I’m pretty excited about Tim Burton’s upcoming MOMA exhibit (I love his aesthetic sensibilities). The museum has released a new promo video:
The exhibit begins November 22nd and runs through April 26th.
Anyone else plan on going?
Tag: art
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Audrey Flack’s work makes me feel like my eyeballs have just had an invigorating massage. Let’s start with some of her gorgeous still life dye transfer photographs (this is definitely a technique I have to explore further due to its incredible richness and depth).
Perhaps I love her work because she uses the kind of subject matter that clutters the surfaces of my own home. These are very reminiscent of my own collections…
She also does photo-realistic painting. I want to either eat or play with everything she paints…
Mmmm…shiny things…
Last but not least, we have sculpture.
See more of her lovely work here.
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Tom Deininger’s art and sculptures made from “recycled” items are impressive. Take for example, this bunny made of unraveled cigarette filters:
And another cigarette creation:
Here is an American flag, constructed of kitschy found objects. Cultural commentary, perhaps?
Found object color fade:
And one of my very favorites, where “a light box was built to illuminate a butterfly made from chainstore plastic bags. Sale stickers were used to block out light and caution tape to create a background.”
See more here.
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I would love a chance to view the Victorian Blood Book in person at the University of Texas. This decoupage project was assembled from hundreds of engravings, accented by red India ink.
View the slideshow and hear descriptive commentary here.
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Let’s usher in the day with some of Mike Soz’s perfectly themed art.
This one? Craft project inspiration, all the way!
If I’ve ever said I want to “steal a man’s heart”…this is exactly what I meant (kidding, kidding…or am I?)
See more on his site.
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Covers of The New Yorker can sometimes be quite clever, but my favorite in recent history is Chris Ware’s Halloween cover. I was chuckling sarcastically as soon as I pulled this out of my mailbox.
Poignant little commentary, no?
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Haunt Style just posted this fantastic image from SHIH-MAO.
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Although there are numerous types of work on Martin Sobey’s site, I’m really enamored with what he’s done to city cracks and crevices.
It’s so easy to tune out while walking in a city, and resign oneself to simply getting through the harsh gray pavement and elements of decay.
I would be thrilled to pass one of Sobey’s projects; bursts of vibrant color and life seeping through the cracks…as if there’s an intensely rich world beneath. These designs are a reversal of all expectations.
I appreciate how the blasts of color encourage people to look beyond the facade of mundane appearances.
See more here.
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Brian Smith makes fantastic surreal oil paintings, delightfully dark. The first two are from a Painting-a-Day series (done on 5X7″ panels, selling for $100 each).
And here are a few other recent works:
I love all the melting, pulling and swirling sensations in these paintings, as if the subjects and their surroundings are a single (often tortured) entity.
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William Basso’s art is the perfect way to usher in the month of October. I can’t put my impressions to words as well as Basso does in his artist statement, so I’ll simply share some of that.
In a lonely field of dry grasses under an overcast sky, sits an abandoned theater where puppets, props and painted backdrops are quietly waiting with peeling paint and thick dust.
My work is a combination of various artistic disciplines including drawing, sculpture, photography, collage and painting. Used together, these allow me to create images of mystery, wonder, delight, sorrow and fear, which often take place in intimate stage-like settings.
The characters in my work exist in a distant, half-remembered, autumnal place where even Halloween can last forever. Images emerge through a cross-referencing of many artistic influences, memories and ideas. Ancient and flickering, monochrome films of the fantastic and macabre play continuously, running through rusted projectors.
Long, silent corridors are hung with varnished, cracked paintings and brittle prints from another age, while rows of tall, wooden cabinets display bones and other arcane specimens behind panes of ancient glass.
Up in a darkened attic, an antique trunk contains time worn books and comics, richly illustrated. It is here in this world of my subconscious that a childlike sense of fantasy and imagination can mingle with adult anxieties or dreams.
See more here.
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