflect a subject apparently available but with a second reading implied, darker and sometimes disturbing. She was exhibited around the world and published in numerous publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Time, Elle Magazine, The LA Times, Glamour, etc.. "
"Masha Reva is a 25-year-old fashion designer originally from Odessa, Ukraine. She graduated from the Kiev National University of Technology and Design with a MA in fashion. She is now living in London, studying Women’s Wear at Central St Martins. Her new collection in collaboration with Syndicated of Kiev is called Botanical Layers. The collection is inspired by nature and GUI from Photoshop. The prints are juxtaposing social networks and natural environment creating a metaphorical botanical garden of Photoshop layers and loading bars." Read interview with Masha on http://www.triangulationblog.com/2012/12/masha-reva.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=22hOd6771Jw
