Category Archives: MISC

Phoebe Washburn’s Fort Installations And Mixed Media Inventions

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Phoebe Washburn’s constructions, built from found or discarded objects such as plants, plywood, cardboard, or fish tanks, to name a few, have been gaining critical acclaim and momentum since 2008, when she took part in the coveted Whitney Biennial.

Of her craft and salvage, in W Magazine, Washburn states: “I’m not green; I’m greedy . . . There’s definitely an aspect of hoarding that drives this, absolutely! If I see someone walking down the street with a nice piece of wood, I’m like, Where did they get that?”

Her approach to discussing art is as playful and humble as the structures themselves, or their titles, which range from “Nunderwater Nort Lab” (above, top) to “Baby Brain (Not Safe for Use as Jacuzzi)” (above, below).

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Iphone “Oil Paintings” Made With Your Face

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When you hear the phrase  ”Iphone oil paintings” you’re probably not thinking of rubbing your phone all over face to make a greasy abstraction on your phones screen but that is in fact what NYC  artist Jonathan Keller Keller has done. Working at the intersection of craft, collection, and computation, Keller seeks to transcend & transform everyday digital elements through obsessive, iterative, and generative processes. A good example of this is Keller Rubbing his phone all over his face with gusto (see the above Gif of him in action) transforming the dark phone screen into a canvas full of possibilities for abstraction. Yes it is weird and this may make you cringe if you’re a germaphobe but we’d be lying if we didn’t say that the gifs of the oil shining this way and that way weren’t a tad mesmerizing. (via)

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J Swofford Surreal Collaged Photographs

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J Swafford’s images start with the process of hand cut collage and end with a photograph. Swafford meticulously hand cuts detailed images out of magazines, history books and his own imagery and combines them in surreal combinations that are at once macabre and playful. He then photographs the collages as three dimensional objects giving the once flat collage a deep world to live, laugh, cry and at times die in.

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Marc Sparfel’s Animal Sculptures Made Out Of Abandoned Furniture

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When French Sculptor Marc Sparfel comes across a stack of old furniture on the street he gets excited. Not because someone has just updated their home decor but because he has now gained a pile of materials for his charming animal sculptures.  Sparfel’s process is intuitive allowing curved chair rails to be come horns on a bull, a chair back to become elephant ears, and gilded couch legs to turn into a torso. The results are a poetic take on the mysterious animals that we live amongst using discarded materials that most of us wouldn’t think twice about using again. (via)

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Bartek Elsner’s Incredibly Detailed Sculptures Made Out Of Cardboard

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Berlin, Germany based graphic designer Bartek Elsner spends most of his time creating ad campaigns, illustration, and websites for companies both big and small. However the real exciting work starts when he isn’t pushing pixels in front of a computer. Using the simple materials of glue, cardboard and a few basic cutting instruments Elsner creates elaborate sculptures both big and small out of the cheap cardboard that we routinely through out. Here is a collection of some of our favorites from his site. (via)

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Catherine Nelson’s Incredible Digital Floating Worlds

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Catherine Nelson is a visual artist who uses the digital medium to create orbital worlds of  imaginary landscapes. Her ‘Future Memories’ series comprises of 20 floating worlds, meticulously composed with thousands of assembled details. Visual poetry, nature photography and digital techniques blend together to give shape to these transcendental landscapes. The result is a contemporary pictorial mythology that subtly reminds the viewer of a profound truth: that it is in the flourishing variety of the local that the fate of the world resides.

Trained as a painter in Sydney and London and with years of experience in the creation of visual effects for feature films like Moulin Rouge and Harry Potter, she now has dedicated her skills to her own art work combining the techniques from both these worlds into a new contemporary art medium.

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SBAGLIATO’S Street Art Trompe- L’oeil Doors And Windows Into Nowhere

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Italian street art group SBAGLIATO (meaning “wrong” in Italian) covers, buildings, walls, and the occasional rock with trompe- l’oeil  windows and doorways that beg viewers to walk and pear into places that we’re not supposed to look at.  Their execution is so precise that from a short distance it’s difficult to tell their work apart from a real window or door. So next time you’re late for a meeting and running towards a door make sure it’s not the newest piece by SBAGLIATO or you’re sure to be greeted with a sore forehead and a few chipped teeth. (via)

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Abstraction And Figuration Merge In Erik Jones’ Paintings

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The disparate worlds of abstraction and figuration collide in the boldly colored paintings of Erik Jones. If those polar opposites weren’t enough Jones also tosses into the mix a healthy dose of organic and geometric mark making, creating explosive meditations on the human figure that at once feel analog and digital. (via)

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