“Set III” is composed of nine equal elements… …they fill the space, but I am not interested in the physical aspect of filling. I want the work to become an energy centre, like an atomic station. It’s the same principle again: transmitter and receiver. The receiver is the same as the transmitter, only in felt. It is a totalization. The...
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...
DON GUMMER – CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS SERIES To many, Don Gummer is simply ‘that man who accompanies Meryl Streep to premieres. Whatshisname. Thingie.’ In other words, Ms Streep’s husband. To all appearances, he’s her wingman, her support, and she has in the past been described as his ‘trophy wife.’ Yet Gummer has a name, an identity...
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...
AIA’s List of the Most Famous Portrait Photographers In this edition of AIA’s favorite series, we put together a list of the most famous portrait photographers – inspirational artists who have been lucky enough to do portrait photography for the world’s movers and shakers. Their unique talent allows them to not only...
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...
Michael Borremans’ Paintings Michael Borremans is a painter whose technique is partially indebted to the 18th century, but whose psychology of subject matter and sense of context is far more modern. He makes use of old and new discoveries, both in art as well as in other arenas, such as cinema. The French painter Degas was interested in the...
Paintings by Shani Rhys James Shani Rhys James has issues with identity. Australian born, a country she claims no one can rightfully claim as their own, she has lived in Wales for the pasty thirty years, a small celtic nation with a colourful history all of its own. The UK art scene refers to her as a Welsh artist, something she only...
Tyler Shields Photographer Tyler Shields, although still only 32, has already been compared to the incomparable Andy Warhol. The links are sometimes clear; both artists have cultivated a curious relationship with the media, with both harboring a playful fascination with the appearance of illusion. Both have an affinity with morbidity in...
