Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada’s most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of over fifty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.
I stumbled upon Greek artist Christina Papagianni‘s DeviantArt page, and I was immediately impressed with her watercolor work.
Louis Fortier lives in Montréal. He received his BFA from Université Laval in Québec and he completed his MFA in 1994 at Université du Québec à Montréal. He has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions throughout Québec, namely at Galerie B-312, Plein Sud, Clark, Axenéo7, la chambre blanche and l’Œil de Poisson. In 2007 he was in the exhibition La tête au ventre curated by Mathieu Beauséjour presented at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, as well as Hot Wax at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St.John’s, NL (curated by Andria Hickey). In 2008/2009 he was featured in It happened in your neighbourhoud: Contemporary Art in Québec, curated by Nathalie de Blois at the Musée du Québec.
‘ Seungchun Lim (b. 1973, Korea) creates figurative sculptures that appear as psychological portraits. Sensitively rendered, each work includes fantastic elements, such as an extra eye, or a cluster of houses atop a head, or oddness of scale, that take the viewer beyond the literal into the subject’s state of mind.’
Carved Ak-47 Money Clip by Mathmatiks, an independent creative design studio that develops jewelry, art, and interior multimedia design for today’s savvy urban consumer market.
Huge vertical louvres give a pleated appearance to this family house in Kyoto by FujiwaraMuro Architects. Link here.
Artist Andy Hixon (blogged) updates his website with some fresh illustrations. Check it out guys. Worth a look.
Cyclops turns your iPad into a terrifying and huggable monster. Use our mouth image as wallpaper, or make your own! His hands are made of microfiber to clean your iPad screen, and he’s padded on the back for extra protection. Buy here.
Here’s another hyper-realistic silicone sculpture from multidisciplinary artist Patricia Piccinini. Her attention to detail and passion for her craft have always impressed me. She’s one of the best!
