on Oct 31, 2011 •
The pun in the title refers to, other than Cardon Webb working on book covers for Oliver Sacks, sacks of talent the man has. This particular idea of the in-house designer for Vintage Books was initially mothballed, only to later be put back for discussion and eventually realized. We can see that the reason for...
on Sep 11, 2011 •
The end result looks just like a sculpture. More accurately, a photograph of a sculpture. Photography is essential when sculpting with water, because water, of course, doesn’t hold shape. Weather these are sculptures on the photographs below, or simply photographs, we will let art historians agree upon. What we can say, looking at these one...
on Aug 29, 2011 •
For Katsuyo Aoki, dreams of Japan are predictive dreams. Since he’s both from Japan and the dreamer in question, we can understand that, in this, probably a reduced manner. If we were to understand this initial premise better, a deeper knowledge of Japan’s cultural heritage is needed. We can, still, say a few more words...
on Aug 27, 2011 •
There’s this French guy who calls himself Invader. He invades spaces of cities (35 so far, worldwide) with variations of four characters from the arcade classic, Space Invaders - gluing tiles on walls of buildings, creating heavily pixelated images. He’s received images of his work from cities he’s never visited. Invading has outgrown the one-man-show it...
on Aug 20, 2011 •
Jason Munn, a graphic designer, makes band, concert and movie posters, from his independent studio The Small Stakes. He has a very minimalistic, economic style of design – clean lines and two, sometimes three colors. These characteristics of style would be a limiting factor for most designers, not technically but idea-wise. The way Mr. Munn...
on Aug 16, 2011 •
At a first glance you might not notice, but those are actually books down there. Some were soaked in a bathtub, some just aged correctly and to some, horrible things were done. However, no important books were used as subjects in Cara Barer‘s sculpting/photography project. One of the books below is “Houston yellow pages” and...
on Aug 15, 2011 •
A graphic artist turned painter – Michael Carson (1972) graduated from Minneapolis Institute of Art and Design in 1996, but only made his first ever painting in 1999. He is now a full time painter, primarily a figurative artist, influenced greatly by works of Toulouse-Lautrec, Norman Rockwell, Liepke and others, but with a distinctive fancy...
on Aug 4, 2011 •
Other than his art, Francois-Marie Banier (1947), a novelist, playwright, photographer and artist, is well noted for his high profile acquaintances. Salvador Dali used to send his car to bring the then 16 year old Banier to his hotel, to discuss art. He knew Picasso, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Samuel Beckett, Kate Moss and...
on Jul 28, 2011 •
Surreal, urban landscapes are what you have the pleasure to see in the images below. Created by Amy Casey, a Cleveland based painter with a unique sensibility for (sub)urban communities, it’s interactions and communication. “Landscapes” represented in Ms. Casey’s paintings are held together by qualities of communities – cooperation, having common interests, sharing the good...
