“90 Miles of Irrigation Stripping” and “Bees and Meat” installations by Lauren Bon. (via Ace Gallery)

In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Antony Gormley has made sculpture that explores the relation of the human body to space at large, explicitly in large-scale installations like ANOTHER PLACE, DOMAIN FIELD and INSIDE AUSTRALIA and implicitly in works such as CLEARING, BREATHING ROOM and BLIND LIGHT, where the work becomes a frame through which the viewer becomes the viewed. By using his own existence as a test ground, Gormley’s work transforms a site of subjective experience into one of collective projection. Increasingly, the artist has taken his practice beyond the gallery, engaging the public in active participation, as in CLAY AND THE COLLECTIVE BODY (Helsinki) and the acclaimed ONE & OTHER commission in London’s Trafalgar Square.

” I am interested in how my paintings might operate independently from their literal figurative foundation and engage with an exploration of color, reduction of forms, and triumph of substance as imbued with meaning and metaphor, overt, and suggestive. My practice is a process encumbered by the reduction of literalness in preference of a sensual and topographical painted surface. Through this process of discovery, I hope to create work that engages with a continuously forming language of painting and representation. By drawing attention to the tangibility of the work, I introduce extra-diegetic readings, pulling the viewer from the sutures of the represented subject and inviting readings beyond the confines of the painted picture.” – Andrew Salgado

Tamara Kostianovsky Tamara Kostianovsky was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1974 and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her installations and sculptures confront the viewers with the real and grotesque nature of violence, offering a context to reflect on the vulnerability of our physical existence. Her work questions unchecked brutality while investigating the relationships between poverty, consumption, and desire, hoping to create a model of the architecture of violence. She literally cannibalizes her wardrobe into art—using the various fabrics and textures to conjure flesh, bone, gristle, and slabs of fat in life-size sculptures of livestock carcasses. The material connects our bodies with the ones in the work, bringing violent acts into a familiar realm. (via)

Check out these illustrations created by Melbourne based artist Rena Littleson a.k.a. Rena Happens. More on her website.

Thrilled to have found some new work from UK-based artist/illustrator Russ Mills (previously-blogged). Have a look.

“The photographic work aims to explore the role of the photograph as a mechanism for capturing moments or memories. Like portraits, the juxtaposition of photographing already dead beings, hints at finality that we all face. The medium and large format photographs allow for questions concerning animal/human relationships to be raised.” – Sarah Williams

Cassandra Rhodin is a Swedish fashion illustrator with clients like H&M, Nylon, Urban Outfitters and ELLE. Click here for the link.

‘Martha Mysko uses desolated materials to create restless compositions that upon close inspection are deluged in harmonious abstraction and beauty. Mysko’s work at times brings to mind a screen of a bad TV where the image flickers between reality and fantasy. Discarded electronics, lumber, furniture, and masonry are the tools of her trade. Her acquisitions distinctly become her own language; checkerboard flooring, pillows, textiles and drywall are among her materials, hand painted to create just the right environment. Her work investigates the current state of consumerism with a critical eye, but concurrently derives from and depends on it; one man gathers what another man spills. Mysko creates her own space, sometimes wall bound two-dimensional objects, other times complete environments that entrap. These constructs remind of Jessica Stockholder but Mysko, a generation later, is less entropic. Indeed her work seems incomplete without people – without us. Material objects have redefined their purpose, as individual creations full of form. A Rubik’s Cube only has one solution, but the steps to get there vary greatly.’ (via Marc Straus Gallery)

” My message is one of hope, peace, contemplation, harmony and courage, I see to transport myself and others into a sacred place, a quiet place, a nostalgic place, a combination of nostalgia and inner child helping to uproot old ways of being, denial, lostness. My girls are gentle reminders to recall the mystery of our imagination, the places we visited, the overwhelming excitement we knew as children. In doing so, and reliving some of those special memories, one can find they are reengaging with their inner child and re-experiencing something of that beautiful memory, that wonderful journey all over again.. The sense of wonderment we had as children, often disappears amidst the stress of the ordinary every day, but the only difference is that we aren’t accessing it. It lives within is still, lies buried and hidden, waiting for the moment when we just relax and let ourselves enjoy and live in the moment.” – Karin Taylor