Moving Times
David Thomas on abstraction
From Point, From Line.
Lee Ufan is recognized for his unconventional artistic processes which underscore the relationship between the viewer, the artwork, and the spaces they inhabit and for philosophical writings that challenge prevailing notions of artmaking with attention on spatial and temporal conditions.” As one of the foremost figures in breaking conventions as a painter, sculptor and philosopher […]
Alexandra Levasseur
“Alexandra Levasseur, in Montreal. Known for her work, that combines colored pencils on paper and experimentation with oil on wood panels. Levasseur continues her exploration of female figures in surreal and vivid landscapes, with the need to examine the relationship of the human beings with nature. ” (Widewall) “This time, Levasseur speaks about her exhibition Puzzle as representing a mind […]
Collecting fragments
Mungo Howard, “My practice revolves around wandering; collecting fragments and using my camera to sample compositions within the everyday environment. I frequently employ mediated processes such as printing and casting, and I welcome the inescapable interference of chance variation within these systems of creation. The resulting works exist ambiguously as faux relics which refer to both the formal language of abstraction and […]
Order of the urban detritus
Elizabeth Gower presented by Sutton Gallery.
Humbler Bernard Frize
Berlin-based artist Bernard Frize…
The Moiré Effect
The art of Carlos Cruz-Diez, expanding research from kinetic artist Jesus Rafael Soto.
AI Paintbrushes
Refik Anadol
SYNC
SYNC emma x zhang, 2020 – 12CM x 12CM x 11CM – Paper Clay, CD, Resin, Watercolour, LED Circuit Board, USB
RGB Mode
Robak uses programs like Photoshop, After Effects and Unity3D to create densely rendered digital worlds that riff on everyday objects.
All that good stuffs
Jesús Rafael Soto (June 5, 1923 – January 17, 2005) was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter. “I began to construct a world, telling myself that I must make use of all the elements they had set forth, but whose implications they had not fully explored”.
Quiet Place
Nicholas Law — Artist and designer from Buffalo, New York.
Shadow of a Daydream
Ghenie, born in 1977 in Romania, based in Berlin, grapples with haunting and historical subjects.
Same Same but Different
Wade Guyton, New York–based artist (b. 1972) has pioneered a groundbreaking body of work that explores our changing relationships to images and artworks through the use of common digital technologies.
Nature, Dynamic, Fragmented
Konrad Wyrebek, UK. The artist paints mostly in oil and acrylic. He usually always starts with the images he finds online. The resulting work of art interrogates the medium on different levels. From a formalist perspective, Wyrebek references the Neoplasticism of Mondrian and the Cubism of Picasso by exploring the fourth dimension in art seen […]
The Medium is the Massage
Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher, whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.
WK — Five Themes — MOMA
William Kentridge once again, i found more resources of his works in this interactive web that shows most of the films that i was very interested in, here i can also listen to his commentary on his works. This is a site that i will be revisiting again and again. Here i realised his importance […]
Eager
Eager /adj/having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy Allison Schulnik uses painting, ceramics, and hand-made, traditional animation to choreograph her subjects in compositions that embody a spirit of the macabre(theme of death), her works were compared to “the comic-grotesque visionary James Ensor” by The New York Times. + i love allison […]
Moth
MOTH is a traditionally animated, hand painted, gouache-on-paper film. It is animated mostly straight-ahead, with frames painted on paper almost daily for 14 months. The film seeded and bloomed from the simple act of a moth hitting my studio window and continues as a wandering through the primal emotions of birth, motherhood, body, nature, metamorphosis […]
Sun Xun
Sun Xun (born 1980) is one of China’s most exciting young artists, best known for his animations made up of thousands of ink paintings, charcoal drawings and woodcuts. Containing very little dialogue, these hand-made films use combinations of image, sound and text to raise questions about what we perceive as truth and explore the slippery […]
Dan Hays paints Dan Hays’s
Dan Hay, British 1966. This large landscape painting is from a series based on images the artist found on the personal website of a man also called Dan Hays who lives in Blackhawk, Colorado, USA. In addition to using appropriated images rather than creating his own landscape compositions, the digitisation and subsequent manipulations of the electronically stored images are […]
Moving Charcoal Drawings
“In considering the concept of the static drawing being animated or passing over into “another state”, William Kentridge’s animated drawings from the 1970s are still representing the type of crossover now possible, in fact inevitable, between drawings, etchings, animation and sculpture. Since 1989, he has created series of charcoal drawings towards animated films known as Drawings […]
Rituals
Selected Works 2020 by Luis Toledo Laprisamata
Way of Seeing
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series.
Man With a Movie Camera
I’m an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it.
Artist living in Harlem
— Khari Turner — the flesh and blackness
Retracing Black
Aldo Tambellini, his experimental work between creative disciplines…
Daniel Richter
Daniel Richter is a German painter whose strongly coloured, often slightly surreal paintings convey current events and art historical issues with an irreverent and energetic approach.
Imperfection
Jenny Saville’s portraitures with shifting nature of perception in the age of digital communication:
Times Zero
Sarah Sze creates organic and transitional structure and its inverse, instability, in layering of images, welcoming readers for active discovery. Suggests the matters of entropy and temporality, in the process of growth and decay.
OP ART
Bridget Riley: “stabilities and instabilities, certainties and uncertainties.” …
Abstract Browsing
Rafaël Rozendaal, producing animated abstract patterns and interactive images that explore the screen as pictorial space.
Totally Unaware
Cecily Brown is a contemporary British painter. Characterized by overt sexual imagery and an Abstract Expressionist gestural style,
Georg Baselitz
Baselitz explained this intriguing gesture as a way of testing the limits between figuration and abstraction.
Jo Davenport
“Nature is full of life and joy and I am always looking for creative ways to respond to it in paint.”
A profound loss – John Nixon
RIP — the influential Australian abstract artist, John Nixon
Leap into the Void
Yves Klein tricked the world with this iconic photograph.
Soft / Pastel / Power
Louise Zhang transfers her horror movie interest to soft / pastel colour dreaming imageries.
Nicolas Holiber
a new star from Brooklyn.
Inner Universe – Chiharu Shiota 塩田千春
Relationships between beings and the potentially eternal interdependence of consciousnesses…
Elizabeth Peyton
Peyton’s works address notions of idolatry and obsession
Rings – circles – machines
Greg Creek, Amendments. + Damien Hirst. Beautiful vibrations and soundwaves painting.
Marlene Dumas
Race and sexuality, guilt and innocence, violence and tenderness.
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