New Artist - Jim Kazanjian

Surreal worlds that don't exist - and probably shouldn't. That is what Oregon artist Jim Kazanjian creates in his intriguing and oddly disturbing prints.

Jim Kazanjian has been a commercial CGI artist for the past 16 years in television and more recently in game production. He describes his work as follows: "I am interested in a kind of “entropic” image, an image that has the capacity to de-familiarize itself. My current work is an attempt to unravel the photograph and play with established notions of time, space, and the understanding of what gives things context. Through fragmentation and re-composition of the photographic space, the non-linear nature of reading the image is folded in on itself. The structure of the photograph is unwound and reshuffled. This reshaping becomes an iterative process that spurs the generation of something altogether different." (Quote from Artist-a-Day)

His minimalist website is here but I expect we'll be seeing much more of this artist soon.

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Comment by Kevin Chung on March 5, 2010 at 7:38am: I don't know what's going on here, but it is awesome.

Comment by Amy Wong on March 3, 2010 at 4:18pm: Amazing prints. Great post Mark. The last print was dizzying though. Haha!

Comment by Eugene on March 3, 2010 at 1:57pm: Very cool! Nice post!

Comment by sAm on March 3, 2010 at 1:48pm: These are amazing!!!

Comment by Jessica on March 3, 2010 at 11:37am: love all these pics, especially the house on stilts! thanks

Comment by Inka Leoni on March 3, 2010 at 9:49am: Yeah, the movement seems to go from down to up to the sides. Looks like a sun to me. I'm pretty sure I've seen images of the sun like that but in colour. In black and white it sets you off on the wrong foot, which adds perfectly to the surreal.

These images are so unsettling. Like things will self destruct when one messes around with the laws of whats supposed to be real.

I like that messed up stuff. Thanks Mark!

ah found it http://www.school-for-champions.com/astronomy/images/sun-surface.jpg

Comment by Mark Huckabee on March 3, 2010 at 9:05am: @Liam - funny that you would think that the stuff in that photo was coming down, I imagined it was going up (due to the gravity of the ball). That ball reminds me of the evil planet in The Fifth Element.

Comment by Liam Kersting on March 3, 2010 at 8:09am: These are awesome. What is that random ball supposed to be made of? Ash, garbage? It seems to be littering whatever it is over that town.

I'm also digging the house on stilts, though I don't know that I could live there. I mean, sure you've got space, but look at the location!