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Tony Fitzpatrick’s latest exhibition at The Pierogi Gallery
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The Pierogi Gallery impresses again with Tony Fitzpatrick’s latest exhibition The Other Kind. Fitzpatrick is a talented playwright, performer, radio personality, with a natural ability for the visual arts. The show focuses on the artist’s obsessive collage work, loaded with iconic graphic imagery.
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Puppet stop-motion video by Hiné Mizushima
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Insect Hospital+ is the official video for the new They Might Be Giants album, Nanobots. The puppet stop-motion video was created by the talented craft artist Hiné Mizushima. She sells her amazing needle and felt work via Etsy.
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Realistic figurative art by Fuyuki Maehara
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The work of Fuyuki Maehara is amazingly deceptive, pushing realistic figurative art to obscene levels. The introverted Japanese artist has a tiny home near Tokyo, which he uses to carve pieces out of one block of wood with the television running for company. Recently interviewed by NHK, Maehara jokingly suggested only an ‘idiot’ would obsessively [...]
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Gravity defying Japanese artist Hironari Kubota
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The gravity defying Japanese artist Hironari Kubota often builds large-scale sculpture designed to spin massive objects in the air. For Studio Kura’s recent Itoshima Arts Farm festival, Kubota created a vast installation for a performance juxtaposing old and new technology by rotating a Mazda automobile with traditional Japanese wood construction.
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Brooklyn’s Pierogi Gallery exhibits Ryan Mrozowski’s art
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Founded in 1994 by Joe Amrhein, the Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn continues to impress. Amrhein was a pioneer in building Williamsburg’s art scene credibility. The gallery is now exhibiting the excellent work of Ryan Mrozowski, who possesses a sensitive painting manner. The show plays with a variety of mediums, including some unique light sculpture elements.
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Book of U: ink drawings by Edyta Ubych
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Occasionally one discovers the most fascinating treasures. Edyta Ubych has one of the most rewarding expressions within this vast global network. She is a prolific Flickr user from Poland. Ubych creates a strange narrative with her mysterious Book of U. Precious antiqued ink drawings on paper are coupled with gorgeous minimalist photographic documentation. Ubych offers a special peek into an enchanting private universe.
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Mike Rogers draws America’s nuclear power plants
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75 colored pencil drawings by Mike Rogers recently exhibited at the impressive Parker’s Box Gallery in Williamsburg. The work documented all of the nuclear power plants in various locations throughout the United States. An ambitious obsession with primary color coded repetition, depicting complex landscapes in simplistic Christmas Card fashion. The individual pieces are small, delicate, [...]
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Pepino: a Game Boy rock band
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The love for classic videogames will probably never die. Game Boy expression still evolves today. Malcolm McLaren suggested ‘chip music’ was the new punk rock, when writing for Wired Magazine in 2003. Pepino is a Game Boy Rock band devoted to the 8-bit genre. The group is comprised of Alejandro Cremades and Ai Kaijo, who [...]
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Conversations With Trees
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The use of the tree in the realm of the fine arts seems infinite. An inspired Shih Yun Yeo recently conceived of a truly unique study. The artist engaged in ‘collaboration’ with various trees in Singapore, collecting a number of drawings for a solo exhibition in 2011. The work relates heavily to her attempt to ‘release drawing from its enslavement to the artist’s hand’. Poetic and romantic, the expression cedes control to the natural environment as a creative source. Green envy.
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PONPONPON: a viral video by Kiriko Takemura
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This is a viral overdose for those experiencing severe withdrawals from Japan. Kiriko Takemura was a fashion blogger, turned model, who began to sell Harajuku Doll Eyelashes. She sings: ‘Everyday pon, everytime is pon’. Her stage name is Caroline Charonplop Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and she wears Takashi Murakami-styled balloon shorts with matching gloves. Yasutaka Nakata [...]
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Art Pop Up Shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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The Art Pop Up Shop (TAPS) is the latest swank space in Williamsburg which turned heads and hearts with work from Ellen Jong’s book titled Pees on Earth by powerHouse Books. The piece Cocktail might leave a bad taste [photo above]. Be careful. This work is dedicated. Coco Dolle is the Director at TAPS, which [...]
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 is the latest swank space in Williamsburg which turned heads and hearts with work from Ellen Jong’s book titled Pees on Earth by powerHouse Books. The piece Cocktail might leave a bad taste [photo above]. Be careful. This work is dedicated. Coco Dolle is the Director at TAPS, which [...]){kind=link}