My art is my internalization of the things in my life that I need to work through. In a sense, it is my visual journal. Posting these images publicly is my way of letting go of them.
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Juxtapositions and irony mostly. I try to ask ‘what wouldn’t work here?’ rather than what would.I’ve found that to be an effective way of surfacinghumor. I try to use ideas and themes from my every day life. I haven’t dipped into anything too political or controversial yet maybe in the future...
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The minute detail within films. My two currentseries ‘Objects’ and ‘Rooms’ are made byrecreating objects or rooms from a certain filmwhich are then neatly arranged against a single colour background, allowing the viewer to have a kind of alternative viewing experience of afilm by representing it only through its colorsand themes rather than it’s plot or characters.
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Visually I like to use contrasting colours and simple compositions to create my artworks. I love thinking up new witty ideas from ordinary objects to create something clever with the everyday.
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Mixed-media artist and photographer Cristina Burns juxtaposes dolls, toys, candies, skulls and insects in meticulously arranged patterns. Like modern day cabinets of curiosity, her brightly colored works are a playful reminder of the vanities of life. Seeing her surreal streak, it is no surprise Hieronymus Bosch ranks among her favorite artists. Cristina talks about Bosch, Alice IN WONDERLAND, her beloved Naples and much more.
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Using up to 3,000 kilos of sand and 800 kiloS of sugar, Australian artist Tanya Schultz, better known as Pip & Pop, creates the most fantastic hallucinatory dreamscapes. Inspired by old myths and folk tales, her utopias are deceptively sweet.
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“I think now, more than ever, you have to have your own gimmick. There are so many copycat queens out there.”
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“I guess we can't say that drag has truly gone mainstream until the sports industry takes notice.”
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As a child, classically trained painter Stefano Bolcato loved to play with LEGO. Imagining the strangest buildings and machines, the little colored bricks greatly helped the Italian artist to develop his creativity. In his most recent series of works Bolcato has combined his two passions, as LEGO figurines have taken central stage in some of the world’s all time artistic masterpieces.
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My art explores the complexity of identity by picturing subjects that inherently challenge both notions of normativity and conventional modes of classification.
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Consumer culture, brand crossover, Veblen goods - where people desire an object because of its high price. An example is an average bar of soap costs $1 but a Tom Ford bar costs $195. The circumstances where luxury objects become status symbols.
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My art focuses on composing ordinary things through my handiwork and my state of mind at that time.
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In the world of Dan Lydersen, the beautiful and the gory, the pop and the Neoclassical, the fictional and the real all come to interplay - somewhat forming a utopia where all these elements live in harmony. His paintings are more like a visceral moment or a dream that you don't have a recollection of: that playdate you had with Ronald McDonald, that never-ending stroll through the park, or that time you built a sand castle on the beach.
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As Spiderman puts his teeth into a hamburger, the mighty Hulk rolls a joint, and Wonderwoman is going to the loo, Batman and Robin do what everyone thought they would do when not fighting evil: making love! In The Secret Life of Superheroes, French artist Gregoire Guillemin offers us a glimpse of the superhero’s life that normally remains behind closed doors in the Marvel and DC comic books.
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IT IS A CRAZY WORLD WE LIVE IN AND MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THE ONLY WAY TO STAY SANE IS TO HOLD UP A MIRROR AND LAUGH. YOUNG AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER OLIVIA LOCHER IS ONE OF THEM. SHE IS NOT AFRAID TO USE THE WORD “SARCASTIC” TO DESCRIBE SUCH PERSONAL WORK AS " I FOUGHT THE LAW AND HOW TO".
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BORN IN 1985, BRENT EASTBROOK DID ART BEFORE BECOMING A DENTIST ONLY TO DO AN IMMEDIATE U-TURN AND BECOME AN ARTIST. IF LOOKING AT TEETH TAUGHT HIM ONE THING, THEN IT IS TO FOLLOW ONE’S HEART AND TRUE PASSION IN LIFE, FOR LIFE IS JUST TOO SHORT NOT TO! BRENT’S PAINTINGS OF TOYS, TEDDY BEARS AND SKULLS ARE BUT TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN REALLY.
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It’s a photographic project based on anti beauty, in an era where everything is fake, where everything is designed to appear, even a simple photo has lost its spirit due to the editing. I decided to create a project that did reflect reality, or where the secondary part of the picture becomes the main part.
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I choose not to limit myself to a specific theme, but overall the medium and the process is the same. I use digital collage and/or photo manipulation as a way to create a new narrative from familiar images.
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I make surreal collages with mostly found vintage material. Images are cut out and put in a reverse context, playing with exaggeration, scale, cultural references and sometimes topped with a hint of humor. I also love making stop motion videos, which I also post on Vine and Instagram.
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When I was a kid, all I would do was draw and collect pictures. And most of the time I would draw the pictures I collected. As a teenager, I had big interests in graphic design and illustration. It wasn’t until university, where I did illustration, design and photography in my first year, that I discovered photography. I received high distinctions in all subjects but decided that I wouldn’t spend the next four years doing something I knew, but rather something I knew little about, but loved as much. So,I majored in photo media and sub-majored in design.
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