The light coming from the window blinds casts striped patterned on these bodies. It is the perfect balance of light and shadow over the curvature of the hips, and breasts—gracefully highlighting female forms. Something that Lucien Clergue does so well.

The artist will be exhibiting rare and vintage images at the Throckmorton gallery till September 13, 2014. This is just one of a hundred solo shows that he has done over the course of five decades. Clergue is a living legend; the long-time friend of Picasso, an elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, and the author of 75 art books.

LOVE this chick. Kelly Blevins is a Pittsburgh-based artist. In her singular world, you will find a host of magical creations, all completed in a black and white pencil finish. Animal imagery merges with nude portraits seamlessly, so we have the head of a wolf on top of the body of a naked woman, and a half elephant human hybrid that could have come from any book of mythology.

Lobulo has worked in Barcelona for many years and is currently based in London. One of his recent projects was creating paper sculptures of fruits and vegetables for Brit grocery chain, Tesco, and erotic toys for another advertising campaign for OFFF Barcelona 2014.

Martin Kimbell is a photographer from England who utilizes LEDs and long exposure techniques to create airborne light forms that seem like trails of otherworldy spacecraft. My initial assumption was that Kimbell used some form of small drone with attached lights, similar to Andreas Feininger’s work with helicopters back in 1949, but the photographs are instead made with hoops lined with LEDs that are hurled into the air. Kimbell was inspired early on by the work of Arizona-based photographer Stu Jenks who uses light and fire to create similar tornado-like images. You can see more of Kimbell’s work over on Flickr.

This chick Alyssa Monks is crushing the painting game. Check out her super ethereal surreal paintings. More Info to follow:

Alyssa Monks | on Tumblr (b.1977, USA)

Brooklyn-based artist Alyssa Monks is a figurative painter, blurring the line between abstraction and realism. “Using filters such as glass, vinyl, water, and steam, I distort the body in shallow painted spaces. These filters allow for large areas of abstract design - islands of color with activated surfaces - while bits of the human form peak through. In a contemporary take on the traditional bathing women, my subjects are pushing against the glass “window”, distorting their own body, aware of and commanding the proverbial male gaze. Thick paint strokes in delicate color relationships are pushed and pulled to imitate glass, steam, water and flesh from a distance. However, up close, the delicious physical properties of oil paint are apparent. Thus sustaining the moment when abstract paint strokes become something else. When I began painting the human body, I was obsessed with it and needed to create as much realism as possible. I chased realism until it began to unravel and deconstruct itself, I am exploring the possibility and potential where representational painting and abstraction meet - if both can coexist in the same moment.” Monks’s paintings have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions, and her work is represented in public and private collections.

WHAMMY Type project - A by Kadu Supanik

Twitter: @visualvibs

just got these bad boys. cause i’m a bad bitchhhhh. xxo

👊🚫Heavy hitters only kid🚫👊 photocred: @juan_c_pagan (at Home)

Bad bitches in new yowwwk. Holler at me. 🚨babe alert🚨 #nyc #rooftop #summer #hotfriends (at Above Allen @ Thompson Hotel)

Camera obscura, Selma Alaçam

Playfully distorting proportion and cultural context, Belgian artist Sammy Slabbinck’s work comprises surreal collages and illustrations that somewhat unexpectedly combine vintage with contemporary images. Slabbinck likes to play around with different styles and proportions with the aim of creating powerful yet simple visual works that are permeated by a subtle sense of humour. His carefully composed images create startling juxtapositions and present new meanings through a masterful combination of completely heterogenous elements and a clever use of scale and form. An avid collector of magazines and books from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, the artist takes full advantage of the muted tones and rich textures that he finds in his source material, namely vintage advertisements, photography and print.

BADASS Surf’s up

maybe i do love new york. <3

“i have to make myself smaller so others will not feel small next to me but now, you know what, if you feel small, it’s not my fault.”

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Noa Sade, The What’s Underneath Project

Selma Alaçam

body image is powerful. check this video. 

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Studio assistant Marisa works on a new commission

New Watercolor Tattooers of 2014

Consider the time that goes into crafting a beautiful painting on canvas. Then consider doing it all over again, this time with an electric rotary on the elastic and unpredictable surface that is the human body. No mistakes allowed. Watercolor tattoos were trendy back in ‘12, with pioneers like Ondrash, Klaim and Wachob. Their body art experiments inspired others to explore, giving way to modern masters…

Art Everywhere US to tour America's greatest paintings on 500,000 billboards

Art replaced ads in Times Square yesterday with the Art Everywhere US interactive billboard campaign kicking off an American tour of 58…

Art replaced ads in Times Square yesterday with the Art Everywhere US interactive billboard campaign kicking off an American tour of 58 paintings in what it claimed was the “largest outdoor art exhibition ever conceived”.

Backed by five of the US’s top art museums, the art exhibit will see America’s greatest works shown across over half a million US ad boards throughout August, starting in the Big Apple’s iconic Times Square.

Owners of iOS, Android and Windows phones can download Blippar, the mobile augmented reality and image recognition platform, to receive information and audio guides about the paintings.

The project was designed to expose people who may not visit museums, to some of America’s greatest paintings to boost interest in art and drive footfall to the supporting venues.

Miranda Carroll, director of communications for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said: “[Art Everywhere] is putting art out there for the public to see in an unusual way.

“It’s not necessarily about making people want to come to museums, but to let them see something that might be inspiring or beautiful or thought-provoking.”

The five participating museums each submitted 20 works of art, from which 58 were chosen in a public vote with Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ coming first.

Blippar last month purchased augmented reality network Layar in a move which will see interactive ad schemes even more widespread in the near future.

So sad and true. This is what living/growing up in New York does to people.