New Art
New Art / Sarah Applebaum
February 8, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak 
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Sarah Appleboum makes a neon felt and yarn explosion in your face and everywhere, the epicenter of which is in San Francisco. While you’re unconscious from the impact, you will dream of rainbow yetis, shamans, and soft revolvers.
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New Art / Kim Piotrowski
February 6, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Kim Piotrowski’s vaguely representational mixed-media paintings emphasize the process of their creation, with each splatter, smear, drip, and brushstroke as important to the form as the composition and the layering of colors and values. It reminds me of the work of Steven LaRose, who we mentioned a while back. Read more
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New Art / Morphing Mysteries of Science
February 4, 2010 | New Art | by Helen Ferry |
An impressive exhibition of outstanding digital prints is now showing at the New York Hall of Science. Digital 09: Mysteries in Science explores the complexities inherent within many areas of scientific research such as biomimicry, astrophysics, nanoscience, quantum mechanics, neurobiology and biomedicine. Read more
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New Art / Famous Felt People
February 4, 2010 | New Art | by Zolton |
So not everything that comes out of Wasilla, Alaska is stupid. These amazing Felt Alive Wool Sculptures by Alaskan artist Kay Petal are made from a hundred percent needle felted wool without any patterns or sewing stitches. Read more
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New Art / Takayuki Shimada
February 2, 2010 | New Art | by Zolton |
The vibrant, colourful artwork of Takayuki Shimada is inspired by both Japanese and American pop culture. Read more
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New Art / Paco Pomet
January 29, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Granada-born artist Paco Pomet bases his paintings on old archival photographs, interjecting silly, surreal, and absurd elements — skewed and stretched features, scale shifts, extra or missing limbs, or goofy pop imagery — commenting on the distorting nature of memory. Read more
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New Art / Aleksandra Rdest
January 27, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Canadian painter Aleksandra Rdest looks to forms in nature — clouds, cells, sound waves — for a jumping-off point for her large-scale abstract paintings. The translucence she achieves with acrylic gives her pieces a luminous, backlit quality that captivates the viewer much in the way that Mark Rothko’s paintings do. Read more
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New Art / Yue Minjun
January 27, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Yue Minjun, one of the originators of the Cynical Realist movement in contemporary Chinese art, has been applying his iconic grinning face to various forms and materials for decades, but his recent series, Colorful Running Dinosaurs — consisting of metallic humanoid dinosaur sculptures — takes his work to an interesting place where mythology, pop culture, and the contradictory aspects of the Chinese zeitgeist converge. Read more
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New Art / Yuka Izutsu’s artwork
January 26, 2010 | New Art | by Zolton |
This Pink Table was made out of fluorescent pink acrylic, drawn and lazercut wood grain. Says artist, Yuka Izutsu: ‘I created it because it feels closer than hanging paintings’. Read more
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New Art / Tomer Hanuka
January 22, 2010 | New Art | by Zolton |
There’s an oddly apocalyptic, daringly sensual, and subtly layered feel about the work of artist Tomer Hanuka. You always get the sense that you’re peering in like a slightly over-zealous voyeur on a scene that you really have no right to intrude upon. Read more
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New Art / John Casey
January 20, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
When drawing partially from life, I’ve always been compelled to distort proportions and exaggerate features to break myself away from the rigidity of trying to copy exactly what I saw in front of me. John Casey does this particularly well in his sparsely composed but densely rendered drawings that while referencing reality to a degree, take on surreal, fantastical, and grotesque elements. Read more
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January 20, 2010 | New Art | by Zolton |
Curated by Nathan Purcell, the newly opened Easy Street Gallery, on Brooklyn’s Grand Street, features the work of a different glass artist each month. It’s mind-blowing stuff, a giant room full of dauntingly brilliant functional glass pipe creations. Read more
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New Art / Jim the Skull Artist
January 17, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
The self-proclaimed ’skull artist’ going simply by the name of Jim makes tribal-inspired skullptures (sorry, couldn’t resist) out of woven rope and string and other simple materials. His work is surprisingly diverse, often highlighting the various ways in which the image of a skull will eternally hold sway over our imagination. Read more
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New Art / Marla Olmstead: is she the real deal?
