Pia Bramley is an artist and illustrator living in London. I love how raw and expressive her work is. Drawn in ink, Ria’s illustrations are really striking and her simple lines seem so emotive.
I’m not sure if French illustrator Belhoula Amir is a lonely person but the work on his Behance page certainly make you wonder if he needs a friend or two.
The artist has created multiple series of works he calls Alone, where he use uses the monotony and repetitiveness of a canvas to show how isolated people can be. Whether it is a field or pool of water, his tiny character specks show that we really are little blips in a giant world.
I’m still enamored by mysterious Japanese painter xhxix who chooses not to reveal anything about themselves. The colorful portraits this individual creates is some of my favorite work out there currently, filled with raw emotion and fragmented nuances. There’s something so engaging about these pieces. Each boys lips and eyes are rosy and swollen and their skin is made up of numerous shades of color, almost giving them an iridescence.
(via the fox is black)
As a bespectacled type nerd, I am going absolutely gaga over Type’s new Garamond and Helvetica inspired glasses. Maybe I am geeking out a little too much but I just love this idea. The best part is that, not only did the Japanese based company create a style of glasses for each typeface, they also have three different weights for each. Cleverly you can buy both the Garamond and Helvetica glasses in light, regular and bold in your choice of black, clear or tortoiseshell. Shade is also available.
Multidisciplinary artist Yochai Matos lives and works in Tel Aviv where he creates a wide variety of indoor and outdoor artworks that span the gamut from street art to collage, photography, painting, and especially his brilliant fluorescent light bulb installations seen here. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, the artist has also worked on large-scale public interventions like his You’ve Got Mail project where 24,000 stickers were placed on mailboxes around Tel Aviv, or his ongoing People With Wings which can be seen in Port Jaffa. You can see much more over on his website.
Eyal Gever - Break Wall I (2012)
wish i knew where this came from.
A budding photographer who’d recently moved to New York snapped intimate photographs of her lover, nude and relaxing in her Upper West Side apartment. If you’re Paige Powell, this story is made ever more interesting thanks to the fact that her lover happened to be one of the most iconic artists of the last century – Mr. Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Powell revisits her personal photography archive in an ongoing exhibition in New York City, sharing a treasure trove of Basquiat imagery with a gallery audience for the first time. The black-and-white, 35mm photos capture the famously meteoric artist at his most relaxed – reclining on a futon, smoking, doodling and watching cartoons. The exhibition, entitled “Jean-Michel Basquiat, Reclining Nude,” captures a key figure from New York’s transformative art scene in his natural state, while subverting the art historical tradition of the reclining nude from a female muse to a male artist.
oh my god what the fuck. why does something like this exist? so that i am reminded that i feel for things? new york city makes you forget that you care about things.
Jacques Bodin is a french hyperrealist painter who lives and works in Paris. His works draw focus on the photographic deviations from reality in depth of field, wide angle, lighting, and focus anomalies, creating a hyperrealism reference. His paintings, generally of extremely large dimensions, are executed from photos projected on the canvas with a video projector. Jacques explains: ‘I explore diverse subject themes such as grass, fruits, hair, trees and my work is organized in the manner in which I capture my subjects to depict them with meticulous attention.’ Approaching minimalism, some of the paintings embark on a conceptual aspect of hyperreality.
