Guy Denning is a tireless worker. He has a blog, denningdrawing.blogspot.co.uk, to which he posts a new piece of art each day. The tag-line is ‘art – social dysfunction celebrated as ritual.’ It gives you an insight into how he sees art. For him, it’s something ritualistic. It’s capable of producing something akin to religious...
Steve Tobin’s sculptures are generally inspired by nature, and the series below, entitled, Water Glass, is no different. Steven originally studied math at Tulane, then honed his art skills at the Pilchuck Glass School and the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.
Larry Poons – Contemporary Artists Series Artists simply don’t stop. Even when time catches up with them, when wisps of white hair begin to form and their friends are retiring, they keep on going. They respond in kind to Seneca’s call to arms for us to view old age as a chance to keep on working, to keep on producing. Larry Poons may...
Eric Fischl hates art fairs. ‘They’re like speed dating events,’ he says sardonically. But an artist always needs subject matter and one day figurative artist found himself asking the question; ‘what if I make the art galleries and art fairs themselves the subject matter?’ Art fairs and gallery openings make up the subject matter for...
Swoon, real name Caledonia Dance Curry, recently partook in the Djerbahood Project, a popular street art scheme that sought to project an open-air museum onto the island of Djerba, situated slightly off the coast of Tunisia. The communal project, which could be seen openly by the public, is one attuned to Swoon’s personal ideals. A street artist...
David Lynch is sixty-eight. A celebrated filmmaker, he is known for his eerie atmospheres, sinister characters, and strange, elliptic plots that often lack logic. But he is at heart a visual artist, an all-rounder who graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia back in 1966. Before he was a filmmaker he was a painter...
Irish artist, Lola Dupré does her shattered collages completely by hand, using good old fashion glues and scissors. The super talented Lola has been commissioned by Nike, New York Magazine, and Doubleday & Cartwright among others. The photo manipulations at the end of the post were done as a collaboration with photographer, Lisa Carletta.
Italian artist, Andrea Mariconti has spent most of his life teaching art, including a stint as an assistant professor at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. He was also the recipient of the UNESCO International Bioethics Art Prize in 2011. The color in Mariconti’s paintings is derived from natural materials (ash, wax, soil) –...
Oil paintings by contemporary artist, Agostino Arrivabene – who lives and works in Gradella di Pandino, Italy…
Today on AIA, we look back at some of the work of one of our favorites, Scandinavian modern artist, Simen Johan. Johan’s photography is a strange blend of inspirational surrealism – with perhaps his greatest skill being the ability to perfectly combine the realism of traditional photography with just the right amount of digital...
Modern Artist Artist, Olafur Eliasson has seemingly brought a creek into an art exhibition. Or that’s what it may look life at first glance, however it’s actually synthetic. In his work Eliasson takes on the challenge of simulating nature. In the past he’s installed a huge sun in London, some fog in Beijing, and waterfalls in...
