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Entries with the keyword "Artists"

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Artist Stephen J. Shanabrook for Comme des Garçons Shirt S/S 2010 Campaign
(02 February 2010) - For their latest ad campaign promoting their Shirts line, forward-thinking fashion label Comme des Garçons tapped artist Stephen J. Shanabrook for an image that borrows from his series "Paper Surgery." (Pictured above right and after the jump.) Playing on...
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Art 4 Haiti Charity
(28 January 2010) - by Fiona Killackey Known for her delicate and detailed illustrations, New Zealand-based artist Sarah Lanarch recently created Art 4 Haiti, a charity in which artists lend their talents to raise awareness and funds for the crisis in Haiti. Feeling first...
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Buy What You Love
(15 January 2010) - A collaborative visual arts fundraiser, Buy What You Love supplies over 200 artists from around the world with the materials to create an original work over the course of one day. Limited to 8.5 x 11 inches in size,...
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Best of CH 2009: Top Five Street Art Shows
(28 December 2009) - by Ariston Anderson This year saw a fresh wave of art in the streets with more than one homecoming and some clever new approaches. Steve Powers: Philadelphia Love Letter Seizing on the power of extremely personal art, Steve Powers swathed...
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Highlights from Miami's Art Week 2009
(14 December 2009) - Hitting the beach earlier this month to check out the festivities surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach, we of course met an overwhelming array of inspiring artists and designers who filled us in on the backstories behind their work. Below, we've...
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Artist Atsushi Takahashi
(14 December 2009) - Graduating from Tokyo's Tama Art University in 2004, it wasn't until after working for several years as a caretaker that artist Atsushi Takahashi started painting his densely-worked portraits. Using a technique that involves building up layers of carefully-controlled swirls,...
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Walton Creel: Deweaponizing The Gun
(11 December 2009) - As mediums go, guns rarely figure into an artist's tools, but for Alabama-based Walton Creel they have become the weapon of choice for creating thought-provoking art. CH caught up with Creel to learn more about his series, "Deweaponizing the...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Absolut Art Collection
(27 November 2009) - by Gregory Mitnick Checking in with artists David Shrigley, Douglas Gordon, Sylvie Fleury and Hung Tung Lu in Stockholm, Sweden, this video takes a look at Absolut Vodka's longstanding history of creative collaboration. As guests of Absolut invited to commemorate...
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Artist Julie Combal
(11 November 2009) - Taking on the dichotomy between nature's inherent behavior and man's challenges to it, Brooklyn-based artist Julie Combal draws on "the historical tradition of oil painting" to create beautiful works that toe the line between abstraction and landscapes. Her contemplative...
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Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids
(28 October 2009) - by Tamara Warren Andy Warhol understood the power of immediacy, and the Polaroid Big Shot camera he purchased in 1970 became his favorite tool to capture the heat of the momentous life he lived. The exhibition Big Shots: Andy Warhol...
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Dirty Donny Halloween Watch
(19 October 2009) - by Jeremy Brautman The artwork of Canadian "Dirty" Donny Gillies has graced a range of objects from skateboards to statues, but most notably Metallica album covers. Now his punk rock tenor can be found on an exclusive limited edition Halloween...
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Hula-Hooper Marawa Ibrahim
(24 September 2009) - by Fiona Killackey A born performer, Marawa Ibrahim has been exciting audiences from Poland to Portugal since 2004 as a trapeze artist and hoola-hooper, who not only can keep a remarkable 50 hoops spinning but, as a "rubber-faced goof...
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Artist Karen Kimmel
(18 September 2009) - As creative as she is altruistic, artist Karen Kimmel leads stencil workshops geared for children that she calls Art of Exchange. The L.A.-based artist has been stressing the importance of creating art and helping kids make "some sick stuff"...
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Felted Animal Sculptures by Amelia Santiago
(13 August 2009) - Portland-based artist Amelia Santiago uses needle felting to create wool fiber sculptures of dogs and other animals commissioned by pet owners. A technique that uses nothing but a barbed needle, Santiago has laboriously sculpted more than three hundred sculptures...
