Londoner Tyler Vipond’s work plays mostly with space and depth created out of formerly 2D surfaces. Bridging the space between sculpture and painting, his work leaves you with a feeling of tension and intricacy while still feeling almost effortless. I particularly love his series “A Collapse” whose pieces are almost reminiscent of deconstructed origami.
June 16th, 2011
June 16th, 2011
Meet Canadian artist Alice Gibney. Her work has a hauntingly beautiful presence, layering intimate charcoal lines on large scale paper panels. Her recent series are filled with imagery depicting self vs nature and human manifestation of grief. She’s currently spending some time in Berlin, hopefully gathering up loads of inspiration for her next series of work when she returns to NYC to finish her MFA at Parsons.
June 15th, 2011
Tessa Farmer’s miniscule sculptures reinvigorate a belief in fairies: not the sweet Tinkerbell image in popular conscience, but a biological, entomological, macabre species translating pastoral fable into nightmarish lore. Constructed from bits of organic material, such as roots, leaves, and dead insects, each of Tessa’s figures stand barely 1 cm tall, their painstakingly intricate detail visible only through a magnifying glass.
Hovering with rarefied, jewel-like beauty, Tessa’s tiny spectacles resound with a theurgist exotica: their specimen forms borrow from Victorian occultism to evolve as something alien and futuristic. Playing out apocalyptic narratives of a microscopic underworld, Tessa’s manikin wonders rule with baneful fervour: harnessing mayflies, battling honey bees, attacking spindly spiders. Presented as wee preternatural discoveries, Tessa’s sculptures conjure a superstitious premise, dismantling the mythos of fantasia with evidence of something much more gothic, sinister, and bewitching.”
-Â Patricia Ellis
June 15th, 2011
Nothing is more exciting than opening up your inbox and discovering a great new artist like Alejandro Diaz. His work is playful, layered, technically beautiful, and experimental. Looking forward to seeing what Alejandro produces next!
June 15th, 2011
CMRTYZ makes lo-fi, hand made posters and prints just like the ones to your favorite punk shows from when you were a teenager. It’s refreshing to see that some people are keeping the DIY show posters alive and still having fun with it. Makes me want to start a band, make my own flyers and play in front of 200 of my closest friends in a smelly old basement.
June 15th, 2011
Adorno once said, “Those who peruse art solely with comprehension make it into something straightforward, which is furthest from what it is. If one seeks to get a closer look at a rainbow, it disappears.” Respectively, I am going to have to disagree with his insightful assertion. That is, after experiencing the FriendsWithYou New York city take over this past week. The emotional and visual experience of FriendsWithYou art on display starting this past week proved that artwork can be successfully and simply straightforward, while still perpetuating depth within its comprehension. Furthermore it was proven that sometimes, the rainbow doesn’t have to disappear.
June 14th, 2011
Ukranian Sasha Kurmaz’s portfolio is full of well composed still lives and  delightfully awkward figurative photography.
June 14th, 2011
James Powers’ paintings use airports and airplanes as a starting point to create work that shifts back and forth between abstraction and representation.
