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Jimenez Lai
(04 March 2008) - A simple description of Jimenez Lai's work is difficult. Taking architectural plans and renderings, the Ohio-based artist brings them into the world of comics, drawings and models in two- and three-dimensions. The juxtaposition exposes the absurdity of CAD in comics and comics in CAD. (Click image for detail.) This isn't the first time Jimenez Lai has been written up but now he's breaking through...
(04 March 2008) - A simple description of Jimenez Lai's work is difficult. Taking architectural plans and renderings, the Ohio-based artist brings them into the world of comics, drawings and models in two- and three-dimensions. The juxtaposition exposes the absurdity of CAD in comics and comics in CAD. (Click image for detail.) This isn't the first time Jimenez Lai has been written up but now he's breaking through...
More Wants For Sale
(04 March 2008) - New York artists Christine Santora and Justin Gignac are at it again, launching another series on their “Wants For Sale” website. Justin dropped us a line with a few teaser images from their new collection launching today at noon, stating “We're pretty excited because we think these are the best paintings yet. We have "To Get Into MoMA" (pictured on right) which is the...
(04 March 2008) - New York artists Christine Santora and Justin Gignac are at it again, launching another series on their “Wants For Sale” website. Justin dropped us a line with a few teaser images from their new collection launching today at noon, stating “We're pretty excited because we think these are the best paintings yet. We have "To Get Into MoMA" (pictured on right) which is the...
Absolut Machines: Absolut Quartet
(28 February 2008) - Absolut Machines is Absolut's promotional initiative that explores where technology meets design in the form of two "machines." Last night we got to check out one, the Absolut Quartet, an interactive multi-instrumental robotic machine. It consists of a marimba played by rubber balls precisely shot from a robotic cannon, a series of spinning wineglasses dampened by robotic fingers and an array of percussive instruments....
(28 February 2008) - Absolut Machines is Absolut's promotional initiative that explores where technology meets design in the form of two "machines." Last night we got to check out one, the Absolut Quartet, an interactive multi-instrumental robotic machine. It consists of a marimba played by rubber balls precisely shot from a robotic cannon, a series of spinning wineglasses dampened by robotic fingers and an array of percussive instruments....
Nathaniel M. Quinn: Deception, Animals, Blood, and Pain
(28 February 2008) - by Sheena SoodBrooklyn fashionistas might be familiar with Harriet's Alter Ego, a women-run Brooklyn boutique. It opened eight years ago and continues to showcase clothing collections and one-of-a-kind pieces made by owners Hekima Hapa and Ngozi Odita . The back of the store also houses a small art gallery showcasing monthly exhibits by emerging artists. Next week artist Nathaniel M. Quinn will put up...
(28 February 2008) - by Sheena SoodBrooklyn fashionistas might be familiar with Harriet's Alter Ego, a women-run Brooklyn boutique. It opened eight years ago and continues to showcase clothing collections and one-of-a-kind pieces made by owners Hekima Hapa and Ngozi Odita . The back of the store also houses a small art gallery showcasing monthly exhibits by emerging artists. Next week artist Nathaniel M. Quinn will put up...
Adam Makarenko
(28 February 2008) - With bee populations in decline over the past several years, Adam Makarenko has created an imaginary world where bees flourish. In his Miniature Apiary series, the Canadian artist explores the exploitation of bees within a fictitious world he has called the Langstroth Range, which is a land of rare plants and giant bees that becomes endangered when a man named William Bjorn moves in....
(28 February 2008) - With bee populations in decline over the past several years, Adam Makarenko has created an imaginary world where bees flourish. In his Miniature Apiary series, the Canadian artist explores the exploitation of bees within a fictitious world he has called the Langstroth Range, which is a land of rare plants and giant bees that becomes endangered when a man named William Bjorn moves in....
Kevin Ledo: The Guiding Light
(27 February 2008) - In his latest show Montreal based artist Kevin Ledo references images from highly visible fashion advertisements such as Dior, Prada, and Louis Vuitton. He aims to draw parallels between modern fashion advertising and iconic Christian art of medieval times by transposing methods of religious paintings into an advertising context. Kevin's paintings have been on display to date in both Taiwan and Canada. He is...
(27 February 2008) - In his latest show Montreal based artist Kevin Ledo references images from highly visible fashion advertisements such as Dior, Prada, and Louis Vuitton. He aims to draw parallels between modern fashion advertising and iconic Christian art of medieval times by transposing methods of religious paintings into an advertising context. Kevin's paintings have been on display to date in both Taiwan and Canada. He is...
Color Chart
(27 February 2008) - "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" opens this Sunday, 2 March 2008 at MoMA. On view through 12 May 2008, the exhibition explores artists' use of readymade color—from car paint to colored tape—featuring works by 44 modern and contemporary artists including Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Angela Bulloch. "Color Chart" takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item...
(27 February 2008) - "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" opens this Sunday, 2 March 2008 at MoMA. On view through 12 May 2008, the exhibition explores artists' use of readymade color—from car paint to colored tape—featuring works by 44 modern and contemporary artists including Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Angela Bulloch. "Color Chart" takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item...
Kitoko Dome Gallery: Vernissage
(22 February 2008) - by Maria Argü̈elloArtist and curator Francesco LoCastro is Miami's current leader of the pop surrealism movement with the opening of his new Miami Beach gallery, Kitoko Dome. Already a presence on the scene, during the latest Art Basel Miami Beach he curated one of the most popular shows, Gen Art's Vanguard exhibition "No One Belongs Here More than You." He's also been garnering increasing...
