Featured Blog Posts – May 2012 Archive (213)

French photographer Eva Patikian translates her cinematic background into beautiful, dreamy moments captured on film. Each shot is like a frame taken directly out of a movie. There is a strong narrative in each image but it’s difficult to know exactly how the story might end.

Often not showing faces, Patikian’s photographs evoke emotion from her viewers. It’s easy to drift off…

Like Alex Stoddard, Kalie Garrett, Sarah Ann Loreth, or…

Austrian graphic artist and illustrator Ingrid Aspöck has created a fun solution for those annoying fingerprints that boldly make their presence known on all of the smartphones, iPads, and digital devices out there. Instead of constantly trying to wipe away the smudges to get a shiny screen, Aspöck embraces fingerprints and patterns them into adorable little stories. She says, “In…

Are you an artist who's looking looking for inspiration? Look no further. One day at the Squish Studio will get your creative juices following. Located just outside the small town of Tilting on the eastern end of Fogo Island, Squish Studio sits atop a rocky strip of coastline that could rival Italy’s western coast. The ground beneath the studio is so rocky and uneven that the southern…

In London and Berlin-based Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum's sculptural work titled Hot Spot, we are presented with a massive cage-like metallic globe radiating a crimson glow. In terms of global politics and news, a "hot spot" generally refers to an area of conflict. Hatoum's piece highlights every land mass by outlining it in a neon red light that fills the room with an overwhelming scarlet…

Berlin-based artist Bartek Elsner works with paper and cardboard to produce impeccable replicas of objects ranging from a simple boxed video cassette to a multi-textured chainsaw. While the medium in this series titled The Paper Stuff is reminiscent of Chris Gilmour's cardboard…

Designed by Andrew Bromberg of architecture firm Aedas, the Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus will connect Hong Kong to Beijing and is slated to become the largest underground high-speed rail station in the world when it is completed in 2015. The 4,628,481 sq ft facility is equipped with 15 tracks and is located centrally in Hong Kong, acting as a gateway to the city. Trains will reach…

Can you believe these colorful mesh sculptures are actually spiderwebs? Chicago native Anthony Michael Simon first discovered the artistry of the silk-producing arachnids while trekking through a forest in Korea, where he is currently based, looking for a location for his next sculptural art installation. He came across a huge spiderweb and it somehow clicked in his…

Artist Kim Adams turned this Dodge Ram van into a moving spectacle of lights! The Canadian sculptor is influenced by industrial design, architecture, and automotive design. Auto Lamp is an installation where Adams punctured the structure of the vehicle to form patterns of various sized holes swirling across all sides.

By removing pieces of the van, Adams actually creates something new…

Last year, Thomas Allen was one of 70 artists chosen to decorate the halls of two buildings - The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center and a tower of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was asked to select two books from a list of cherished children's stories and make a…

Artist Louise Saxton finds good use for all of the small bits of fabric and tulle that otherwise go to waste from various textile arts. Saxton says, “My work draws on and reinterprets the domestic-art traditions which I was surrounded with growing up - such as knitting, crochet, embroidery and quilting…My current body of work reinterprets natural history and botanical paintings, reflecting the…

At last year's Venice Art Biennale, one of the standout installations involved a full-size wax replica of Giambologna's 16th-century sculpture The Rape of the Sabine Women. Even more intriguing was that an "everyday" man wearing glasses stood facing the sculpture. Like giant candles, both slowly burned to the ground, melting minute by minute. On Fischer's website, you can find…

Artist Chen Chun-Hao finds new and sensational ways to use everyday materials. For decades, the artist used thumbtacks to create his works. In this series entitled The Way of Nailing, he switches to a different medium, a nail gun, to shoot thousands and thousands of nails into a stretched canvas. The final result is a stunning collection of recreated traditional Chinese ink…