dana oldfather
Posted on | February 6, 2010 | 2 Comments
dana’s paintings are oil and oil and marker on canvas or board. dana oldfather was born in cleveland, ohio in 1978. she has been in exhibitions in galleries and museums across the country, including POV evolving gallery in LA, and the butler institute of american art in youngstown. check out more work at danaoldfather.com.
katrina olina
Posted on | September 7, 2009 | No Comments
katrina olina petursdottir is an icelandic designer. she is the artist behind the famous work for the crystal bar in hong kong. she does some really interesting work and has been featured in various museums and publications. check out her website and more of her work at katrin-olina.com.
miru kim’s naked city spleen
Posted on | August 25, 2009 | No Comments
interesting photography/art series by korean born and new york based artist miru kim. see more of the series on her website and check out her TED presentation about her work.
http://www.mirukim.com/
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/miru_kim_s_underground_art.html
amazing, morbid artwork by kris kuksi
Posted on | June 4, 2009 | No Comments
check out these amazingly detailed sculptures done by kris kuksi. born in 1973 in springfield missouri. growing up in kansas he spent his youth in rural seclusion and isolation along with a blue-collar, working mother, two much-older brothers and an absent father. open country, sparse trees, and alcoholic stepfather, perhaps paved the way for an individual saturated in imagination and introversion. no shit!
more sculptures, paintings and drawings by kuksi click here
200 gallon water tank landscape photography
Posted on | May 20, 2009 | No Comments
pretty cool and definitely a different kind of landscape photography. the artist kim keever’s large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water. these dioramas of fictitious environments are brought to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he quickly captures with his large-format camera.
http://www.ktfineart.com/artists/kim_keever
olafur eliasson
Posted on | April 7, 2009 | No Comments
very cool stuff. organized by the sf moma, the museum of contemporary art in chicago will open its doors for olafur eliasson’s “take your time: olafur eliasson” exhibition between may, 1 and september, 13. it is the first comprehensive survey in the usa of works by olafur eliasson, whose immersive environments, sculptures, and photographs elegantly recreate the extremes of landscape and atmosphere in his native scandinavia, while foregrounding the sensory experience of the work itself.
drawn from collections worldwide, the presentation spans over fifteen years of eliasson’s career. his constructions, at once eccentric and highly geometric, use multicolored washes, focused projections of light, mirrors, and elements such as water, stone, and moss to shift the viewer’s perception of place and self.
also, check out the website for this exhibition, like it. moma.org/…
trash art
Posted on | April 3, 2009 | No Comments
very graphic, like it. the italian artist moreno di trapani has created a unique installation in reaction to the garbage crisis in naples, italy. di trapani placed hundreds of stuffed garbage bags into an empty building in the northern city of tradate. the building facade overflows with the bags, which “ooze out of the windows and out of the doors; the garbage piles up on the balcony.”
trainloads of naples garbage (some of which had radioactivity levels eighty times the norm), collected by the italian army, have been shipped to hamburg, germany last year to be processed. love it.
let the germans process the trash.
(photo by gianpietro malosio, text partly from jennifer allen, artforum)
artless, shun kawakami
Posted on | April 1, 2009 | No Comments
pretty interesting guy this shun kawakami from japan. born 1977 in tokyo he became an artist and designer, co-founder and head of artless inc. an art and design studio that focuses mainly on graphic arts and design, interactive, installation, video and exhibition.
get lost on the artless website, pretty interesting, the site itself as well as their work – artless.co.jp
wow – eico hanamura
Posted on | March 25, 2009 | No Comments
let’s go back to the 60s for a second, across the ocean, far far away. interesting pop-art, manga, kitsch japan style illustration by artist eico hanamura. interesting personality and story, read the interview from pinmag.
martin kippenberger in moma
Posted on | March 15, 2009 | No Comments
“the problem perspective” moma exhibition features work from martin kippenberger, one of the most influential artists of our time, from march to mid may.
martin kippenberger (1953–1997) produced a complex and richly varied body of work from the mid-1970s until his untimely death in 1997 at the age of forty-four. this ambitious, large-scale exhibition includes key selections and bodies of work from his entire career: paintings, sculpture, works on paper, installations, multiples, photographs, posters, announcement cards, books, and music. the exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue—published by MOCA and co-published by the MIT Press—which will constitute a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the artist’s career.
more work by martin kippenberger
