New paintings on Amy Sol’s new blog. She just gets better and better it seems. She has a new group show coming up Feb 1st at Gallery 1988 SF. The show also includes Camilla d’Errico, Caia Koopman, Lily Piri, and Krista Huot.
Jennifer Maestre’s pencil sculptures are delightful.
Looking forward to Audrey Kawasaki’s upcoming solo show at Copro Nason Gallery on Feb 9.
This is a project by Kent Rogowski, and my boyfriend bought me the book from Amazon
Bears, is a series of portraits of the most unusual sort: ordinary teddy bears that have been turned inside out and restuffed. Each animal’s appearance is determined by the necessities of the manufacturing process. Simple patterns and devices never meant to be seen are now prominent physical characteristics, giving each one a distinctly quirky personality: their fasteners become eyes, their seams become scars, and their stuffing creeps out in the most unexpected places. Together these images form a topology of strange yet oddly familiar creatures. They are at once hideous yet cuddly, disturbing yet endearing, absurd yet adorable, while offering a metaphor for us all to consider. These bears, which have lived and loved and lost as much as their owners, have suffered and endured through it all. It is by virtue of revealing their inner core might we better understand our own.
Book sculptures by Mike Stilkey, see more.
Aya Uekawa , born in Tokyo and based in NYC where she’s currently chasing her MFA at Hunter College, the 29-year-old painter has managed to escape the ubiquitous “Superflat” imagery of her homeland to forge her own distinct technique by blending styles borrowed from the Flemish figurative masters and the decorative arts, resulting in a series of fascinating and obsessively rendered tableauxs that seem like stills from introspective dreamscapes. And while her work does contrast elements of three-dimensional portraiture with 2D background and clothing treatments, it’s in the style of the great European icon painters, rather than the graphic artists of her homeland.
The New York Times just did a photo feature on shopdropping, a form of ‘culture jamming’ where artists covertly leave their work amid the products on the shelves of stores.
Kareena Zerefos likes to make pictures. She works as a freelance illustrator and designer from her own studio in Sydney. I love the vintage feeling, the simple and elegant style of her art.
Tetsuo Ikeda is an artist from Japan. Born in October 1969 in Nagano Prefecture, Tetsuo currently works and resides in Tokyo. Prepubescent boys are frequent subjects of his paintings, alongside characters like dogs and robots, with other irrelevant objects.
