During his semester abroad in London, Brazilian student and artist Gabriel Nardelli Araujo was searching for a way to document his sojourn in a way that combined his passions for architecture, photography and travel. With that in mind, the “Canvas Project” was born— a series of digital collages that transposes figures from classical...
When it comes to painting mediums, pastel often gets the short end of the stick (brush?): it’s fickle, messy and ephemeral. But it’s also one of the dreamiest, forgiving, workable and inspiring. Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis has an exhibition of his pastel abstract paintings currently up at The Breeder gallery in Athens. The series...
You know that thing everyone does when they visit the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa— where they take a photo of themselves pretending to hold it up with their hands or squish the structure between their fingers? It’s a trick as old as the Renaissance – using perspective to create some sort of artistic illusion. London-based...
Raise your hand if you’re reading this article on your smartphone. Mm hmm, that’s what I thought. And you know what? That’s not a bad thing! Smartphones have allowed us the luxury of getting our news, staying connected with friends and fulfilling our creative impulses while we’re riding the train, laying in bed and waiting in doctor’s...
Of all the myriad art mediums there are, I think it’s safe to say that ceramics is the most-often overlooked and under-appreciated. Perhaps because the foundation of ceramics is so utilitarian, the artistic merit becomes second to the functionality. Montana-based artist Steven Young Lee is turning that notion on its head, however, with his...
Nick Knight, of “Bound 2” fame (uh uh, honey), is back with a short film honoring his friend and fashion phenom, the late Alexander McQueen. Meant to serve as an add-on to Knight’s full-length 2011 tribute, To Lee, With Love, Nick, the video is a hauntingly beautiful montage of models moving in McQueen creations. The women...
Jenny Kemp’s paintings are dynamic and multi-layered; the organic shapes and earthy colors lend themselves to nature comparisons even though they’re all completely abstracted. Each painting has exactly the colors it should have in the exact right shapes – perfectly paired pastels blending together into various lines and shapes creating a...
National Geographic is known for its incredible nature photography – that’s the whole point of the magazine! So, imagine the incredible talent (and the inspiring images produced from that talent) who submitted to – and won – the magazine’s 12-week Traveler Photo Contest. First place went to photographer and SCUBA instructor...
Looking at Brooklyn-based graphic designer Victoria Siemer’s surreal nature and city-based photo manipulations is a bit of an exercise of self-discovery. Like an immediate temperature-taking of your current mood. On the one hand, her topsy-turvy natural landscapes can feel like an escape; the foggy inverted forest feels like a peaceful escape...
The Outings Project encourages people globally to go to their local museum, take a photo of an unknown figure in a painting, and set them free by posting a large-scale print out of the figure on a public wall. It gives the figure a broader audience, making it more accessible to groups that don’t normally engage with fine art. French artist...
With a modest, almost half-hearted title for her latest exhibition in Dublin, Ireland, “Recent Paintings” is a collection of Lucy Doyle’s um, most recent paintings. Doyle claims that the inspiration for this body of work – all of which is stylistically and thematically linked – is the printed cottons and textiles that emanated...
