Doublefaced by Sebastian Bieniek
Berlin based artist Sebastian Bieniek will freak you out with his latest series of Doublefaced portraits
Vinyl Skulls by Ted Riederer
An avid lover of music and art, Ted Riederer created these skull forms by placing vinyl records atop a plaster skull mold and melting them down. The record label molds perfectly around the curvature of the frontal bone giving each skull a unique identity. The series, titled Primal Sound, "…aims to explore the symbols of music, and music communities, for their redemptive power. When I was 16, my life fell apart, I joined a band and was saved. The vinyl skulls are based on a nonfiction essay by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke entitled ‘Primal Sound.’ In this essay he ponders what sound the coronal suture would make as it closely resembles a sound wave. He proposes that this process of combining what seems like disparate elements initially to create something that the world has never heard, is a model for making good art." –Ted Riederer
Antonio Santin
Spanish artist Antonio Santin has created an incredible collection of hyper-realistic paintings depicting human bodies hidden under highly ornamented tapestries
Danielle - Aging experiment
"Last Thanksgiving, Anthony Cerniello traveled to his friend Danielle’s family reunion and with still photographer Keith Sirchio shot portraits of her youngest cousins through to her oldest relatives with a Hasselblad medium format camera. Then began the process of scanning each photo with a drum scanner at the U.N. in New York, at which point he carefully edited the photos to select the family members that had the most similar bone structure. Next he brought on animators Nathan Meier and Edmund Earle who worked in After Effects and 3D Studio Max to morph and animate the still photos to make them lifelike as possible. Finally, Nuke (a kind of 3D visual effects software) artist George Cuddy was brought on to smooth out some small details like the eyes and hair."
I wanted to make a person, I felt like I could tell a story with that, but it ended up feeling slightly robotic, like an android. I’m OK with that. Things never come out the exact way you plan them, but that’s the fun. The score I imagined would tell this woman’s life, with events speeding by as she aged, but in the end I thought it would be more interesting to go with an abstract piece of sound, and my friend Mark Reveley really came through because I love how it sounds.
http://vimeo.com/74033442
Marble Clothes by Alex Seton
Alex Seton is a Sydney-based artist best known for his realistic sculptures carved from marble. In the selection below, we explore Seton’s recreations of everyday clothing like hooded sweatshirts and t-shirts done in Carrara marble.
Michael Johansson art
Sweden contemporary artist Michael Johansson among numerous of excellent installation works has "Some Assembly Required" and "TOYS’R’US" projects that attracted our attention. Fascinated by assembling objects from model kits as a child, Michael Johansson transforms everyday objects into models of themselves. Taking away their original purpose, the life-size kits hold a commentary on today’s ways of living. In his first piece from the series, TOYS’R’US, a boat and related equipment are joined together in a welded metal frame. Everything is painted in a unifying plastic layer to resemble the surface of a model kit.
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Hong Chun Zhang
In case of hair phobia close the website. Otherwise please enjoy the artwork of Hong Chun Zhang having a clear and excellent obsession with hairs.
The idea of my graphite hair drawings and oil paintings is about humor, beauty and repulsion. To me, long hair not only looks beautiful, but sometimes it can be very unattractive in particular settings such as hair in the hamburger, egg, wineglass, cigarette, toothpaste and sink. I combine hair and daily used objects to evoke different feelings and emotions through a surrealistic approach.
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Light experimentation by Benoit Paillé
"Light Experimentation 3" is a new series of Digital Fine Art Photography by Quebec artist Benoit Paillé. "All these landscapes are photographed in the total dark, I light it up with car light and flashlight. So its a one single exposure shot around 30sec and minimal retouch ( minimal color correction )"
Speed Painting Timelapse by Lora Zombie
Talented artist from Saint Petersburg Lora Zombie recorded (Mike Droog) a timelapse of her recent drawing study
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http://vimeo.com/72874423
Balance from Within
Imagine the 170-years old sofa is balancing on one leg. Creative Applications writes "Created by Jacob Tonski, artist-in-residence at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, ”Balance from Within” is an installation that includes a 170-year-old Victorian sofa which balances precariously on one leg, continuously teetering, responding internally to external forces. Inside the body of the sofa, a robotic assembly maintains balance dynamically. As the sofa begins to fall, the mechanism senses tilting and exerts a force appropriate to counter the falling, resulting in an endless wobbling back and forth."
Balance comes from within. It’s a delicate act, and sometimes we fall down. ‘Balance from Within’ is a meditation on the nature of human relations, and the things we build to support them.
http://vimeo.com/72826106
Amy Judd Art
Amy Judd, a London based artist, takes her inspiration from the enchanting, imaginative relationship between women and animals found in traditional mythologies and stories from around the world. Amy’s paintings are sensitive moments between anonymous women and a bird or maybe a woman faceless and half-bird… via
Jonny Ruzzo
Gifted artist and illustrator from New York - Jonny Ruzzo caught our eyes with his series of female beauties named "Norns". Check all his artworks on www.jonnyruzzo.com and find few we selected below
Colors Organized Neatly by Emily Blincoe
“Colors Organized Neatly,” is an ongoing photo series by photographer Emily Blincoe, all candy and sweets were stored and arranged by colour
Out of Darkness by Estonian artist Merilyn
Estonian artist Merilyn (a.k.a. Naturalshocks) has an elegant collection of dark portraits (mostly of Benedict Cumberbatch) with subtle highlights. Her drawings have beautiful lighting and resemble a fade-in effect, and they were made with a white coloured pencil and grey pastel on black paper. via
Find out more on her gallery
Sas Christian
Huge lake-a-like eyes (don't mess with manga) is a significant character of Sas Christian fictional portraits. Check them all on www.saschristian.com
Mitch Griffiths art
In this newest instalment of our Art Focus, we introduce the work of British artist Mitch Griffiths. His style is inspired by Old Master paintings, but he cleverly subverts what he has learned to depict issues that affect modern society
Alessia Iannetti
With a dark breathe of Neoclassicism the work of Italian artist Alessia Iannetti goes to life on a small wood panes drawn by inks and watercolours. Check her latest work from "Daphne Descends" exhibition below