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Zevs: Hong Kong Liquidated Logos
(20 July 2009) - by Ariston Anderson While preparing for his first ever solo show in Hong Kong recently, authorities arrested French graffiti artist and notorious logo destroyer Zevs after he painted a "liquidated" Chanel logo atop the flagship Giorgio Armani store to "reflect...
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Mixed Greens Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: X
(10 July 2009) - Celebrating a decade of art collective Mixed Greens' efforts in promoting struggling artists, their Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, X, brings together 84 members and alumni for a sensory overload experience. The show draws on a roster of talent (over 100...
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Bemodern: Interview with Paul Darragh
(08 July 2009) - He may well have worked for some huge commercial names, but for New Zealand-born, New Yorker Bemodern (aka Paul Darragh) success results from freely creating art for yourself. Graphic designer by day and artist by night this 20-something is...
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Steve Powers: Philadelphia Love Letter
(07 July 2009) - by Ariston Anderson Artist Steve Powers is leaving his infamous ESPO (Exterior Surface Painting Outreach) tag behind as he returns to his native city of Philadelphia for a collaboration with the Mural Arts Program to revive the lost art of...
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Society6
(30 June 2009) - Aspiring artists looking to be discovered will find new micro-patronage site Society6 to be nothing less than a godsend. The service provides a virtual showroom for artists to display their work and vie for viewer support. Like Threadless, the...
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Interview with Erik Madigan Heck of Nomenus Quarterly
(29 June 2009) - by Laura Neilson In 2007, 23-year-old Erik Madigan Heck founded Nomenus Quarterly with the kind of arrogant fervor that only someone at that age could pull off. And perhaps it was that very same aplomb that made the multifaceted...
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Loren Kreiss: Say Hello To My Little Friends
(02 June 2009) - Finding inspiration from childhood doodles, artist and furniture scion Loren Kreiss is moving his solo show, "Say Hello to My Little Friends," from his Tribeca apartment to NYC's Fuller Building. Kreiss brings the quirky creatures to life using a...
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Edgartista: The New Millennium
(01 June 2009) - Meticulous and relentless, Edgartista's four year project, "The New Millennium," began with a sketch on his daily train commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Inspired by the urban landscape, the upshot is a large-scale futuristic drawing that incorporates major landmarks...
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Painter Amy Crehore
(06 May 2009) - Artist Amy Crehore's work feels like a Gauguin version of "Where The Wild Things Are," with her nudes hanging out in the jungle alongside monkeys, cats, lions and little kids dressed like clowns. Her paintings on ukuleles sing a...
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Art/Work
(27 April 2009) - by Ariston AndersonFew arts institutions teach the fundamentals of business and law for visual arts majors. Enter Art/Work, a new book by Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber. Bhandari is the director at NYC's Mixed Greens Gallery while Melber’s background...
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Artist Natasha Law
(16 April 2009) - I feel deeply for the body language in Natasha Law's ladies. Body and movement have always been an interesting subject matter to me. Body language can speak such an intimate, potent language. Using gestures of form, a person can...
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No One Does It Like You Music Video
(26 March 2009) - by Laura Neilson MoMA recently hosted the world premiere of Department of Eagles' music video "No One Does It Like You" as part of the museum's ongoing PopRally series. Produced by the creative tank The Directors Bureau, Patrick Daughters and...
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Lee Harvey Roswell: Soup n' Crackers
(18 March 2009) - San Francisco-based artist Lee Harvey Roswell returned to his home state of New York this month to make his solo debut in the Hudson Valley. Lee Harvey Roswell (such an inventive name should not be truncated) is a study in...
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Dietrich Wegner at Pulse
(13 March 2009) - by Kelsey KeithLast week we were taken aback at NYC's Pulse Art Fair by artist Dietrich Wegner's "Playhouse," an installation shaped like a mushroom cloud and built like a tree fort covered in swaths of cotton. A study in contradiction,...
