“I don’t want to die without any scars.”
Juan Francisco Casas’ Bic pen drawings are definitely better than the doodles I used to make in high school. Recreating sexy photos with the blue pens that we all use in our daily lives, the Spanish-born artist creates large scale murals that measure up to 10ft high. Casas can use up four 14p ballpoints on one picture, and his award winning pieces fetch over $6000.
“I guess it started off as a joke, to try and make something so realistic that people would think is a photo,” Casas said. “For me it’s not that different from painting. I was trying to show that it doesn’t matter what material you use, it’s what you do with it.”
really digging these. Sexy selfies embroidered? jah feel. jah definitely feel.
Erin M. Riley– More here: http://erinmriley.com/section/19419.html
COLLECTIONS: Typewriters Combination of collections from my friend Thomas and the guys at Ace Typewriter Repair in Portland, Ore. Some rare machines in here including a sterling silver Royal and an R.C. Allen musical note typewriter. Prints available here.
Two anonymous art students, who go by the moniker dangerdust, have been creating gorgeous hand-lettered and illustrated chalkboards featuring inspiring quotes from literary and public figures. Every Monday a new piece, rendered entirely by chalk, appears on the common chalkboard, only to be ephemerally replaced the following week. “Despite our overwhelming workload at Columbus College of Art & Design we bring it upon ourselves to create a chalkboard every week,” say the two students, explaining the motivation behind their late-night rogue art. Each piece, with its cleverly placed backdrop and bold composition, is as unique as the quote itself. They’re created in one fell swoop, which can take up to 11 hours. Like the students say themselves, “it’s the best form of vandalism.” Even if you’re not a student at their school you can follow their weekly creations on behance orInstagram. (via designboom)
Harmony Korine Blue Checker :: Jeremy DePrez Untitled
Lio Yeung (HK) - A is Green R is Red curated by Agnes b
Lio was graduated in BA (Hons) in Visual communications in Hong Kong. He worked as a senoir art director in advertising in 6 years for Leo Burnett, Grey and JWT. His work has taken numerous prizes in One Show, Cannes, D&AD and TDC in Japan, In 2009, he was awarded Hong Kong Young design talent awards and offer a scholarship to work in Studio Dumbar in Netherlands. Believing commercials can be art, he is studying MA Graphic in Chelsea in London. He set up Art-Glossary magazine with Masa Inaba in 2011 to create a platform for artist and designers to discuss the definitions of art and to share ideas and experiences. With good observation to life and surroundings, Lio wants to explore the obstacles in seeing through paintings and sculptures. Imagining a world which everyone sees physically different scenes, a single object will derive a million possiblities of how it looks like.
© All images courtesy the artist
[more Lio Yeung | Curator’s Monday with Mumy]
Chris Slabber is a creative artist and designer from South Africa; he has created a beautiful series called “Destruction/Creation“.
Inspired by the works of Alberto Seveso, he created his own series of paint in water sculptures. These were exhibited at KKNK 2014 at a gallery called Art Karoo.
He writes: “The idea behind this series was to show that from Destruction comes Creation. As the paint falls there is a constant point of creation, but at the same time it destroys itself.”
Office Supplies Incorporated
38" x 64" Collage of archival prints on panel.
2012
Photographer Katharina Geber is from Hannover, Germany. We discovered her work through our Facebook cover contest a few weeks ago.
Katharina prefers natural motifs with a nostalgic, sometimes romantic twist. She tells us, that she likes analog photography, double exposures and to capture tender emotions.
In the realm of genetic anomalies found in living organisms perhaps none is more visually striking than bilateral gynandromorphism, a condition where an animal or insect contains both male and female characteristics, evenly split, right down the middle. While cases have been reported in lobsters, crabs and even in birds, it seems butterflies and moths lucked out with the visual splendor of having both male and female wings as a result of the anomaly. For those interested in the science, here’s a bit from Elise over at IFLScience:
In insects the mechanism is fairly well understood. A fly with XX chromosomes will be a female. However, an embryo that loses a Y chromosome still develops into what looks like an adult male, although it will be sterile. It’s thought that bilateral gynandromorphism occurs when two sperm enter an egg. One of those sperm fuses with the nucleus of the egg and a female insect develops. The other sperm develops without another set of chromosomes within the same egg. Both a male and a female insect develop within the same body.
Above are some great examples of bilateral gynandromorphism, but follow the links above and below for many more. (via Live Science, The Endless Airshow, Butterflies of America, IFLScience)
FEATURED ARTIST: Wyatt Kahn
Wyatt Kahn’s works consist of forms and gaps. He creates his paintings
by fastening together shaped MDF panels covered with raw canvas or
linen. His color paintings feature two “coats” of fabric; he layers
raw canvas or linen over colored canvas on each form. Assembled and
bolted together, the three-dimensional panel-forms visually flatten
out and become the compositional elements of a two-dimensional picture
plane. The gaps between the forms subsequently appear as lines within
a pictorial composition. Kahn’s paintings thoroughly integrate
pictorial space with that of the object. Each shape within the
composition is the shape it is, but it also depicts the shape it is.
Each finished abstract work acts simultaneously as a relief object and
an image.
Recent solo and two person exhibitions of his work have been featured at T293, Rome; ReMap 4, Athens; and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York.
Wyatt Kahn, Fat, 2012. Canvas on panel. 71 x 76 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Genevieve Hanson.
all images courtesy of peddy mergui
israel-based artist peddy mergui has envisioned a series of food packaging, extended from the lines of luxury brands. the exhibition ‘wheat is wheat is wheat’, currently presented at the museum of craft and design, san francisco through june 15th, 2014, displays the collection of crafted boxes, containers and cases, each bearing a familiar trademark of a well-known brand. nike, tiffany, gucci and apple — to name a few — are logos featured on the packs, which are aesthetically described by visual elements and characteristics appropriate to each label; for example, fruits are contained in geometric and angular grey crates, emblematic of the nike brand.
