Oleg Dou takes inspiration from 20th century portraits of dead children and creates an arresting series of ghostly images that are at once innocent and frightening.
September 20th, 2011
September 20th, 2011
Miles Aldridge’s fashion photographs pack a powerful punch of color and bizarre surreal narratives.
September 20th, 2011
Polish photographer Pszemek Dzienis portraits use fashion industry digital manipulation techniques to create subtle and naturalistic effects his photographs operate somewhere between reinforcing and unsettling received notions of beauty.
September 20th, 2011
From far away, Anthony Sneed’s unique brand of Minimalism instantly calls to mind the reductive elegance of Dan Flavin–or the boisterous, hypercolor modernism of Sol Lewitt’s recent work. However, on closer inspection, Sneed’s seeming hard edged “paintings” reveal themselves to be three-dimensional scultpural works; Modern tromp l’oeils of sorts. Sneed’s work amalgamates the conceptual framework of the Minimalist tradition with Op Art’s investigation of the relationship between illusion and picture plane, movement and depth, reality and perception. In this sense, Sneed’s work calls to mind Tony Smith’s geometrical modules, in his capacity to create drama through simplicity, scale, and revealing what is not there.
September 19th, 2011
A successful piece of furniture is timeless. It simultaneously looks brand new and like it’s existed forever. Atelier Pfister’s pieces have that quality. After the jump you can see more of our favorite pieces. Read more »
September 19th, 2011
In her latest body of work, Kimberly Brooks continues to explore portraiture, specifically the complexities of representations of female identities. While in her previous series, including Mom’s Friends (2007) and The Stylist Project (2010), the artist used figures to construct narratives, here the female form is part of a broader abstracted landscape. And while earlier portraits boasted an uncanny likeness to their subjects, Brooks’ style has shifted into something that is simultaneously looser and richer. Facial features have been abstracted and bodies distorted. Fashion and costume, a longtime theme for Brooks, is also deconstructed. Once painstakingly rendered folds and drapes have been reduced to their essential shapes and color fields. In these sumptuous new images, Brooks continues to address questions about how we frame beauty, and the phenomenon of fashion as a both pop culture and artistic touchstone. Taken as a whole, the new paintings create a meta-narrative that contemplates “threads” that define, unite and separate us across different cultures and eras.\
Make sure to catch Kimberly Brooks’ third solo show currently on view at Taylor De Cordoba through October 22nd.
September 19th, 2011
Maarten Alexander & Rul3rs have come together to create a series of arresting images combining Maarten’s clean photographic sensibilites and Rul3rs’ coded mathematical and religious symbols.
September 19th, 2011
Synckop doesn’t design your average rock posters, instead he mixes classic typography with surreal imagery to create timeless avant-garde rock graphics that will have impact for generations to come.
Presented by the wall calendar printing company, Next Day Flyers.