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Ross Jones: New Works
(13 March 2009) - Political artist Ross Jones' exploratory drawings—soon to be on display at London's William Angel Gallery—take a look at Britain's current societal problems. By distilling a complicated political issue into one of its constituent parts, Jones looks at our contemporary...
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Rootbeer
(02 March 2009) - Recently formed hip-hop duo, Rootbeer (Pigeon John and Flynn Adam), have just dropped a super fresh piece of audio pie right in your kitchen. Influenced by artists such as MGMT, N.E.R.D and A Tribe Called Quest, Rootbeer offer up an...
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Two New Notebooks
(24 February 2009) - Two notebooks that allow you to express yourself freely, the new Walls Notebook by design studio the. and Moleskine's upcoming Folio are intended to provide an outlet for the creative class and doodlers alike. While Moleskine's latest addition to...
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Illustrator Andrea Innocent
(23 February 2009) - Melbourne artist Andrea Innocent's illustrations are beautiful, stylized and surreal. Borrowing from the Ukiyo-e tradition of woodblock printing that became popular in Japan in the seventeenth century, Innocent uses crisp lines and monochromatic color to create poster-style works. Ukiyo-e,...
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Orly Orbach
(06 February 2009) - British artist Orly Orbach produces dark, mysterious illustrations of mythical figures and rituals. Her works are gathering acclaim in the UK film and theater industries, attracting attention for their atmospheric otherworldliness which lends itself brilliantly to imaginative storytelling. Orbach,...
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Penelope Dullaghan
(03 February 2009) - Maybe it's because I'm regularly checking in on her profoundly candid blog, or because her work speaks to me in some uncanny way, but I've always felt a powerfully calming and comforting relation to the work of illustrator, Penelope...
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Riitta Ikonen
(29 January 2009) - Finnish artist Riitta Ikonen creates impressive costumes for her subjects, who then incorporate them into their environments in playful and hilarious ways. The experiences of the people wearing Ikonen's creations as they ride on subways, walk through parks and...
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Bradley Peters: Home Theater
(28 January 2009) - by Kelsey Keith Bradley Peters is a recent graduate of Yale University's renowned MFA program in Photography and one of photo curator Amani Olu's rising stars. Olu teams up this month with Brooklyn gallerist Melanie Flood to present Peters' images...
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Artist Femke Hiemstra
(27 January 2009) - Femke Hiemstra's beautifully rendered and haunting images transcend those of typical neo-surrealist fairytale artists. Her mixed-media paintings and graphite drawings of anthropomorphized fruits, vegetables, toy parts, and animals reference retro packaging from around the world. They have an expressive...
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James Jean: Kindling
(20 January 2009) - by Derrick Ableman If you like chocolate in your peanut butter, horror in your fantasy and pain in your pleasure, then book it down to the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in NYC to check out Kindling, a solo exhibition of new...
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Hope in the White House Tees
(19 January 2009) - You may not have been able to get your hands on a ticket to Obama's historic inauguration taking place this Tuesday in D.C., but you can still show your support and sanguine sentiments for the new President with New Orleans...
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Lost at E Minor x Shepard Fairey
(15 January 2009) - by Derrick AblemanContemporary artist Shepard Fairey is hijacking our favorite weekly email publication, Lost at E Minor, by plotting a kamikaze course through a posse of his favorite street artists, photographers and left-of-center bands next Tuesday, 20 January 2009. First...
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Illustrator Amy Sol
(04 December 2008) - We checked in with illustrator Amy Sol and asked her about the impact her workspace has on her unique interpretative style.It's pretty minimal and not necessarily clean all the time. If you visit me you can tell immediately how...
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Ed. Limitata Calendar
(02 December 2008) - by Ariston Anderson Ed. Limitata is a new type of calendar, featuring the works of a series of artists from around the world. The five-year project has launched its first edition for 2009, featuring the works of Alighiero Boetti, David...
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Artist and Restauranteur Dejan Bogdanovic
(24 November 2008) - I met painter Dejan Bogdanovic in a nightclub he was running in Florence, Italy, nearly ten years ago. Dressed in a vintage leather vest and the owner of one of the most charming laughs I'd ever heard, I was intrigued...
