Shannon Finley was born in Ontario, Canada in 1974. He studied at Copper Union, New York, and received his BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. His work has been exhibited extensively, including in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Boston and San Francisco. Most recently, he held his first solo exhibition in Berlin at Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, which was accompanied by an artist book with original prints published by LUBOK Verlag. Finley currently lives and works in Berlin.

Hirsch’s work often appears as performed portraits of collective action and ritual that gives a sense of how we operate – together or as individuals – in our quest for fulfilment. He often stages situations that may at first appear to have no meaning or logic: but that through the context in which they appear, the behaviour of those involved, as the action unfolds, gradually become legible in unexpected ways. Hirsch’s first public realm commission, The Lift, appears as an elevator bursting through the pristine and seductive shopping district of Liverpool One. The Lift immediately interferes with how the space is usually moved through, and points disconcertingly to the possibility of an unknown, subterranean place. (via Liverpool Biennial)

Beautiful work from an incredibly talented Dominican artist Moises Pellerano, who is currently attending Parson’s New School of Design in New York, completing his bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. Wowzer!

‘In 2002 a group of some five hundred volunteers armed with shovels formed a line at the end of a massive, 1,600-foot sand dune and began moving the sand about four inches from its original location. This epic project, When Faith Moves Mountains (Cuando la fe mueve montañas, 2002), was completed for the Third Ibero-American Biennial of Lima in a desolate landscape just outside the Peruvian capital. The work is neither a traditional sculpture nor an earthwork, and nothing was added or built in the landscape. That the participants managed to move the dune only a small distance mattered less than the potential for mythmaking in their collective act; what was “made” then was a powerful allegory, a metaphor for human will, and an occasion for a story to be told and potentially passed on endlessly in the oral tradition. For Francis Alÿs, the transitory nature of such an action is the stuff of contemporary myth.’

I’m loving Michael Jaecks’ work. I am happy to have discovered his art.

One of the best things about having an art blog is getting to meet some super cool talented people. Eon75 (Max Ehrman) just so happens to be one of those talented people. He has one of the most exciting styles that I have come across in a while in the graff world. What you see here are his latest murals in collaboration with Ernest Doty, and Griffin one Enjoy!

Samuel Salcedo was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1975. He studied at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona in 1998. He has exhibited in various venues over the past decade throughout Spain. (Interview with Samuel Salcedo here.)

56th Studio, a multidisciplinary design studio in Bangkok, made chairs in the images of four characters from The Simpsons. Wait, where’s Maggie?

Marco Calcinaro was born in San Benedetto del Tronto (Italy) in 1971, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan in 1993. His work has been exhibited in galleries across Italy.

Marco Cianfanelli is an artist who works across the public and private realms, engaging the world in terms of systems rather than discrete objects or fenced off territories. He is constantly looking to realise art where one doesn’t expect to find it and testing the possibilities for artistic intervention in the public realm. In so doing, he has been involved in a wide range of projects involving art, architecture and public space.