Alice's Blog Posts Tagged 'artist' (292)

Built for one of Toronto's Nuit Blanche arts festival, this stunning tower of books, by artist Tom Bendtsen, resembles a nature scene complete with ethereal clouds and a setting sun. His towers, called Conversations, are mean to push the limits of what can be done with books. In this piece, called Conversation #2, 10,000 books were arranged to act like pixels or…

You could say that Santa Barbara-based artist David Cooley only recently busted out into the art scene. (His first show was back in 2010.) Throughout the past three years, he's sharpened his skills and has honed his unique technique which involves using a small, dental instrument-type tool to create tiny "paint spikes" or dabs of paint. His mixed media pieces also consist of acrylic, spray…

Queensland, Australia-based artist Loui Jover creates striking artworks by using pen and dripping ink on pages of vintage books. While many of his pieces show the complicated emotions on a woman's face, Jover is equally adept at creating romantic love scenes of faceless silhouettes. Of course, his most powerful works are the ones where the ink drops in just the right places, at times…

Spanish artist Jaume Plensa recently unveiled a giant new sculpture called Wonderland at the base of Calgary's tallest tower, The Bow. The wire mesh piece stands 39 feet high and resembles a young girl's head. (It was actually inspired by a real girl in Spain.) Interestingly,…

Artist Josh Bryan's beautiful pen portrait of Marilyn Monroe is still one of my all-time favorite artworks of her. (How I'd love a print!) Using just black fineliner pens, which range from 0.1 mm to 1.0 mm, Bryan creates triangles of varying sizes until they resemble a…

Lithuania-based artist Ceslovas Cesnakevicius has created a whimsical set of photo manipulations that ride that fine line between art and photography. It may be hard to believe but all of his images start with photos. The 35-year-old began taking pictures over ten years ago and he claims that he…

As you may have heard, we lost a great one this weekend as American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon, passed away at age 82 due to complications from a recent heart surgery. Many fellow astronauts have been tweeting about Armstrong including Buzz Aldrin, who wrote, "I know I am joined by…

While we've now seen our share of interesting LEGO creations, we've never quite seen the plastic bricks turned into colorful messages like this. Brooklyn-based Korean artist Jaye Moon has been putting up these bright, rainbow-colored messages for New Yorkers to spot on their streets. One of them, titled “Somewhere Better Than This Place” even has a tiny door placed in the lower…

Talk about blending into the background. Photographer Wilma Hurskainen and her sister wear clothes that perfectly match their natural surroundings. Whereas we've seen this style done before, never have we seen it done so naturally,…

As part of the George Town festival, a month-long celebration of art going on in Penang, Malaysia, Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic is beautifying the city streets with his imaginative street art. Dubbed a "new Banksy" by The Wall Street…

After I first spotted the above image on DJ Stanton Warriors' Facebook page, I knew I had to learn more. (As a side note, one person cleverly called the sculpture "Speaker Henge.")

Artist Benoit Maubrey is director and founder of a Berlin-based art group called Die Audio Grippe. Mostly…

Every so often, we come across an artist who blows us away with not only their skill but their attention to detail. Today that person is Sharon Moody. What sets her oil paintings apart from the rest is their hyperrealistic nature. Moody uses an art technique called trompe l'oeil. Her paintings are so detailed that they trick us into believing that we're seeing actual…

Last week, over 1,000 people watched as artist Alexa Meade created an outdoor, interactive installation like no other. On the courtyard of Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., she painted directly onto live models who appeared to…

Alessandro Gottardo (aka Shout) just reached out to us to tell us about his new set of sweet and surreal illustrations. As we had said before, Gottardo's clever illustrations show us why a minimalist approach can go a long way in telling a story. By taking out all that's unnecessary…

If you love art that's not made by fancy computers but instead by more traditional means (like with markers, crayons, paint and pen), then you're probably already a fan of Minjae Lee. The South Korean artist is back with a few new pieces that are not only incredibly detailed but also highly emotive. To see it all come together, Lee also provided a sped up video of him creating one of…

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.

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If you've been following us here at My Modern Met, you already know about South Korean artist Do Ho Suh. He's the talented artist behind some pretty incredibe installations including one of our favorites called…

N.C. Winters is working on a long-term project called 100 Drawings where he's creating a work of art until we reaches a total of 100. Though the aim of this personal project is to get him back into drawing "every day for fun," it's turned into a wonderful place to see some stunningly surreal works. Started in late 2010, he's now completed 53 with hopes to complete the set by the end of…

What does 40,000 rockets blasting off a wall look like? Well, if you were at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles on April 7, you could answer that question. Famous Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang marked the opening of his exhibition Sky Ladder with Mystery Circle, an outdoor explosion event or what LA Times called "a massive display of light, heat…

How does one get to paint a mural inside Facebook, the social network people just can't stop talking about? A few days ago, we shared that Facebook recently put up a gorgeous new mural in their Menlo Park, California headquarters. Today, we bring you an exclusive…