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Roger Hiorns
(18 November 2008) - In an abandoned apartment in the south of the city, Roger Hiorns turned the idea of sculpture inside out, covering the walls of a room with copper sulphate solution which, after a few weeks, transformed into bright blue copper sulphate...
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Ed Templeton: Deformer and Map of the Inner War
(14 November 2008) - In L.A. this weekend artist and professional skateboarder Ed Templeton will be signing his new book, "Deformer." Filled with over thirty years worth of material, Templeton has been working on the book for the past eleven years and will...
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Matthew Smith
(06 November 2008) - Vivid technicolor dreamscapes emerge from Brooklyn-based illustrator Matthew Smith's clever imagination. Always expect the unexpected in his bright, unique and colorful world, which he builds with detailed line work and bold powerful marker strokes. Yes, we said marker strokes,...
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Joshua Callaghan
(04 November 2008) - L.A.-based artist Joshua Callaghan uses his education in cultural anthropology and fine arts to create clever installations that serve as both art and a way to disguise undesirable city objects such as utility boxes. Using adhesive vinyl graphics, Callaghan's...
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The Artwork of Vanessa Prager
(04 November 2008) - At just 24-years-old, artist Vanessa Prager has already accomplished a great deal of success with her drawings and paintings. Not surprisingly though, as it seems that what the young L.A. resident lacks in formal education she makes up for with...
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Photographer Joshua Lutz
(22 October 2008) - Meadowlands, a monograph by New York photographer, Joshua Lutz, is a collection of photos taken of the 32-square-mile area between New York City and New Jersey. It's a locale that most New Yorkers have never heard of or taken...
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Moda Home Collection for Micasa by Adriana Barra
(09 October 2008) - Brazilian fashion designer Adriana Barra is well known for her vivid, dizzying prints on boho dresses. She recently applied these works to release a print-embellished Moda Home Collection for the highly conceptual furniture store Micasa in Sao Paulo, Brazil....
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Swoon: Switchback Cities of Switchback Sea
(05 September 2008) - by Ariston Anderson The petite Pratt graduate, Swoon, has quickly climbed through the ranks of street art, raising the bar by using art as politics. A mainstay at the likes of Deitch, MoMA and the Brooklyn Museum of Art,...
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Acne: Hockney Socks
(30 July 2008) - Who would've thought that the humble sock could work as an interpretation of a personality? That's exactly what Acne does with their new Hockney Socks due out this fall. Applying the same aesthetic appeal as the pop pioneer for...
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Parrworld: Objects and Postcards
(10 July 2008) - Known for his images of colorful and humor-filled worlds, legendary British photographer Martin Parr recently released a luscious two-volume set entitled "Parrworld: Objects and Postcards." While Parr has been widely recognized for his vast collection of photography books, these...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Lisa Kereszi, Photographer
(12 June 2008) - Known for her hauntingly still imagery, photographer Lisa Kereszi's subjects have included junkyards, burlesque clubs and other desolate sites. Her commercial work for clients such as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nest, W, GQ, Tokion, Penthouse,...
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David Shrigley: Polite Cards
(12 June 2008) - by Gabriel Bell For those with a checkered past or a wicked sense of humor we recommend a selection from David Shrigley's line of comical cards presented by the British design collective, Polite. Granted, there's nothing actually polite about Shrigley's...
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Guillaume Bresson Paintings
(04 June 2008) - Perhaps his paintings are not for the faint of heart, but if you're like me and like art with a sinister edge, take a look at the work of French artist Guillaume Bresson. Bresson's sombre paintings are like choreographed...
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Kahn and Selesnick: Eisbergfreistadt
(22 May 2008) - Artists Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn have been collaborating to produce multi-layered exhibitions for the past 20 years, and their most recent project Eisbergfreistadt ("iceberg free state") is currently on view at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. Eisbergfreistadt...