January 16, 2010 | New Art | by Zolton |
We posted a while back about the debate surrounding the legitimacy of the artwork of child prodigy Marla Olmstead. The furor, in particular, centered around her performance in a controversial documentary, My Child Could Paint That, which looked at the then four-year old, who was already exhibiting regularly, despite her age, and the questions that were raised about the influence of her ambitious father. We’ve since received a long but mixed bag of comments about her work, from statements blaming the media (‘I watched the movie, and I do believe that the MEDIA has the ability to make ANYTHING look different than reality’), to disbelievers (‘not convinced one bit that the paintings she was filmed painting and the others were painted alone by Marla’), to those who think Marla is the greatest thing since, well, sliced bread (‘this child is amazing, her work speaks for itself’). Check out the comment thread and let us know your thoughts.
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New Art / Tom Howes
January 16, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
I spent a Thanksgiving in Kalamazoo, MI, one year with my college roommate’s mother, father, and stepfather. My roommate was recovering from heroin addiction, and nodded off at the table as her family made small talk with me. It was awkward and tragic, but I felt somehow privileged to witness it. Kalamazoo-based artist Tom Howes makes drawings and collages that apotheosizes the redemptive beauty which emerges from the confluence of ugliness, absurdity, weakness, and hope in humanity. Howe sites witnessing a basketball player casually vomiting in the midst of playing as an artistically inspirational moment, but his work has a mythic air about it that transcends any specific imagery. Read more
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Prog rock had Roger Dean, ’80s death metal had Dan Seagrave, and now, the new wave of American heavy metal has Tom Denney, who creates some of the most intense and intricate album covers since the psychedelic ’70s. Read more
I’ve had bloodsuckers on the mind lately, which is better than having them on the neck. But that’s a different story altogether, and not one I want to contemplate on this windswept Brooklyn evening with the moon hanging low and the faintest quiver of mid-Fall chill sending all little creatures scrurrying for the shelter of their urban brick palaces. Read more
Rack is a quarterly bilingual magazine, published in English and Chinese, and geared towards Asian influenced global youth culture. Read more
Monarch are an incredibly grim, lumbering doom metal band from Basque country in France. Frontwoman Emilie Bresson is one of those rare female singers in metal that’s at once fierce and raspy, yet identifiably female, creating a haunting, menacing sound that can stand up against the most ragingly macho bands out there.
The work of Australia’s Ben Frost is always interesting. He’s known for his controversial art juxtapositions that confront contemporary Western paradigms in our advertising obsessed society. Crapitalism is on display until November 3 at Opus Gallery in Newcastle, UK. I do hope any disgruntled viewers refrain themselves from slashing his work with a knife, unlike the infamous 2000 Australian episode.
Oh boy, this is fun. Omaha’s Tilly and the Wall are kitsch-cool-camp-vauderville meets pop-folk-flamenco, with a tap dancer for a drummer and some serious, serious charisma for a calling card.
Just when I thought my favourite flip flops couldn’t get any better, Havaiana are still offering their thong straps laced with Swarovski crystals. I reckon the bling bling lover in you won’t mind forking out a little extra moolah if it means adding some sparkle to your Havis. Read more
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German painter Armin Rohr’s works look like stills from Stan Brakhage films, all acid-washed, scratched out, and ethereal like a sudden flood of memories. Read more
Hong Kong-based illustrator Man-Tsun draws dark and beautiful painterly images that look like they are straight off a high-end Japanese animated film. Read more
I live the upbeat, feel good tempo of the new single — A Hundred Hearts — from Philly group, The Swimmers. Off their latest album, People Are Soft, this song is a strangely fitting anthem for the blustery day outside.
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Kate Banazi’s silkscreen artwork
A three-lettered ‘wow’ explodes in my mind whenever I look at the work of Sydney-based silkscreen artist Kate Banazi. Her latest work is fantastically dynamic, stylistic and abstract, making clever use of colour-bomb palettes. Read more
The Plus One t shirt by New York designer Ryan Sullivan is printed by hand, one at a time, using a dye-based print and printed on cotton/poly blend tees. Size is true to fit.
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