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In his series, Alive, Andreas Preis brings to life the power that he sees embodied by each of the ten animals he has chosen to illustrate. These drawings are visually stunning and really emphasize the importance of respecting such awesome creatures.
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Mark-making as a primordial form of expression is at the very crux of my current work. Inherent in this process is the act of construction and deconstruction, a timely and repetitive ritual that brings to life layers upon layers of abstract forms, and sometimes recognizable figures drawn from memory and nostalgia.
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For her graduate degree in illustration at the San Francisco Art Institute, Lydia Ortiz decided to draw from her experience as a Filipino immigrant in the US in a book she designed. “Fresh off the Boeing” is how she describes herself in this book titled Imigrante, filled with beautiful illustrations depicting her experience using the alphabet as a point of reference.
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I’ve become fascinated by artist Zeus Bascon’s visual dreamscape. Taking his cues from the rituals of everyday life and adding colors that could only be imagined in a dream-like universe, he takes us into a world that speaks of moments: let it be of anguish, despair, reflection, conviction–all of which come from a desire to just “be”.
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I am in awe of Su Blackwell’s delicate and imaginative book sculptures. Each one brings to life a unique fantasy world that reaches out to the child in you; taking bedtime stories to a whole new level of fun.
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Goldfish are a big source of inspiration for the Japanese, but art collective Kingyobu has taken that inspiration to the next level. The group has installed goldfish tank phone booths on the streets of Osaka, making for quite the interesting sight. The cord of the phone floats about in the water, while dozens of goldfish swim around in the booth. The installations are visually intriguing, although there’s no apparent reason as to why they are there in the first place.
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Most city-slickers think of pigeons as ‘rats with wings’, but Julian Charriere and Julius von Bismarck feel differently. The two want to change people’s perception of these birds, so they spray painted some pigeons and let them loose during the 2012 Venice Biennal (without harming the birds, of course). The brightly-colored birds are quite a sight to see, but no matter what color they are, they’ll still poop on your head.
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Rashad Alakbarov is an artist from Azerbajan who creates mind-blowing light and shadow ‘paintings’ from found objects and translucent materials. His light painting is made from light projected on a wall through suspended, colorful airplanes. Alakbarov’s artwork shows an amazing attention to detail and a very active imagination.
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What a beautiful idea: building huge nests. And not only a few. Patrick Dougherty build over 230 of them over the last thirty years. By using thousands of sapling twigs, he builds these pieces of art all over the globe expressing his love of nature and his great carpentry skills. There will be a documentary about his work coming out soon, too, but for the time being, check out his book, Stickwork.
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Seattle-based artist and science illustrator, Marlin Peterson, was commissioned to paint a mural in his city. Rather than paint a standard wall mural, he chose a roof of a building right underneath the Seattle Space Needle. Using an optical illusion technique called trompe d’oeil, Peterson painted two giant daddy long-legs on the roof of a building. The monstrous bugs look as if they’re taking over the building when viewed from above, and the Space Needle makes a great location for viewing Peterson’s terrifying mural.
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Created in the courtyard of the Keserne Basel, a former miltary base, this mural demanded audience participation by asking volunteers to lay “dead” on the asphalt and let their silhouettes be illustrated for the completion of the mural.
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I’ve been familiar with Reuben Negron’s work for a number of years, but I was completely taken when I recently saw a selection of watercolors from his two most recent solo exhibitions at Like the Spice Gallery in Williamsburg.
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To be honest, the art works of Italian Nicola Samorì are a little scary. If they would be a cocktail, you would order them as: Ancient portrait with a twist. These carefully and traditional done paintings always shift in some details. And it fells like all of the sudden you can see things that belong to a parallel world.
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A little cardboard here, a gallon of black paint there, and some tape and cotton rags down here – now time to destroy and photograph these sculptures! We all need a little abstract and modernism in our lives, which Zander Blom has envisioned in his installation/photography The Drain of Progress.
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GIRL and Bunny do street-art in Perth, Western Australia. GIRL is actually a guy who drinks six energy drinks and then draws with a bunch of textas. GIRL is inspired by Rugrats, slime, Brian Chippendale, Asian girls, regrets, fluro pink, the ’90s, and Jurassic Park.
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