Marina Lie’s work reminds me of Natalie Shau (one of my all time favorites whom I’ve posted about three or four times).
Her intense, ethereal visions seems to penetrate the soul…
Tag: art
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Alexander Korzer-Robinson transforms antiquarian encyclopedias into stunning shadow boxes, as if to three dimensionally vivify the rich content between the pages.
His use of vintage materials and handpicked images is akin to the process of memory itself; simultaneously selective and reconstructive.
From the artist statement:
By using pre-existing media as a starting point, certain boundaries are set by the material, which I aim to transform through my process. Thus, an encyclopedia can become a window into an alternate world, much like lived reality becomes its alternate in remembered experience.
These books, having been stripped of their utilitarian value by the passage of time, regain new purpose. They are no longer tools to learn about the world, but rather a means to gain insight about oneself.
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Aof Smith’s is filled with wide, crooked eyes…nebulous childhood memories, amplified and distorted.
Amid the manic, twisted toys, we find real shreds of deep emotion (some pieces, not pictured here, are more somber and contemplative).
Shiny chaos…
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I recently came across a post displaying Xuan Loc Xuan’s series of Chinese zodiac paintings.
They are so fluid and gorgeously symbolic…my eyes can’t help but follow the winding paths through each piece.
Do you follow Chinese astrology? I never got into it, but know I’m the year of the sheep.
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Today I bring you the otherworldly little girls of Latyll.
I was tempted to turn this right side up for a better view, but given the signature, it seems the artist intended it to be inverted,
This was the first painting from Latyll I saw, and was caught off guard by the degree of emotion it conveys.
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I couldn’t choose which link to post…so have a bunch!
What those dead bird holiday cards I posted the other day actually mean.
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Most of the pics in this post require no comment…but don’t skip this androgynous, anthropomorphic pothead (see what I did there?). I find its lean, wiry body very disconcerting.
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If you happen to be into the presentation aspect of gift gifting, Norman’s Printery has some stunning wrapping paper.
These…ohhhh, these astronomy themes…just make me swoon.
Wrapping paper seems like a trivial thing, but it can certainly make an impression. I used to make my own fairly often. And I’ll never forget an occasion when I told a loved one about a dream of mine featuring white spiders…and soon after received a gift wrapped in custom black paper with white spiders on it.
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Hypnokitty says…you will read the entirety of this post…
I’m not sure if this was a recurring character or a one time thing, but it’s very unusual art for a motor oil ad.
The bow really makes this.
I love this kid.
I previously considered my own cats to be pretty well prepared, but I was quite mistaken.
The most projectile vomit I’ve ever seen in an antique colorized photo.
It’s funny…because it’s true.
I’m surprised this never happened to me when I was deep in my heavy metal phase.
Nature is incredible.
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I hope last night was the final Mark Ryden opening in NY I’ll ever have to miss due to health (a girl can dream!). Dodecahedron is now showing at the Paul Kasmin Gallery.
The show’s press release eloquently describes it:
The vocabulary of images in Ryden’s new body of work remains consistent with his pervasive distortion of scale and his iconic fairytale-like creatures set against seductive landscapes of untouched beauty.
However, the subject of his latest series is informed by the geometric structure “dodecahedron,” a solid figure bearing twelve sides whose perfect symmetry has been the source of extensive query by mathematicians and scientists since antiquity. Drawing upon the form’s mystery and divine connotations as a source of inspiration, Ryden explores the bridge between the physical world and the intangible realm.
Ryden’s labor-intensive canvases skillfully rework centuries of art history, combining the grandeur of Spanish and Italian religious painting with the decorative richness of Old Master compositions and the lush textures of French Neo-Classicism. Expanding on these concepts, the artist’s paintings focus on “the soul confronting its physical form” as represented by his reoccurring feminine child figure, he calls “anima” or “soul” figure.
Did anyone make it to the opening or plan to see the show in person?
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