Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Matt Held
Matt Held, a fine artist with a specilsation in portraiture was blocked. After upping sticks from Seattle to NYC in his late thirties, young family in tow, as a last chance at ‘making it’, he became a stay at home Dad with the couple’s new child. Nothing he did worked. Until, as an exercise in skintone, he painted his wife’s facebook profile photo. Shortly after, the “I’ll have my portrait painted by Matt Held” facebook group was born, and Matt was presented with no end of source material, inspiration, and an instant international network of influencers. Brooklyn Museum came calling, the blog posts spread and his numbers soared. We hang with Matt’s family, and talk to No.16, No.33 and No.36 about why they were keen to be painted by someone they’ve never met, and what the project means to them.
Click here to go to the site.
Click here to go to the site.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Banksy
Check out more of Banksy's amazing work by clicking here.You can also see more at the Printana Site by clicking here or doing a search on printana.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Doug Anderson Installation: Asphodel
Also check out some of Doug's other amazing drawings on his website.
These include mixed media works utilizing lint pads, packing tape, to mythology and altered portraits.
Click on the text above or here to go to the site.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Light Graffiti (AK)
Daniel Schwartz is a sophomore at Penn who moonlights as a light graffiti artist.
It's interesting to note that Picasso and Photographer Gjon Mili experimented with this back in the 40's. These are from 1949.
See Below.
It's interesting to note that Picasso and Photographer Gjon Mili experimented with this back in the 40's. These are from 1949.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Carl Krull (SP) Check out his great videos.
Click here to go to his main page.
Check out his series of floor drawings. He has some great movies of the works in progress.
Click here for a sample.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Gosia Wlodarczak (BH)
AFETY ZONE IS THE HUMAN NEED TO HAVE/ESTABLISH A ZONE OF SECURITY (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL), A SPACE IN WHICH TO FEEL SAFE, COMFORTABLE, AT HOME WHEN THE MIND CANNOT FOCUS, WAITING FOR UNEXPECTED INVADERS; WHEN, AT NIGHT, THE BODY CANNOT RELAX TWISTED IN READINESS TO GET UP AND RUN… SAFETY ZONE IS THE NEED TO HAVE/ESTABLISH A ZONE OF STABILITY, A PLATFORM OF DISCOURSE WHEN THE ACTUALITY OF THE PERSONAL, CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC MIND-SET IS CONSCIOUS IN TWO LANGUAGES, POLISH AND ENGLISH; WHEN THIS CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES UNPREDICTABLE MOMENTS DURING WHICH ONE IS NOT ABLE TO COMMUNICATE IN WORDS—A ‘SPACE’ BETWEEN LANGUAGES; WHEN THIS VOID NULLIFIES IDENTITY, AND PRODUCES A SENSE OF DISPLACEMENT, CONFUSION AND FEAR; WHEN IN THE PROCESS OF THINKING EACH LANGUAGE OCCURS/DISAPPEARS SPONTANEOUSLY AND INEXPLICABLY; WHEN NEW LANGUAGE PENETRATES INTO DISTANT MEMORIES, INTO OLDER LAYERS OF KNOWLEDGE, AND RESHAPES THEM; WHEN OLD LANGUAGE SLIPS AWAY AND CHANGES INTO INCORRECT, CRIPPLED FORMS…. Gosia Wlodarczak
Click here for more info.
Also check out her installations by clicking here.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Bob Nugent "Amazonia"
Bob Nugent , "Amazônia" Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil, March 18 - May 10, 2009
On March 18th, Tomie Ohtake Institute in Sao Paulo, Brazil opened its doors to "Amazônia", a monumental piece Bob has been working on for the past 3 years. The 340ft. long drawing is a representation of Bob’s experiences with the Amazon River.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Walton Creel: Deweaponizing The Gun (MM)
DEWEAPONIZING THE GUN - Walton Creel
The terms gun and weapon are practically interchangeable. From hunting to war, self defense to target practice, the gun has been a symbol of power and destruction. Art and entertainment have both taken the same approach to he gun. Traveling Wild West shows had gunslingers that shot crude silhouettes and names, but this was done to illustrate the shooters prowess. Some artists have used high speed film to capture a bullet slicing through its target, while other artists have melted guns into sculptures.
When I decided I wanted to make art using a gun, I was not sure what direction I would have to take. I knew I did not want to use it simply as an accent to work I was doing, but as the focus. My main goal was to take the destructive power away from the gun. To manipulate the gun into a tool of creation and use it in a way that removed it from its original purpose. To deweaponize it.
During my first experiment I came across the concept of creating an image hole by hole on a surface. I also figured out that canvas would be too stressed by the process of a rifle firing many bullets into it. I moved on to aluminum and, with further experimentation, I figured out exactly how far apart my shots needed to be and that moving beyond .22 caliber was simply too destructive. When the aluminum was painted beforehand, the blast of the gun knocked off a tiny amount of paint around each hole, which helped fuse the image together.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Vintage Life Drawing Classes (b)
Art Students League, 1940 New York
1940, Rochester Athenaeum & Mechanics Institute
Life drawing class, 1930.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
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