You may remember an artist we posted about last year named Iepe Rubingh. The Merry-Prankster/World-Champion Chess Boxer has struck again with his Painting Reality series. This time, the intersection is in São Paulo, Brazil. The concept behind Painting Reality is to simultaneously dump...
Francesca Woodman
posted by sharkweek
Francesca Woodman was a talented photographer whose life and career were cut short at a young age. Her work is powerful and evocative while remaining simple. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has organized the first ever comprehensive show of her work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Woodman was born in 1958 and began photography at the very young age of 13. She attended art school in Rhode Island and Rome in the 70′s. Her style, as it developed, often consisted of self-portraits that explore her own form. After school, she moved to New York City where she attempted to work in the field of fashion photography. She...
Steve Wheen Is Plant...
posted by sharkweek
Steve Wheen is a gardener, but his London neighborhood has no gardens. Instead, it has potholes. So Steve Wheen makes due with what he’s got. Inspired by the act of Guerilla Gardening (planting gardens in public spaces without permission), he has decided to fill the potholes in London...
Olek Is Crocheting O...
posted by sharkweek
Olek is a Polish-born artist who resides in London where she is most well-known for her crochet work. Using her trademark colorful camouflage pattern, she will cover anything in sight with a net of crocheted fabric. She attacks everything from the Wall Street Bull in New York City to her...
Noemi Goudal’s...
posted by sharkweek
Noemi Goudal is a London-based photographer and master of deception. Her photographs depict landscapes that are most often run-down or generally mundane. The catch is, she puts a gateway into a new, more ethereal location in the middle of the landscape, using blown-up photographs. Her work...
Kathryn Carr’s Fantastical Magical Paper Wor...
posted by Kat Bein
Sometimes in art, the simplest methods create the most striking images, and although “simple” is not the first word that comes to mind when viewing Kathryn Carr‘s paper cuttings, her basic methods leave us with images we can’t get out of our heads. Since 2008, Carr has been turning black sheets of paper into fantasy-scapes straight from the story book in her mind. Inspired by the German paper cutting artist Scherenschnitte, her work embodies the playful mystery of old fairy tales and far away imaginary lands. And she’s totally self-taught. “I turned my attention to this art form because I was drawn to the...
Who is Hanksy?
posted by sharkweek
Banksy is an enigmatic name that has become synonymous with street art. His work is provocative and usually holds some sort of witty meaning or political statement. Banksy has entered a new level of public-consciousness with his film Exit Through The Gift Shop. Banksy has mastered a rather...
United Visual Artist...
posted by sharkweek
Using light as an artistic medium sounds simple enough. Almost every artist considers light when approaching their work. The London-based art and design practice, United Visual Artists, takes it a couple steps further. They create, manipulate and invite you to play with light. UVA melds...
Love Yer Brain. Flam...
posted by sharkweek
To call Wayne Coyne a modern day renaissance man wouldn’t properly convey the scope of what he does. First and foremost, he is the lead singer of the psychedelic freakout band The Flaming Lips. For years he has silkscreened multi-colored freaky posters for their shows. Often times he...
Anastassia EliasR...
posted by Jordan
Anastassia Elias is an artist/illustrator from Paris working her way through our discarded toilet paper rolls. So instead of using that brown useless roll for one last wipe, try cutting it up and creating your own little Charmin...
Glass Art From Aroun...
posted by Gaard
And here, because nobody asked, is an assortment of glass art pieces from various artists all over the world. Enjoy, and try not to resent your light bulbs and eye wear afterward.
Erika “iri5...
posted by Gaard
Atlanta-based artist Erika Iris Simmons (aka iri5) has found new uses for cassette and VHS tapes. Her artwork recreates iconic images using found and donated materials, and breathes life into an otherwise dead medium. These arrangements of rock stars rendered in tape are from Simmons...
Kumi Yamashita, Tim ...
posted by Gaard
As a kid, I used to love it when my dad would make hand shadow puppets against a wall with a flashlight. Sometimes he would make a dog or a dinosaur, or maybe if he were really stoned, he would just hold up his hands to make some featureless creature with a huge gaping mouth that was always...
Nick Cave’s Am...
posted by Gaard
I don’t profess to know a lot about fashion, but I do know being cloaked head to toe with a pelt of dyed human hair is fucking swagger. It really assaults the senses on so many levels, and leaves me wondering when the fuck human hair is going to go vogue. I swear to god I hope we’re all...