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Kent Rogowski: Love=Love at Jen Bekman and 20x200
(07 May 2008) - "Love=Love," the amazing series of puzzle collages by Kent Rogowski we featured in January will be exhibited at the Jen Bekman gallery in New York City from 7 May to 14 June 2008. The show will display a selection...
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Wangechi Mutu
(07 April 2008) - Wangechi Mutu’s new show “Little Touched” at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is so complete and polished that it feels more like walking into a museum than a gallery. Originally from Kenya, Mutu’s work focuses on the constant exploration...
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Vinay Somana Ganapathy
(03 April 2008) - Born in southern India, raised in suburban Connecticut and formally trained in Syracuse, Brooklyn artist Vinay Somana Ganapathy draws on multiple influences that inform his imagery and work. Mixing pen, pencil and paint, Vinay’s illustrations are marked by fine,...
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Ken Madore
(20 February 2008) - Nightmares, conspiracy theories, mystic symbolism and allegories on family tragedy are all fodder for Brooklyn-based artist Ken Madore's work. Crafting obsessively-detailed and intricate works of ink on paper—often on a huge scale—his work illustrates and illuminates the dark side...
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Koons
(05 February 2008) - Jeff Koons’ forthcoming monograph traces his spectacular career from 1979 to the present. True to form, the book honors his overstated aesthetic with proportions that may dwarf some coffee tables. Limited to a pressing of 1,600 copies, it serves...
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Suzuki Omnichord
(20 December 2007) - When Suzuki introduced the Omnichord in 1981 it had a profound effect on both music instruction and as a tool for professional musicians. An electronic musical instrument, it features a touch plate and chord buttons, making it almost too...
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Art Basel Miami Beach Studio Visits
(06 December 2007) - New to the events happening during Art Basel this year, a series of studio visits allows visitors to see what happens before the art gets into the sterile white walls of the booths and galleries. Running through 8 December...
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Matthew Woodson
(06 December 2007) - Matthew Woodson's illustration style doesn't exactly break new ground, but it's his rotoscoping-like technique we like most. Overriding themes include half-nude woman, tattoos, skeletons, violence and mystery, all of which we like and seek out. Check out more of...
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It's a Beautiful World
(05 December 2007) - Scion's fourth installment of their Installation Art Tour , entitled "It's A Beautiful World," arrives in Miami for Art Basel on 7 December 2007. The opening reception for the public will take place from 7-10pm at The Raleigh Hotel Penthouse...
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Urs Fischer: You
(03 December 2007) - This weekend Ami and I got to check out You, Urs Fischer's installation at Gavin Brown's Enterprise. (Click images for detail.) The piece is an eight-foot deep crater measuring about 38x30 feet dug within the pristine white walls of...
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Doris Salcedo: Shibboleth
(09 November 2007) - The Tate Modern always does an incredible job of reinventing their Great Turbine Hall with large, encompassing installations and with Doris Salcedo's "Shibboleth" they may have outdone themselves. Stretching imagination and the definition of sculpture and installation itself, Salcedo...
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Lumen Eclipse
(01 November 2007) - Giant screens loom over Harvard Square (below), a pedestrian thoroughfare that's an integral part of the Boston metropolitan area, displaying avant-garde works of video art by established and up-and-coming artists from around the world. Updated monthly and cleverly named...
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Re*Generation Art Auction
(30 October 2007) - Once again Virgin Mobile is doing their share of goodwill with their annual Re*Generation Art Auction benefiting homeless youth charities across the U.S. With works from an all-star line up of artists like Jordan Isip (pictured right), Melinda Beck,...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Tom Gallant
(28 October 2007) - Living and working in Brussels, Belgium, Tom Gallant creates hand-cut floral prints out of archived pornographic magazines. Using a surgical blade, he cuts into the imagery, layering extremely delicate cut-outs on top of one another to assemble a dramatic...
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Bruno 9Li
(25 October 2007) - Producing work that is wildly imaginative and meticulously realized, the Brazilian artist known as Bruno 9Li is the latest of the Rojo Magazine group to publish his own monographic book. Entitled Agora Eterno, the book's release is being paired...
