August 11th, 2010
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Jan Otto Schreiber, a photographer from Hamburg, Germany, decided to explore Australia last year. He traveled by cargo ship for two months, traveling on the Panama Canal, and in that time documented his surroundings with over 250 different shots of islands, ships, and the sea. He spent weeks editing the proofs of his documentation, and ended up with 14 dreamy images.

This series is titled: Somewhere Between the Shores. A yellow-tinged, pale collection of photographs that mimics the experience of quiet nostalgia, the subtle stillness of the ocean, and the mystery inside moving silhouettes.

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August 11th, 2010
by Bill

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Employing concrete barriers, make-shift housing and check points, Amze Emmons uses the architecture of refugees to paint urban disaster.  His grim imagery is mismatched by a cheerful palette, creating the impression of Martha Stewart going wild with pastels in a war-torn camp.  Emmons puts it dryly: “I’m interested in how strife, climate change, disasters and global migration effect the way folks live and the types of environments they build.”

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August 11th, 2010
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Moritz Resl is a graphic designer based in Vienna, Austria. A smart designer with a minimalistic style, Moritz does not pollute his work with a number of narrative imagery all sharing one composition and message. Instead, he communicates the concept of his work by creating just a single, simple image. For instance, based on this year’s World Cup event, Moritz created a poster featuring an impression of a torch (edit: vuvuzela! Even better! Thanks for noticing the error guys) by combining various world continents together, all sitting in a sea of blue. Smart, well-articulated, and aesthetically sound.

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August 11th, 2010
by Bill

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Headed over to Wes Lang’s Brooklyn studio on Friday.  Daylight filtered in from the street over walls resplendent with tattoo flash, hand-painted jackets, flags, and pics of beautiful women.  Amazing paintings are everywhere you look.  The first thing I said was “there’s a lot of nice tits on the wall.”  Wes relaxed visibly and replied, “everybody likes tits, they’re calming.”  That broke the ice.  His new work emerged after losing several friends in the last year, and goes in a different direction from his well-known and controversial Americana work.  It’s being shipped off this week to Galleri Brandstrup in Olso Norway.

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August 11th, 2010
by Intern

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Lauren Utter, a New Jersey native, documents her punk rock inspired, pan-handling, train-hopping adventure filled life through her aggressive yet delicately drafted drawings. Lauren briefly attended the School of Visual Arts, but decided that her experiences outside of the institution’s walls were what truly inspired her.

Every little mark on the surface is stark, rigid, and untamed. Lauren isn’t interested in dressing up her subject for the purpose of comfort or aesthetic. She wants to bring to the audience her encounters exactly as how she found it. Yet upon closer inspection, you are guided to notice the underlying beauty, and appreciate the aggressive approach of Lauren’s work. This is where the irony in her work is present. It is the moment, confrontation, and/ or eye contact captured. The kind of transient situation most of us rarely have the time or guts to pay closer attention to.

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August 10th, 2010
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French Illustrator Julien Pacaud is delightfuly eccentric; her works look as if they’ve been dreamed up by children after feasting on their yearly spoils of Halloween candy. (What? Your parents didn’t tell you sugar would give you nightmares?) I would be lying if I told you I had any idea what this soccer-chicken picture means, but I still find it incredibly amusing.

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August 10th, 2010
by Intern

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Dora Budor and Maja Cule are a Siamese twin design/ artist duo based in Brooklyn, NY. Both artists originated from Eastern Europe where they had first met at a speed-dating event. Though they were both endeared to each other (Dora, with her impressive knowledge of creating origami salt and pepper shaker holders, and Maja, with her understanding ofthe meaning of life), the two did not work with each other until they were reunited in design school.

Upon first glance, Dora and Maja’s paintings, drawings, and installations are attention grabbing, with their sporadic placements of perverse imagery, raw design, and a whole lot of humor. They use these characteristics to articulately communicate concepts as sweet as a love letter poster to their boyfriend, to serious matters, such as the national addiction to prescription drugs and immigration issues. And although Dora and Maja are each their own individuals, when combined, their work is crafted into one harmonious stream of eccentrically inspiring consciousness.

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August 10th, 2010
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Jerome Abramovitch has incredible attention to detail: the digital manipulation of his photos is nearly seamless. In his “Mannequin” series, he took photos of both live models and plastic mannequins before digitally meshing them together to form amazingly real-looking human-plastic hybrids. More and more, photographers are finding their creative voices in post production – so exciting!

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