Art of Ian Davenport
British artist Ian Davenport creates artworks by pouring gallons of colours in his own way on canvas creating slit scan effect
British artist Ian Davenport creates artworks by pouring gallons of colours in his own way on canvas creating slit scan effect
Thomas Danthony (previously) is a London based artist, illustrator, and designer. In 2015, he has created “VOYAGE”, a series of paintings that serve as invitations to a poetic journey. Inspired by distant countries and exotic places, the artworks convey a touch of romance and mystery.
Johnson Tsang (previously) is an exceptional artist who skilfully combines figurative sculptural techniques with surreal portrayals. His latest series ‘Lucid Dream’ consists of sculptures of human heads in strangely transformed representations. The sculptures were made of porcelain representing different faces or personalities in a variety of weird situations. The complete series could be seen at Hong Kong’s Sculpture Biennial 2016.
James Jean was born in Taiwan and graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts. His critically acclaimed illustration and fine art career has led him to create covers for DC Comics, collaborate with Prada, and to exhibit his work worldwide.
Upcoming exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery
Dmitri Aske had his first solo show in September — October, 2016 in Vladey Space Gallery, Moscow, Russia. The exhibition called Reality 2.0 included eight new artworks made in the artist's unique technique of a multilayer plywood relief especially for the show. All the works are dedicated to the digital era we are living in, now that the Internet takes up more and more of our time and attention becoming for many people the second reality. The addiction some people have might be even compared to a mother-child relationship. At the same time, as Marshall McLuhan wrote as far back as 1960s, people don't actually notice how new media entering our lives are gradually changing us.
A person born before the 1990s sees video calls, a 'computer-in-your-pocket' phone, and a broadband Internet connection available almost everywhere as materialisation of the future. Meanwhile, the new generation takes all that for granted as a beginning of a new era. In his new body of work, Dmitri Aske reflects our time suggesting that the viewers should contemplate how much all of us are absorbed by Reality 2.0.
Talented artist we discovered few years ago Henrietta Harris has created lots of new artworks since than. Her paintings often involved portraiture with a departure into the surreal with faces skilfully obscured and misplaced by the clean sweep of a brushstroke.
Bill Durgin works with human's body as a metaphoric material. In his photography models become sculptures bending the reality and primitive laws of physics.
Canadian artist living and working in Toronto Elly Smallwood creates emotional portraits and other statements on canvas using large brush strokes and graphite.
Recently exhibited at Frieze Art London "Pink Project" of Portia Munson is a bold setup of feminst artists represented by NY Gallery P.P.O.W.
P.P.O.W.’s booth at Frieze London, 2016. Photo by Benjamin Westoby for Artsy
"The highlight of P.P.O.W.’s booth is certainly Portia Munson’s 1994/2016 Pink Project: Table, in which the artist collected hundreds of pink, plastic items—dolls, My Little Ponies, makeup receptacles, hair accessories, and mirrors among them—marketed at young girls and women. The table is not just a feast for the eyes, but also a trip down memory lane and a potent reminder of consumerism’s influence on children." Artsy
““Pink Project,” first exhibited in the New Museum’s Bad Girls exhibition in 1994, consists of thousands of discarded pink objects carefully arranged on a large table. It is a visual overload of products that were created to appeal specifically to women and girls, including hair clips, pacifiers, fake fingernails, combs, dildos, cleaning products, toys, tampon applicators, kitchen gadgets and hundreds of other items, all representing mass seduction and consumption. The “Pink Project” has taken various forms: as sculpture, presented in glass vitrines, as a room-sized mound, a bedroom (exhibited at Mass MOCA in 2010), and a glass coffin.
Each iteration of the work has revealed the marketing of femininity and the infantilization of the female gender while also exploring the culturally loaded color pink and its continued societal projection onto girls and women.”
Photo by Present & Correct
David Cunningham’s compelling realistic paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States. His ongoing series of hyper realistic artworks depicting seashore stones became a sort of representation of artist's inner world.
"Whatshisname" is an art alias of Polish artist living in London. His recent works includes punk parody on Koons "balloon" art - POPek Red, a statue of squatting balloon dog.
POPek Red Large
“The aim of my art is to express what cannot be express with words. I want to encourage the viewer to look at surrounding world and question it in derisive, unorthodox way.”
POPek Red Small
Knife sharpener
Riots Lamps
Istanbul artist Aykut Aydoğdu (previously) shares new set of striking illustrations
"Acrylicize is a London-based art collective and consultancy who design and produce unique, made to order art installations for special spaces. They create original works that blur the boundaries between Art and brand and express identity in new and unique ways. Below we listed some of their award-winning works in a wide variety of sectors"
Colombian artist based in Barcelona Cesar Biojo is famous for "destroying" the object of painting in his only manner. This involves techniques such as adding blobs of paint or smearing what is before him, the works created give way to the imperfections existent in all humans.
"Liz West creates a multi-coloured rainbow space for Bristol Biennial. Known for her vibrant light installations, the artist filled an empty office block with gel-filtered, fluorescent shades, from radiant red to nostalgic violet. West wanted to build a sensory experience that will put human perception in focus. ‘Our Colour’ site-specific project let her find that the eye travelling through an entire palette will most likely return to the colour it finds most comfortable and pause to enjoy it."
Tezi Gabunia inside "Saatchi Gallery"
Put Your Head into Gallery is an interactive art project run by Georgian artist Tezi Gabunia, that presents four different models of famous galleries. The project involves "exhibitions" of different artists in Saatchi Gallery (Tezi Gabunia), Louvre (Rubens), Tate Modern (Hirst) and Gagosian Gallery (Liechtenstein). Mobile feature of physical models makes these "galleries" accessible for everyone. Moreover, anyone can look inside gallery, take a photo and become a part of exhibition.
Australian based artist Tanya Schultz is well known for her use of psychedelic colour, glitter, pipe-cleaners, pom poms and just about everything in her quirky works.
Working under her pseudonym Pip Pop she creates installations bound in colour and creativity in her wonderful mini landscapes which unfurl over gallery floors and walls in her signature eccentric style.
Melbourne-based Jenny Allnutt's work deals with symbolism, the uncanny, transformation, the unconscious and identity. Check her recent artworks on Facebook and Instagram
Michael Carson’s glamorous scenes, set in bars, clubs, cafés, and dance studios, are marked by a hazy realism reminiscent of French impressionist and post-impressionist works by artists such as Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Carson, who was formally trained in design, brings elements of fashion and architecture into his work, but his foremost commitment is to the art of painting. “I love the ways that a single brushstroke can create such subtleties in facial expression,” he has remarked. “I spend most of my time on the face and hands. They tell the story.”
Dragan Ilic is a conceptual artist who explores how machines interact with art. His new project looks to examine this process from another angle, one that literally elevates his body above the ground via the arm of a robot. Rather than using machines to help focus his artistic tools, Ilic’s latest project sees him becoming the robot’s paintbrush. As the large industrial factory robot’s articulated joints move about with Ilic attached, the artist is left only to create what the robot allows him to create. According to those involved it represents “both the repetitiveness involved in technological production, as well as representing a new stage of ritual or transgressive experiences of the author himself.” - writes The Daily Dot