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Zhang Huan: Chinese Performance Art
(19 October 2007) - One of the earliest and most influential icons of contemporary Chinese art, Zhang Huan, is best known for his performance piece in which he covered himself with honey and sat naked in front of a fetid public restroom outside...
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Museum of the Moving Image: Warhol's World
(17 October 2007) - The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, often neglected in the NYC museum circuit, is making a major star power push with the upcoming can't-miss retrospective of Andy Warhol's films. Warhol's World, a film series showing 40 of...
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Nineteeneightyfouria: Shepard Fairey Interview
(12 October 2007) - Many regard Shepard Fairey as one of the godfathers of the modern urban art scene and he's widely known as one of the hardest working men in the business. His Obey Andre the Giant figure can be found all...
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Beautiful Decay Website Redesign and Giveaway
(03 October 2007) - In celebration of their newly redesigned site, Beautiful Decay is giving away a three-pack of tees along with their Archive Book to a few CH readers. We've been fans of their artist series shirts from the beginning and the...
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Ron Mueck: In Bed
(03 October 2007) - The London-based hyper-realist sculptor Ron Mueck's recent intriguing work, "In Bed", is hard to resist. Commentary on scale in architecture is common in a spatial sense, with much of our education revolving around it. Yet as humans, the scale...
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Luke Feldman: The Whimsical World of Skaffs
(02 October 2007) - Australian artist Luke Feldman's exhibition of visual and audio artworks, "The Whimsical World of Skaffs," opens at Seattle's Bluebottle Art Gallery today, 2 October 2007 and runs through 30 October 2007. Combining visual works with atmospheric music (also composed...
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I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton In Art
(27 September 2007) - While some have already dismissed skull imagery as a passing trend, we think when it's done right it can be a timeless memento mori. If you're anything like us, you're going to enjoy "I Am As You Will Be:...
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Judith Supine Gets Wet
(13 September 2007) - Taking street art, er, beyond the street, Judith Supine took to the waters of the East River in New York recently with a guerilla floating installation. His colorful, awkward and—at times—political collage works can be found around lower Manhattan...
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Paolo Ventura Dioramas
(11 September 2007) - Is it possible to love dioramas too much? I don’t think so. I particularly love the macabre dioramas of Paolo Ventura. His first body of work, called "War Souvenir," is a series of scenes set in his native Italy...
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Keiichi Tanaami: DayDream
(10 September 2007) - Shibuya's Nanzuka Underground Gallery presents one of Japan's (and the world's) masters of experimental film, graphic design and illustration, Keiichi Tanaami. His new exhibition, "DayDream," opens this October. (Click images for detail.)Tanaami has been delivering eclectic, quirky and above...
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Stephen Earl Rogers
(06 September 2007) - Stephen Earl Rogers is a young British artist who's becoming well known for his portraiture and realism. He has a unique way of capturing a person's character by depicting the emotional presence of the figure. Technically stunning, his works...
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Carsten Höller
(05 September 2007) - Carsten Höoller, creator of the magnificent slides shown at the Tate Museum earlier this year (above left, click on image for detail) and a beguiling room of 10 ft. mushrooms hanging from the ceiling (above right, click on image...
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The Encampment
(15 August 2007) - Like a geometric nomadic village of art, The Encampment is a project that erects 100 illuminated expedition-style tents on the south point of NYC's Roosevelt Island from 5-7 October 2007. Organized by Thom Sokoloski and a Toronto based team,...
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Anthony Burrill: One For Me, One For You
(17 July 2007) - Known for bold graphic work reminiscent of vintage propaganda posters and vector graphic instructions, English artist Anthony Burill created "One For Me, One For You", the latest up in the award-winning Zune Arts project. (Click above image for detail.)...
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Workplace Co-operative 115
(11 July 2007) - Creatives are known for occupying inspiring workspaces, however what happens when it's time to adopt the coveted freelancing lifestyle? Working from home sometimes doesn't cut it, no matter how tricked out your work area is. Since 2002 Workplace Co-operative...
