Featured Blog Posts – June 2012 Archive (203)

Starting tonight, June 9, and continuing until July 7 is a new solo exhibition at LeBasse by Los Angeles artist Joshua Petker. This time, Petker steps away from his signature paintings, of brightly colored muses, with a series of more conceptual works. (You can still expect…

We got in touch with Tom Fruin, the talented artist behind that beautiful watertower currently up in Brooklyn, to ask him some questions about the stunning public project. Read that brief Q&A below.

Why do you choose to work with scavenged, reclaimed, and recycled…

Currently showing in the Stencil Bastards exhibition at Starkart, Zurich is BTOY, an artist duo composed of Andrea Michaelsson and Ilia Mayer. Take one look at the work of the female face of the artist collective and you'll notice a glamorous side to stencil graffiti that you may have never seen before. Andrea…

Multidisciplinary artist Tomek Sętowski has his own brand of surrealism known as "magical realism." The Polish painter practices the traditional style of oil on canvas but produces remarkably unordinary works. There's something highly mythological about his style that is clearly fantasy-driven. The circus of characters in Sętowski's creations each embrace their unique spirit of…

Pressing your face against the surface of the copy machine to get a funny black and white self-portrait, though probably frowned upon, is sometimes a tempting activity when working in a corporate office. Recently, Brooklyn-based photographer Henry Hargreaves decided to take that idea into the world of fashion and captured a series of images using just the bed of a scanner.…

After the overwhelmingly positive response we received from sinking sculpture illusions, I decided to put together this compilation post of another art trend I've been noticing. They seem to be popping up everywhere, mirrored sculptures and installations…

Italy-based digital artist Victor Faretina, aka Neko-Vi, finds inspiration from popular websites like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Facebook and reinterprets their visual aesthetic into evening gowns in his series titled Web in Vogue. The 19-year-old fashion designer-in-the-making does an excellent job of taking the essence of each internet domain's purpose and community to…

Photographer John Clang puts a new twist on capturing family portraits. Taking into account the number of families that live separately in different countries, like the New York-based visual artist himself whose family resides in Singapore, Clang decided to digitally adjoin relatives in one hi-tech family portrait. The photo series entitled Being Together places people against a blank…

Sculptor David Oliveira wrote to us to tell us about his very interesting wire sculptures. At first glance, it seems as though someone has just scribbled ink drawings on top of existing photos. In reality, the Lisbon-born artist who has a degree in Sculpture and a Masters in Artistic Anatomy from the Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts, twists and turns wire until he…

Brooklyn-based Alyson Shotz creates artworks that bring to life the invisible forces of nature. One of her installations at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, called Geometry of Light, is composed of hand-cut plastic Fresnel lenses (a type of lens originally developed for lighthouses) interspersed…

It's confusing to see someone mowing a lawn inside the arches of a cathedral, but that is what's happening inside of York Minster, the largest gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. 2012 marks Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, which commemorates her 60 years on the throne. Throughout the year, the country has planned a variety of events to celebrate this special occasion. One…

These trippy, electric bursts of color are such a great way to kick off a Friday. Aqueous Electreau is a series by British photographer Mark Mawson. The artist specializes in photographing people underwater and, in the past few years, has started to master his experimentations with vibrant underwater liquids. Mawson's inspiration came from watching milk being poured into cups of…

Redditor jennyleighb submitted a series of photographs of an awesome Super Mario Bros.-inspired fish tank. Apparently, her roommate transformed a 55-gallon aquarium into a geekcentric stage for some marine pets using LEGO blocks and some artistic ingenuity. If only those…

Renowned author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, most notable for his popular children's book Where the Wild Things Are, left his creative mark on society that embraced individuality and an appreciation for an active imagination, before he passed away last month. His passing affected many who grew up with his creative cast of characters through childhood and his newly…

In their quest to win the rights to host the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund, Germany picked Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) to represent their county and to design a proposal for a sustainable headquarters in Bonn.

With a design inspired by the beautiful setting in the Rhine valley, the three level structure will comply with the latest energy and building ecology standards,…

Whether she's constructing portraits out of socks and sunflower seeds or painting with…

3D modeler and graphic designer Chiara Biancheri enjoys working with fractal software to compose these ethereal creations. She combines her interest in fractal art, a form of digital art that uses calculations to create a mathematically-based image, with her love of floral design. She says, “I’ve been recently focusing on three dimensional flames, with a 'photographic' approach and…

What have the little people been up to? Luxury brand Louis Vuitton recently partnered with Paris-based photographer Vincent Bousserez to create this whimsical set of photos. Bousserez, who we first came across over three years ago, doesn't disappoint, taking his artwork to…

Like artist Scott Campbell, Rodrigo Torres sees paper currency differently than most people. He doesn't see it as a negotiable instrument, a way to buy necessities or luxuries. He sees it as something to cut into, an incredible art form in the making.

Art Basel (the…

Playing with your food seems to be the theme of the day today! We’ve seen Boguslaw Sliwinski’s ceramic designs before and this time he takes us on new food adventures with these sports-themed plates. The Polish designer creates his ceramic…