Archive for February, 2009
castoff complex.
pre-apocalyptic gloom.
dystopian buildings.
apparently abandoned. ____________________________________ GLOOMSVILLE.
possibly condemned.
totally defunct.
With images borrowed and photographs from his surroundings, David Trautrimas create work with a familiar yet unsettling existence. Shifting scales and positions, Trautrimas’s images range from waffle iron apartment buildings to oil container homes, all incorporating the signifiers of our local and regional lives. Canada Post boxes become [...]
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Tags: artist, daily objects, david trautrimas, digital print, living spaces, toronto
party monster.
BLOOD
Nature is beautiful,
but it is not necessarily nice.
And humans are the most vicious, selfish
and destructive presence in the natural world.
we simultaneously maintain a romantic
and inaccurate image of the
natural world and our
place within it.
SUCKER
In her meticulously crafted color pencil drawings, Manhattan-based artist Aurel Schmidt brings us back [...]
Filed under: art, illustration | 1 Comment
Tags: aurel schmidt, canadian, deitch, detail, fine, illustration, natural decay, new york, romanticism
the beast is near.
With books that have title like Ants Have Sex in Your Beer, Blanket of Filth, Kill Your Pets, and Evil Thoughts you know Shrigley is totally bad ass. Shrigley finds humour in flat depictions of the inconsequential, the unavailing and the bizarre – he is keen on violent and totally twisted subject matter.
Shrigley’s work has [...]
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Tags: illustration, drawing, david shrigley, text, line, form
face your pockets. part 2.
whatever you may put in your pockets,
whether it be pills or electrical sockets,
there’s a project where can scan your art,
and never let the memory part.
i’ve posted about this project a little over a year ago, but i recently checked the site again and there are quite a few new images of people around the world [...]
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Tags: art, collaboration, internet, pockets, scan your face, scanner
erotic analog.
just like an unsuspecting butterfly being batted into the jetty’s of chaos by the likes of a fearsome kitty cat, analog photography is becoming less prevalent in the days of a digital lifestyle. a lifestyle where information is available at the push of a button, images distributed at the drop of a dime. now don’t [...]
Filed under: art, composition, photography | 2 Comments
Tags: 35mm, analog, chair sex, erotic, fridge, life, mushrooms, pentax, photography