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Virgin Gorillaz Train
(30 May 2007) - This is how public transport should be done. Unveiled Monday and travelling back and forth between London and Manchester, this tricked-out locomotive from Gorillaz aritst Jamie Hewlett is to promote the forthcoming circus/opera he's involved with called Monkey: Journey...
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Dalek and Mars-1 at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
(04 April 2007) - Brooklyn-based artist, Dalek (James Marshall) and San Francisco-based Mars-1 (Mario Martinez) held a joint opening at New York's Jonathan LeVine Gallery this past weekend in a West side/East coast clash of sorts. Originally graffiti artists, both have expanded into...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Jonathan Harris
(16 March 2007) - A Cool Hunting exclusive, we caught up with artist Jonathan Harris as he unveils his new project Universe, an artistic take on a system that explores modern mythology. He enlightened minds with his presentation at the TED conference last...
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Matthias Pliessnig: Capsule
(14 March 2007) - Although strictly sculptural, those with a bit of imagination could use Capsule as one of the nicest note/cigar holders out there. Matthias Pliessnig designed Capsule to contain its own plans rolled up inside (above right inset). Made of ebonized...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Leo Villareal
(24 February 2007) - Our 65th video visits New York-based light sculptor Leo Villareal in his Chelsea studio a week before his third solo show in Manhattan inaugurates the new Gering & López gallery. Leo walks us through his latest three sculptures that...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Jason Young
(10 February 2007) - Masculine and feminine. Ordered yet random. Intentional with elements of chance. Flat while also three-dimensional. These are some of the paradoxes of Vancouver born, LA and Paris schooled and NYC-based artist Jason Young's work. Jason is a painter, sculptor,...
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James T. Williamson: It's Hard Work
(06 February 2007) - The latest sculpture by Brooklyn artist James T. Williamson, titled "It's Hard Work," is a spoof on the traditional plaster presidential bust. What began in 2001 as a study to better understand Bush's face, the all-to-familiar squinting visage comes...
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Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers: An American Portrait
(26 January 2007) - Chris Jordan started 2007 with a new photographic series that lenses contemporary American Culture via the absurdity of some very American statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption), 61,000...
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Tra Selhtrow
(22 January 2007) - Grant Barnhart, the artist also known as Tra Selhtrow, put up some new limited edition prints at Duistudio yesterday. His compositions offer distorted narratives inhabited by lucid animals, humans and often a cross between the two. His latest body...
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Amanda Upton
(25 September 2006) - Recently named by Dutch magazine, Archive, as being amongst the world's best 200 illustrators, Sydney-based artist, Amanda Upton, creates lush and somewhat surreal works that conjure up storybook symbolism with their thick colour palette....
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Eleanor Voterakis
(27 June 2006) - Melbourne-based artist Eleanor Voterakis works predominantly with a 2B mechanical pencil [Pacer]. "My drawings are quite stark and delicate," she says. "The drawn objects tend to be situated in a blank space, and I play around with form by...
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Mia Mala McDonald
(26 May 2006) - Mia Mala McDonald is one of Melbourne’s hottest young photographers. She has a solid portfolio of live music shots but is increasingly moving towards insightful, thematic photo essays. She believes the secret to taking a good shot lies in...
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Rebecca Wetzler
(17 May 2006) - Sydney based artist Rebecca Wetzler creates lush, messy, and interweaving illustrations, which burst forth boldly from their watercolor surrounds, adding a surreal element to their rather earthy themes. She has contributed to the Australian fashion magazines Oyster and Yen,...
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Graham Dolphin
(06 April 2006) - One of the standouts at last month's Scope New York, Graham Dolphin’s art, employing seemingly-compulsive writing as the centerpiece, simultaneously recalls Fluxus, Marcel Duchamp and the back of a notebook owned by a girl in junior high. With meticulous,...
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Artists Play Too
(28 March 2006) - In a dream, Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference and announced: “Foremost, New York is about artistic collaboration. My number one goal is to nurture the city as a cultural incubator so we can breed a new generation...
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