Thomas Kellner Photography
Karen Lynn Kintz - Pogo-a-Go-Go. Graphite, mixed media, 12x12” (2012)
ugh i wish i knew who this artist was. shit.
Oh Jessica Drenk. Where have you been all my life.
South Carolina-based artist Jessica Drenk was born and raised in Montana where she developed an understanding and appreciation of the natural world that has since deeply influenced the course of her artistic career. Her installations and sculptures often imitate organic shapes, patterns, and textures even when using a medium that is often manufactured by human hands. Drenk’s most recent sculptures are a series called Implements, each of which begins with a mass of standard No. 2 pencils that have been tightly glued together. Using an electric sander she then molds the piece into a form that seems more likely to have originated in a dark cave or deep within the ocean than from a school desk. Of her work she says:
By transforming familiar objects into nature-inspired forms and patterns, I examine how we classify the world around us. Manufactured goods appear as natural objects, something functional becomes something decorative, a simple material is made complex, and the commonplace becomes unique. In changing books into fossilized remnants of our culture, or in arranging elegantly sliced PVC pipes to suggest ripple and wave patterns, I create a connection between the man-made and the natural.
Alexis Arnold is a sculptor and installation artist interested in the visual displays of time and history. Objects have their own life cycles of accumulation and decomposition. Arnold creates these changes over condensed time frames through catalyzed natural processes, such as crystal growth, forced oxidation, or sun-bleaching, in an effort to see objects in a new way, with a new history. For his ‘Crystalized Books’ series he grows crystals on a selection of books. The books, now frozen with heavy crystal growth, become artifacts or geologic specimens imbued with the history of time, use, and nostalgia. The crystal growth highlights or creates the aesthetics of these once-utilitarian objects that are entering the world of obsolescence, as well as acts to suggest past and future narratives laden with memory, wonder, and the interminable progression of time, both geologic and on a smaller, more relatable scale.
Andrew Salgado
I love this piece. Classic Barbara Kruger.
I also love Art.sy. the best.
Hajin Bae (a.k.a. Soulist-Aurora) | on Tumblr - Bubble gum girl
Duffy London design studio created the UP Coffee Table. Working with the illusion of levitation and buoyancy, ‘UP!’ is a playful trompe l’oeil, giving the impression that a piece of glass is being suspended by small balloons. The table is a limited edition of twenty, hand made in the UK, and designed without compromise to manufacturing processes, and so are extremely time consuming to create. It is made of toughened Glass, metal resin composite, toughened steel rods.
Japanese artist Sagaki Keita (perviously here and here) recently updated his portfolio with a number of new works from 2012. Keita creates composite pen and ink illustrations using thousands of densely scribbled doodles, goofy characters seemingly born from the margins of notebook paper that then form everything from Roman statues to artworks from pop culture. Several of these illustrations are actually part of a commissioned campaign forExpedia from late last year. You can see much more on his website.
Melinda Gibson is able to transform ordinary scenes with a unique vision by constructing collages out of her signature cut-out style photography.
Launched less than a month ago, Below the Boat makes gorgeous bathymetric charts (the underwater equivalent of a topographic map) using laser-cut layers of Baltic birch that are then carefully glued together to create what you see here. They have over two dozens charts currently available organized by East Coast, West Coast, and Interior Lakes. (via gessato)
Kate MccGwire - Fume (2007)
In ‘Fume’, Kate literally and metaphorically plays with fire; a hole burnt into the pages of a hand-made book resembles an inverted flower. The unexpected beauty and fragility of the incinerated pages, however, is subverted by the heresy of the action.
the picture before the picture
