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Talent You Should Know: Jim Hodges

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Untitled, 2011.

Granite, stainless steel and lacquer. 75 x 248 x 301 inches installed.

Jim Hodges.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talent You Should Know : Oleg Dou

 

 

 

 Oleg Dou

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Superjesus

 

 

Prove it didn't happen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Bill Durgin

 

Bill Durgin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talent You Should Know : Eily O'Connell

 

 

 

Eily O'Connell is an award winning, contemporary jewellery artist based in Ireland who composes beautiful creations with eerie undertones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

War On Terrorism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Netflix This : Waste Land

 

Artist Vik Muniz joins creative forces with Brazil's catadores––garbage pickers who mine treasure from the world's largest landfill, Rio's enormous Jardim Gramacho.

With touching empathy, Muniz then creates portraits of them from the very trash they collect for him (see above.)

In this oak-leaf-clustered documentary the catadores reveal themselves to be unique and surprising individuals in their own right, waxing philosophical as they impart valuable lessons about what society discards.

I might rattle on here about discovery of self and the dignity of labor, but I shall resist.

Movie blurb: 'What happens in the world's lagest trash city will transform you.'

Yeah, it will. Have I lied to you before?

 

Trailer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talent You Should Know : Robert J. Lang

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Robert Lang is taking origami to new levels of complexity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talent You Should Know : Robert Gligorov

 

 

Dollar Note by Robert Gligorov. 2006-07.

Installation, mixed media: piano, glass birdhouse, canaries, bird food. And, presumably, bird poop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talent You Should Know : Arno Fabre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Pigeons

 

'The Myth of Order #1', 2010, by Kader Attia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fractals In Motion

 

Mesmerizing video of a fractal landscape in motion.

Friends, this is what the 4th dimension looks like.

Treat yourself. Watch it full screen.

 

Fractals In Motion

 

And below, fractals occuring in nature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peg O' The Day : Naked Mona Lisa

 

Three enigmatic smiles.

So, how did they do it?

Answers please.

 

Talent You Should Know : Rafael Rozendall

Here's an idea: Let's treat the web window as a creative opportunity to be explored and not just a place to sell crap stuff.

You will enjoy the single serving web pages created by digital artist Rafael Rozendall.

Thank you Rafael.

Tape Installation

 

Talent You Should Know : Ian Cumberland

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If you're thinking of having your portrait painted you might consider the gritty realism of Belfast native Ian Cumberland.

His work has shown at the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Artist Statement: I don't have a lot to say about this painting apart from it came about from pure chance. It is what it is, nothing more and nothing less.

Paint Me

Shaker Art

 

Art from another era. Heck, another planet.

Talent You Should Know : Bruno Schmeltz

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More Bruno

VW Art

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Photo © 2008 Guzman

Talent You Should Know : Andrew Ohanesian

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Andrew Ohanesian is a Brooklyn-based installation artist who builds an entire house inside a gallery, then destroys it. Really.

His walk-through installations can be seen on his just-launched website above. (It's a drag.)

[Pixels by Household Name. Development by Jerome Gipe at Slickerhat.]