Painting on Wood

Facade, Mixed Media

Paintings on wood by Berlin artist Tilo Uischner, from Saatchi Online.

Art meets Reality TV

I'm a little behind the eight ball with this, but it was recently brought to my attention that there was a "Project Runway" style reality TV show for artists called Work of Art (finally!). I managed to watch the first season in a weekend, and have now finished the second season - I am obsessed! It's apparently coming to Australia on Foxtel, but the US is already up to Season 3!

Elli Popp

I found this on Booooooom. These beautiful ceramics are by Elli Popp featuring drawings by Edwyn Collins (Empire Records fans). Go to http://ellipopp.com/Ceramics.html for more!

Double Exposure Photography

Florian Imgrund's double exposure work is done completely in camera without the use of photoshop, and often merges human forms with the natural landscape.

Like double exposure work? Check out Dan Mountford as well.

Cat Rabbit

It's been a busy week or two and I need to blog more.

So... have I mentioned how much I love Cat Rabbit's creations?

Featured in Frankie Magazine this month (Issue 46 March.April 2012).

Light Colour Time

Born in New Orleans, LA and living in LA, CA, Brice Bischoff's artwork deals intimately with the importance of physical and temporal space. He created his most recent series, Bronson Caves, by draping himself in colored paper and recording his movements with an extended exposure. Through this, and through much of his work, Brice tells the history of light in space and over time.


"I have always been attracted to the properties of light, and pushing that envelope in relation to photography has always been a concern of mine. Those interests are the foundation for the caves series. When I began the series and started experimenting with various movements and forms for the colored paper in relation to the architecture of the caves and I got the first few negatives back I knew I had something pretty special. It started a year long project of shooting there, exploring all the potential of that place. I have been returning to this issue of time. I think the camera is perfect for recording time, whether it is 1/1000 of a second or a year. Think of Nicholas Nixon's portraits of the Brown sisters over 25 years and how present the existence of time is in those photographs. I see time as a central issue within photographic production."

Tiny Pencil Carvings

Mind blowing tiny pencil carvings by Dalton Ghetti, a 49 year old carpenter from Connecticut. His sculptures often take years to complete mainly using a sewing needle or small metal blade to carve and no magnifying glass!

“The pencil tip is great; it’s like a pure, very homogenous material,” he said. “It cuts in the same direction, not like wood, which has a grain. But when I tell people how long it takes, that’s when they don’t believe it. That’s what amazes people more, the patience. Because everything nowadays has to be fast, fast, fast.”

Images from Twisted Sifter

Toni & Guy Yen Young Australian Art Award

 

Some great artwork by young Australian artists. http://www.yenmag.net/artaward/index.php
From left to right: 1. Jasmin Dwyer Dream 2011 2. Laura Williams Window Garden 2011 3. Lucrezia Tettoni Islands 2011

Laith McGregor

He's well known for his biro beard men, but I'm really liking more of Laith McGregor's recent work like Ping Pong Paradise.

Ping Pong Paradise (detail) 2011

100 Whales 2008

Untitled 2008

  

Beautiful hand-drawn Alphabet

Jakub Konvica

"Inspired by the famous Czech writer and poet Karel Hynek Mácha and his poem 'May'. I created an illustrated alphabet, in which every character illustrates words which appear in the poem. Afterwards, I cut the alphabet to pieces and rearranged them into new characters, which now represent the concrete stories."

Go to http://www.behance.net/konvica to see more amazing drawings.

Gabriella Barouch

Drawings by Gabriella Barouch who just finished school at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel and now lives and works in Paris (via stumbling through dark rooms).

I heart Polli

Really loving Sydney design team Polli and their cute and sustainable jewellery. Check out more here.

Benconservato (well preserved)

Bensonservato is the alias of Emma Kidd, an artist/illustrator from Sydney's Northern Beaches. She has travelled and lived in Europe and a land of mythical animals. She likes to work across many different disciplines creating whimsical artworks with monsters, beasts, sea creatures and imaginary lands. I just love her magical creatures and am very lucky to own the nesting dolls pictured above.

P.S. In addition to her website and blog she also has an Esty shop where you can buy some of her lovely creations - like I did!

Paper Now

Bronwyn Berman The Eternal Dance 2011 

Paper Now: 28 January - 4 March 2012

Paper Now comprises thirty works by eleven Australian artists who share a common approach to their current practice through the use of paper as the primary medium. Paper is part of our everyday experience - we use it at home, at work, in our leisure time. It is functional, ephemeral and transient. Rarely does it extend into the realm of the aesthetic. In this exhibition artists Sally Aplin, Bronwyn Berman, Marguerite Derricourt, Melinda Le Guay, Brigiat Maltese, Nerine Martini, Helen Mueller, Maryann Mussared, Jenny Pollak, Liz Shreeve and TianLi Zu employ concepts and techniques from a range of artistic and cultural traditions to transform our experience of paper. They cut, fold, stitch, etch, stamp, trace, draw and paint on and with paper highlighting the sensuality and fragility of this extraordinarily versatile substance.

View catalogue on the Incinerator website (link below)

Incinerator Art Space Willoughby, NSW                    
Artist Talks:  2pm, Saturday 11 February & Saturday 3 March 2012

Fish painted in resin

Absolutely incredible fish painted in resin by Riusuke Fukahori. WATCH THE VIDEO!

The girl with seven horses

 “Once upon a time there was a girl who had 7 invisible horses. People thought she was crazy and that she in fact had 7 imaginative horses, but this was not the case. When autumn came the girl spent a whole day washing all her clothes. She hung them on a string in her garden to let the gentle autumn sun dry them. Out of nowhere, a terrible storm came and its fiercefull winds grabbed a hold of all her clothes and all seven horses (authors note: since they are invisible they obviously didn’t weigh much). The girl was devastated and spent all autumn looking for each horse spread around the country, wrapped in her clothes.” - Ulrika Kestere


http://www.ulrikakestere.com/


http://ulicam.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/girl-with-7-horses-7.html


My love for you...

The Cat Scan

Got a cat? Got a scanner? The choice is clear. The Cat Scan.

Christina Empedocles

Unkempt 3 2011

Thank You #53609 2010

Hill Auditorium 3-18-89  2010

Christina Empedocles, born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, discovered her love of nature on early morning bird watching trips in the fourth grade. After graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio, she started her career as a geologist in San Francisco before transitioning to fine art, receiving her MFA in painting from California College of the Arts in 2008.

Empedocles uses obsessive realism in an attempt to recapture her early fascination of the natural world, mixing idealized images and reality in a unique perspective. By folding and cutting images, using sculpture, painting and collage, she records personal moments and impressions, enhanced by the ephemera of everyday. Her work is the result of hours of looking – contrasting the nostalgic fantasy of idealized memory and the intense focus of the realistic image.

 Christina has been awarded a public art project at the University of California, San Francisco, and has had her work included in Manifest’s International Drawing Annual, Studio Visit Magazine, American Art Collector and Color & Color. She currently shows in Denver and New York.