On April 15th, Director, Julian Marshall is launching an amazing new film entitled OBEY THE GIANT. It is about the early life of Shepard Fairey and the origin of his OBEY GIANT street art campaign. The film takes place in Providence, RI in 1990 when Shepard was a student at Rhode Island School of Design.
http://vimeo.com/42453172#at=0
Singapore-based artist Keng Lye meticulously produces three-dimensional works of art with acrylics and epoxy resin that lie somewhere between painting and sculpture. Using a technique originated by Riusuke Fukahori, Lye manages to produce the illusion of different animals swimming in water. The time-consuming process involves pouring resin into a bowl and then painting on top of it with acrylics, layer by layer. (via MMN)
Simply charcoal on paper drawings by Kelly Blevins with the mind-blowing result
Vincent Giarrano's figurative paintings in which the artist has taken moments from everyday life, and has made of them something beautiful and introspective.
“What inspires me most is the energy and beauty of my experiences,” says Giarrano. “I see painting as a way to appreciate what is all around us, stuff we take for granted or don't notice. My favorite things to paint are scenes of life in New York City. I love the architecture and people of the city. It's endlessly inspiring. I enjoy painting scenes on the streets but also interiors, which are often about people, alone and in their own thoughts. For me, that presents someone as more truly himself or herself.”
Natalia Rak is one of the most exciting painters and street artists to emerge in Poland’s contemporary art scene. Born in 1986, Natalia received a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Lodz, Poland, specializing in graphic arts. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, and she has made waves at some of the continent’s most prestigious street art events, most recently at the 2012 Walk and Talk Festival on Madeira Island in the Portuguese Azores. via (Sweet Station) http://vimeo.com/44730699
Sarah DiNardo unveils one of her greatest passions - creating art by rolling endless lengths of brown masking tape into different sized rolls which she then places into found boxes. Watch the video interview directed at the Gnarly Bay below via
http://vimeo.com/60188744
P.s. I think it is just a coincidence but Sarah's objects looks like Evegeny Kiselev's cover art for DCMAG#1 and it is cool!
Thierry Cohen is seen as one of the pioneers of digital photography. Since 2010 he has devoted himself to a single project – “Villes Eteintes” (Darkened Cities) – which depicts the major cities of the world as they would appear at night without light pollution, or in more poetic terms: how they would look if we could see the stars. (via BD)
To make the work he combines two photographs, one with the retouched night city and second with the sky in a same angle of the cityscape and latitude just where it is possible to see the stars like the Mojave, the Sahara, and the Atacama Desert.
Tumblr team invites to meet Mike Breach, barista extraordinaire, who "paints" everything -- and everyone -- into his lattes. (via Colossal)
http://vimeo.com/63098055
Using a combination of figurative art and free-flowing abstraction, Serbian painter Milan Hrnjazovic endeavors to visually represent the emotional anxiety of the young adult female's evolving sense of self-image and burgeoning sexual desires. (via Juxtapoz)
"Denver-based artist Chris Carlson who is known for his work with 3D chalk illusions created a great stop motion Tetris game. The shading, perspective and motion is incredibly spot-on. You can see more of his video game and pop-culture influenced chalk drawings over on Tumblr." (via Colossal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y0_lw5QXSvk
Even this coolest winter in European history has its pluses if you are a creative head. For Canadian environmental artist Nicole Dextras a severe weather is just another challenge to create massive ice messages to the human being or penguins. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndextras/
When the ice texts are installed on site, the temperature determines how long it will take for them to change state from solid to liquid. This phase of transition becomes symbolic of the interconnectedness of language and culture to the land as they are affected by time and by a constant shifting and transforming nature.
Impressive surreal paintings by Norway-base self-taught artist Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen. The atmosphere in his subject matter is often depict in a limbo or dream-like state. Despite his realistic approach, photographic accuracy is not what he seeks to achieve.
iNO has been a graffiti writer since 2000. The earlier years he produced mostly letters and bombing but after 2008 he focused in developing his style in characters. He studied Fine Arts and is active as a street artist. He is working constantly to evolute his spray painting technique and produce large scale murals.
http://vimeo.com/62858341
Instead of using paintbrushes, Italian artist Paolo Troilo dips his fingers into jars of black and white paint, and then smudges and splashes it onto large canvases. Each hand stroke is expressive and filtered into his subject matter of nude men yelling and fighting. via
http://vimeo.com/40214766
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What if Picasso and Rembrandt had met to have cocktails in 1953? You can imagine the talks they would have had: electric, inspired, and maybe even heated. The work that could have spawned from such a conversation might have looked a bit like that of Cesar Santos. His paintings seemingly bring the works of masters – from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century to Modernism – together, juxtaposing their styles one on top of the other. He call the series (and it is) Syncretism
A multimedia collaboration between Nathan Sawaya (Sculptor) and Dean West (Photographer). The project "In Pieces" is a series of tableau compositions based on ideas about nature, culture, society and more specifically, identity. The images have been constructed using modern photography techniques, combined with specially sculpted LEGO® objects placed within the scenes.
http://vimeo.com/58192262
http://vimeo.com/11021913
Born in Moscow and grown in London, Elena Romanova combined work in advertising industry and studying in Royal Acadeny School in her tender age. Few years later she set up a gallery and then through a series of exhibition appeared to represent Great Russian at the Venice Biennale in 2011. That's quite a good career and we hope to hear more from Elena, meanwhile enjoy her watercolours. http://www.etsy.com/people/PortLove
No digital pixels were harmed while Felice created this huge anamorphic installations using only the paint and eye tricks. He has been creating these massive pieces since 1979; starting small with room based installations, but later growing to pieces that cover entire villages and require a hike up a mountain to properly appreciate. http://www.varini.org/
Inspired by the bubble wrap I did my first bubble calendar ten years ago in uni, few years later I found the same idea in production spreading across the web. The bubble wrap obsession is a real stress reliever. But how about art? Bradley Hart armed with paint and injector creates these paintings. The result is a fantastic analog/digital picture fitting of our modern era.
