‘Beyond Infinity‘, a multisensory installation by French artist and theorist Serge Salat, interweaves mirrors, light, music, and fractal art in an architecture that conflates visitors’ perceptions of space.
Beautiful lifelike paintings of Dravidian women involved in different household activities by Elayaraja. These paintings were inspired by real life characters as Elayaraja first photographed them before depicting them on canvas.
Jean-Francois Lepage [born in Paris, France] is a French photographer. Lepage began his photographic career in Paris in 1980. His early editorial work was featured in magazines such as Marie-Claire and Condé Nast Publications in Italy. Since 1980, Jean-François Lepage has undertaken campaigns for Comme des Garcons, Jil Sander, Lanvin, Masaki Matsushima, Nina Ricci and Shu Uemura, his work was published in many international magazines such as Amica Italia, Another Magazine [Man], Common and Sense, Harper’s Bazaar, Numero, Purple Magazine and Vogue. In 2009 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, the French fashion association ANDAM gave Jean-François Lepage free rein to interpret the vision of the fashion awards prize winners, Martin Margiela, Viktor & Rolf, Jeremy Scott and Gareth Pugh…, publishing a photography essay of the model Hannelore Knuts in the book “Modernes”: 20 years of contemporary fashion. Jean-Francois has three children Vincent, Nuage and Norma, he lives in Paris.
Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul, Korea) received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in sculpture from Yale University. Interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestations, Do Ho Suh constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity. His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity.
A native of France, born of Italian parents, Liz Brizzi grew up in Los Angeles. Inspired by urban themes, she loves to portray the beauty she captures in the raw, desolate and industrial aspects of cities and their outskirts. Her unique mixed media technique begins with the manipulation of her original photography collaged onto acrylic painted wood panels, finally blended within layers of colorful acrylic washes. She began this series of works with landscape paintings of the streets and alleys of Downtown L.A. A city that is currently changing and developing rapidly, her artwork captured its authenticity and some of the disappearing traces of its History. Her more current work is less lifelike, as she utilizes various architectural details found in her photos to create more complex graphics, structures and imaginary landscapes, while using shapes reminiscent of street art found in the very same cities she photographs. Liz graduated in 2002 from Otis Art Institute with a BFA in Illustration and now works as a graphic artist from her studio in Downtown Los Angeles. She is now represented by galleries such as Thinkspace in Culver City, C.A.V.E Gallery in Venice, and Wide Painting in Paris.
‘Doug Bloodworth’s artistic perspective is influenced by childhood affection for American western classics and the quintessential youth of the American dream. A combination of Pop Art, photography and textural paint strokes, his work was born from inspirations that began when he was a boy, and have grown into the refined craft of photorealism.’
Javier Aguilera’s sculpture is narrative. He explains us a story since the characters performed in a deliberate way. His sculptures are also realistic, mixing traditional techniques like ceramics with contemporary materials like polychrome resins. His works sometimes contain actual handmade elements, dolls or wigs as complements to represent a frozen moment, mixing fiction with reality. His subject shows us human feelings and attitudes from the most dramatic to the most playful ones or even both of them. It also shows us the way these feelings and attitudes are represented in the modern popular iconography. Manga, movie or video game characters are mixed with references to plastic artists, treating them as equals and contextualizing them into an ironic and cruel, funny and brutal world. It is a view of contemporary attitudes and the perplexity of modern people. Aguilera represents daily and immediate things as well as the most popular and mainstream by committed sculptures. Aguilera uses the aesthetics of the popular Japanese plays from our western point of view. We have gone from the absurd caricature of a Japanese made by Mickey Rooney in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” of Blake Edwards to teenagers trying to imitate the Japanese aesthetics. He makes a hyperbolic representation of contemporary people by Manga. (via Gallery Poulsen)
Metalmorphosis is a stainless steel water fountain sculpture by Czech Republic artist David Cerny. It is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. ‘The piece consists of multiple plates that rotate intermittently to create a three-dimensional human head that dispenses water from its mouth into a large fountain base. The construction of the sculpture utilized approximately 14 tons of stainless steel and features a custom-written program that controls the embedded motors within the structure.’
I was checking some old bookmarks and found sculptor Jamie Salmon. It’s LOVE all over again. Jamie is a British born, self taught contemporary sculptor, living and working in Vancouver, Canada. He runs his studio Avatar Sculpture Works in Vancouver along with his wife Jackie K. Seo.
This wonderful motorcycle made from lobster shells was created by Taiwanese chef and food carving extraordinaire Huang Mingbo at a seminar on cooking art in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. Incredible.
