Claire's Blog Posts Tagged 'art' (58)

This Saturday, December 17th, Sylvia Ji will open a new solo exhibition called Gilded Roses at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California. It will feature twelve of Sylvia Ji's new paintings with her signature palette of reds and bright crimsons. These paintings were inspired by western European costume designs and modern culture, therefore they are full of all kinds of…

It isn't uncommon to have moments of wishful thinking and feelings of escape. In his photography, Brice Portolano captures subjects as they embody these feelings of wonderment and longing, as if questioning what it would like be like to be someone else. These powerful photographs by Paris-based, Potolano represent the curiosity and longing that exists within each and every one of us, forcing us to…

It sure is a great time to be a Muppet's fan. With the release of the new movie, there have been tons of awesome Muppets related items popping up - from those hilarious Muppet cake pops and the funny…

More Muppets goodness! To celebrate Jim Henson, most well-known for creating the Muppets and working on Sesame Street, Nucleus has invited over 30 artists to contribute…

Come a little closer to really see what these weapons are made of. Brighton-based designer, Kyle Bean specializes in hand-crafted models, set design and art direction. His recent work, Harmless Weapons, which he created for an article in CUT Magazine, is about yarn bombing and guerilla gardening. It's simple yet…

Prisma1666 is a beautiful, interactive installation by Super Nature Design and Wonwei that was inspired by Sir Isaac Newton's famous optics and color theory experiments done in the year 1666. The installation consists of 15 triangular crystal blocks that are randomly placed on a clean white surface. A projection of bright colorful graphics is refracted and dispersed by…

While a house taken over by ants usually leads to loud screaming and plans to immediately call an exterminator, the fiberglass ants covering the facade of the National Congress building in Botoga actually beckons viewers to come closer and take a better look.



Artist Rafael Gomez Barros covered the building with 1,300 large fiberglass ants as a symbol: the ants…

What a strangely interesting sight! To celebrate internationally-known milliner Hirata Akio’s 70 years of work, Nendo (the same Japanese design studio that created a unique rock-climbing exhibit) designed an exhibition that consists of more than 4,000 hats. However, not all of the hats were…

Korean artist Duck-Bong Kang has created sculptures that look as though they are in motion by putting together multiple cuts of PVC pipe and then covering them in a thick shellac of urethane paint.

The figures in Kang's sculptures are an exploration of human relationships and communication. According to Kang, holes ignite curiosity within people because, regardless of age…

What a peculiar looking space! Sitting just outside of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) is the Bloomberg Pavilion created by Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata. While the structure is captivating with its stark white color and protruding isosceles triangles, it's not meant as just an intriguing piece of art. The museum also plans to use it for events and performances by young Japanese…

In his ongoing series Tree, Line, Zander Olsen has constructed intriguing scenes where trees are wrapped in white material. These photographs were taken in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales. Olsen attempts to create a new line of horizon - one that is not made by the camera but by the stark white material on the trees.

Wrapped around, the white material lines up with either…

Daniel Danger, an illustrator and printmaker working out of New England, hopes that his work will attempt to "remind you of something you may have said to someone, or something someone may have said to you; back in that time period thats just too far away to remember clearly, but not so long ago you forgot about it completely."

While Danger's paintings are very dark and…

For West Collect's Annual Artist Competition, Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard Typewriter to invent what he calls a Chromatic Typewriter. The typewriter began as a concept, but as he was replacing the letters on the keys with colors, his curiosity got the best of him and he decided to actually try it out. Not only does the Chromatic Typewriter really work, but…

28-year-old artist Timm Schneider brings life to the town of Weisbaden, Germany by putting googly eyes on everyday objects on the street. He calls the series They Live and his technique is very simple. He creates eyeballs using either ping-pong balls or styrofoam balls and strategically places them on otherwise boring and overlooked objects such as toilets, poles and…

Pamela Campagna and Thomas Scheiderbauer's thread and nail portraits remind me of the rubberband and pegboard games from kindergarten. But these portraits are in no way child's play. In fact, the intricate details of these portraits take a lot of skill and time to complete. (From start to finish, each piece takes approximately a month.) The designer duo, who are also husband and wife, use…

Inspired by last year's National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., Tom Price has created his own cherry trees using polypropylene pipe and nylon cables. Price heated the plastic tubing, which allowed the material to conform to his liking. Next, he used the cables to tie the tubing…

Matthew Brodie's dresses for the March 2011 issue of Madame Magazine features dresses made out of a very interesting medium..paper! These pieces truly bring out the extravagant and vibrant qualities of such a plain material. The dresses are not only breathtaking but flawless, representing creativity and thinking that's outside-of-the-box. Rather than using paper in a boring way,…

Is there anything peculiar about this photograph? If you look hard enough you may notice that standing in front of all those fresh vegetables is actually a man! You may have heard about artist Liu Bolin. If not, it's probably because he's always camouflaged. Working with a team, Bolin has seamlessly blended himself amongst many different backgrounds including…