3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Sculptor Bernardi Roig uses electric light as a metaphor for this mutation: fluorescent tubes encase his subjects, blinding them. The Artist explores the dynamics of voyeurism by revisiting classical myths, baroque iconography, and memento mori, filtered through the fundamental issues of post-modern thought. By uniting his own philosophical and literary appropriations, Roig has defined a modern form of realism.
Ivan Alifan was born in 1989 and raised in Russia, now currently completing his final year at OCAD University majoring in Drawing and Painting. He participated in the Hermitage Museum residency in St.Petersburg, Russia and was a part of OCADU's Off-Campus Studies Program, studying abroad in Florence, Italy
Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor arrived at Art Basel Hong Kong with a sculpture that emphasizes the Beetles form to the extreme – a real 1953 Beetle transformed into a perfect sphere. Check ABHK2013 Highlights on Yatzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3nsQbqxas4c
Please welcome 14 years old "Massachusetts-based photographer Fiddle Oak (his real name is Zev) who creates some impressive miniature photo-manipulations that he’s been sharing online with a growing audience for the last few years. Many of the images are a collaboration with Zev’s 18-year-old sister Nellie who helps with concepts and setup but all of the shooting and editing is done by Zev who is also frequently the subject of his own work."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiddleoak/with/6691220069/
Existential infrared-like artworks are coming out from the ink and paints of Georgia Th from Athens. You have to stop and watch them on http://www.behance.net/GeorgiaTh or def buy some one for your bedroom on http://society6.com/Georgiath
Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is rolling out a new installation at the Sperone Westwater NYC this month, composed of his iconic site-specific laser-cut metal towers. Intricate, decorative architectural spirals are made even more fascinating with Delvoye’s sly, humorous metal manipulations. via
All the sculptures you see here are created by Tom Eckert using wood and painting and nothing else but some magics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6xnVxgNFM_Y
An inspiring 75min DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. Filmed on the heat of live action of the first edition of ®NOVA Contemporary Culture, which happened in July / August 2010, in MIS-Museum of Image and Sound, and SESC Pompeia, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. http://rojoprojects.co/nova
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A1ax7SD8wk4
The series of handcrafted jewelry by Deimante Litvinaite of Lithuanian studio TADAM! Visually appeals to all dessert lovers -a line of wearable chocolates, mini donuts and coconut confections that look fresh out of the oven. via Designboom
Here are the ink drawings of Loui Jover, a Queensland Australia based artist who has been perfecting his craft since childhood. Check his works on Saatchi Online or Redbubble
London based artist Jacob Everett does huge hand ballpoint drawings with machine-like patterns.
I am a portrait artist working with biro on paper. I produce large-scale portraits using an intricate technique of overlapping elliptical marks, which gradually build to represent the subtle contours of the face. In common with digital images, my works, close up, appear as thousands of tiny ‘pixels’. When viewed from a distance they reveal the subtleties and nuances of individual character.
With an already incredible editorial portfolio shooting for TIME Magazine, Wallpaper* and Spin, Marton Perlaki is also the co-founder and photo director of award-winning magazine The Room.
“I’ve always been keen on capturing everyday reality by transforming it into photographs that suggests a world beyond reality. Most of my work features contrast in some way whilst striving for clarity and simplicity.”
Dan Quintana created a new series of stripped-down paintings and charcoal drawings for his upcoming solo show at San Francisco’s Varnish Fine Art, “Zero Instruments.” The figures — often beautiful women — appear to be haunted by the spirits of death, unable to escape their imminent mortality.
Pat Boas is an artist, writer and educator. Her drawings, paintings, prints and digital projects explore the play between words and images, the nature of codes and the arbitrary quality of the systems we use to communicate. With sources that include children’s homework exercises, newspaper headlines, web icons, crowd-sourced image banks, Shaker spirit drawings and the conventions of natural history illustration, she scrambles and reshapes information to release hidden stories from familiar grammatical structures. via
Currently based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jennifer Nehrbass is an artist who creates figurative and surreal oil paintings http://www.jennifernehrbass.com/
Michael Carson is an American artist who was born in 1972 in Minneapolis, MN. Influenced by the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec, Norman Rockwell, Malcolm Liepke, and Milt Kobayashi, Michael Carson is primarily a figurative artist who likes to tell a story. Michael Carson is a bold new talent emerging on the art scene represented by Jones & Terwilliger Galleries.
Artist of surreal and visionary themes, Patricia Ariel was born in 1970 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she lived and worked until moving to the United States. Currently she has been consistently working as a fine artist, illustrator, and designer, basing her images on her passion for the figurative art combined with geometric and expressionistic abstracts. http://patriciaariel.tumblr.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/laethereaofficina/
Canadian artist Sandra Chevrier presents the art series "Cases". As she stated on the personal website "The series "cages" is about women trying to find freedom from the cages of society's twisted preconceptions of what a woman should or shouldn't be. These women encased in these cages of brash imposing paint that masks their very personhood symbolises the struggle that women go through with having these cages of this expectation of false beauty and perfection on them and of the limitations society places on them, corrupting what truly makes women beautiful by putting them in these prisons of identity."
"After graduating college Nashville-based artist Alex Hall found himself on an uncertain path, overwhelmed and unsure of what was going to happen next. In an attempt to visualize his emotions and inner turmoil he set about creating a series of surreal oil paintings titled Relativity depicting anonymous people in similar forms of free-fall and indecision." (via Colossal)
