Artist Matthew Brandt’s latest series continues his ongoing exploration of the relationship between man and nature. In this series, he created landscape photographs around Oahu that he then buried in the Earth. The decomposition and erosion of the material added new textures to the photos and reinforced its connection to the place being...
The art of landscape is given a fresh viewpoint as it collides with cubism these two things that do not normally go together every day in art. New Zealand Artist Tammie Rose Riddle is a self-taught artist influenced by early modernist traditions of painting. The use of Cubism gives depth to artwork by using multiple and contrasting viewpoints...
Creating art, in whatever form I explore, enlightens me through its process and has become an intrinsic part of who I am. I question, discuss, instigate, observe, share and discover through my work. Like a blurry off-shoot of science – artistic expression, to me, is a method of understanding and exploring our reality. -Darren Cranmer I...
Mexican born, New York-based artist Bosco Sodi produces the kind of brawny ‘earth art’ that is intended to bowl its audience over like a juggernaut. A colourist, he creates huge, weighty, expansive abstracts that are often at least five centimetres thick with paint that has crusted and congealed, a result of the methodical scientific...
The art duo, Aitch & Saddo will be displaying in August their exhibition entitled La Petite Mort Gallery. The inspiration for the slight gloomy paintings came from a rainy winter spent in a dark, moist house — it made them think of coffins. So they used the inspiration and turned it into an exhibition meant to evoke more than just a...
Kinuko Y. Craft Painting At AIA we love it when an artist lets us in on how they composed one of their pieces; and here, Kinuko Y. Craft shows us how she made, The Grail of the Summer Stars, a painting done for a novel cover. Craft, who is originally from Japan but now lives in the states, paints all sorts of things but she is perhaps best...
Have you ever seen a vegetable look dignified? Well they do in these photographs done by Lynn Karlin. The apple actually looks like it’s posing for the camera. Karlin has been a prolific fine arts photographer. She’s worked for, “Country Living, New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, House Beautiful, Coastal Living,”...
We all know the internet’s obsession with the mashup…so what would happen if you mashed fine art paintings with hip hop lyrics? Toni Potenciano and Gisella Velasco have taken on the challenge. They call it “an homage to the finer things in life: art and hip-hop”. via [mashable]
A great article in the Huff Post that pulls together quotes from famous artists on the power of inspirational art. Here’s a sampling of some of the inspirational insights…
London Art Week starts things off this weekend, so we though we’d give a glimpse of what’s on display. The event is actually the combining of two popular art events going on at the time…so there’s lots to see. Giovanni di Benedetto Bandini, called Giovanni dell’Opera (1540-99): A Seated Male Saint. Photograph:...
In this series we look at the work of Los Angeles based artist Raffi Kalenderian. If you happen to be Los Angeles too then you can check out Raffi’s paintings at, Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, located in Culver City. He paints from photographs and live models. Raffi’s featured work at the exhibition focus on subjects intently...