(22 February 2008) - by Maria Argü̈elloArtist and curator Francesco LoCastro is Miami's current leader of the pop surrealism movement with the opening of his new Miami Beach gallery, Kitoko Dome. Already a presence on the scene, during the latest Art Basel Miami Beach he curated one of the most popular shows, Gen Art's Vanguard exhibition "No One Belongs Here More than You." He's also been garnering increasing...
Barnaby Barford: Private Lives
(21 February 2008) - On 11 March 2008, the irreverent ceramic artist Barnaby Barford will be exhibiting a new series of subversive objects at David Gill Galleries in London. The latest collection, "Private Lives," shows Barford treading into uncharted territory, repositioning figures from pop culture and cartoons for his witty mises-en-scènes. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in 2002, Barford has been working with found ceramics...
(21 February 2008) - On 11 March 2008, the irreverent ceramic artist Barnaby Barford will be exhibiting a new series of subversive objects at David Gill Galleries in London. The latest collection, "Private Lives," shows Barford treading into uncharted territory, repositioning figures from pop culture and cartoons for his witty mises-en-scènes. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in 2002, Barford has been working with found ceramics...
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 of human anxiety, fear and regret. Macabre, maybe, but always with a sensitivity for black humor, Madore spends hours and hours layering and texturing his...
(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 of human anxiety, fear and regret. Macabre, maybe, but always with a sensitivity for black humor, Madore spends hours and hours layering and texturing his...
Sanna Annukka
(20 February 2008) - I first locked eyes on Sanna Annukka's beautiful designs when British band Keane commissioned her to create the artwork for their second album Under The Iron Sea. Her silkscreen creations are a cool blend of her Finnish heritage (most notably, the epic poem The Kalevala), as well as the art of the Far East. ...
(20 February 2008) - I first locked eyes on Sanna Annukka's beautiful designs when British band Keane commissioned her to create the artwork for their second album Under The Iron Sea. Her silkscreen creations are a cool blend of her Finnish heritage (most notably, the epic poem The Kalevala), as well as the art of the Far East. ...
David Kassan
(18 February 2008) - Brooklyn-based artist David Kassan paints such lifelike portraits, they practically leap off the canvas. From his website: "As an expression of his own calculated observation and visual consumption of surrounding environment, introspective glimpses of reality imbue the art of David Kassan. By immersing himself into his subject matter, Kassan is able to infuse his painting with life and realism." (Click image for detail.)...
(18 February 2008) - Brooklyn-based artist David Kassan paints such lifelike portraits, they practically leap off the canvas. From his website: "As an expression of his own calculated observation and visual consumption of surrounding environment, introspective glimpses of reality imbue the art of David Kassan. By immersing himself into his subject matter, Kassan is able to infuse his painting with life and realism." (Click image for detail.)...
Two Lines Align: Drawings and Graphic Design by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
(18 February 2008) - I've always been drawn to the ambiguous nature of Geoff McFetridge's graphic design. His distinctive, and highly personal, visual language, built around "logofying ideas," reduce graphical narratives to the point where meaning is largely derived from the viewer's own imagination. Opening this Wednesday at the Redcat Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, an exhibition features his work alongside the veteran visual artist Ed Fella. Fella's...
(18 February 2008) - I've always been drawn to the ambiguous nature of Geoff McFetridge's graphic design. His distinctive, and highly personal, visual language, built around "logofying ideas," reduce graphical narratives to the point where meaning is largely derived from the viewer's own imagination. Opening this Wednesday at the Redcat Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, an exhibition features his work alongside the veteran visual artist Ed Fella. Fella's...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Richard Dupont
(15 February 2008) - For our 99th episode, we visit the Manhattan studio of Richard Dupont who makes arresting figurative work. His sculptures initially caught our eye when they made an appearance in our very first video at Art Basel and now Dupont's busy with his large-scale installation due to open at the Lever House next month. In this video he unmolds one of his distorted replicas of his body that he made using military scans, walking us through his process and some of the ideas that inform his work.
(15 February 2008) - For our 99th episode, we visit the Manhattan studio of Richard Dupont who makes arresting figurative work. His sculptures initially caught our eye when they made an appearance in our very first video at Art Basel and now Dupont's busy with his large-scale installation due to open at the Lever House next month. In this video he unmolds one of his distorted replicas of his body that he made using military scans, walking us through his process and some of the ideas that inform his work.
Swoon: Drown Your Boats
(15 February 2008) - Swoon's first Los Angeles solo exhibition, "Drown Your Boats" opens tomorrow, 16 February 2008 at New Image Art. Partially inspired by Angela Carter's collection of short stories "Burning Your Boats," which reinterprets traditional tales and twists the mundane, you can see the connection as Swoon work combines glimpses of everyday life, legends and variations on mythic themes in her own graceful style. Over the...
(15 February 2008) - Swoon's first Los Angeles solo exhibition, "Drown Your Boats" opens tomorrow, 16 February 2008 at New Image Art. Partially inspired by Angela Carter's collection of short stories "Burning Your Boats," which reinterprets traditional tales and twists the mundane, you can see the connection as Swoon work combines glimpses of everyday life, legends and variations on mythic themes in her own graceful style. Over the...
Jim Denevan
(15 February 2008) - Santa Cruz, CA-based artist Jim Denevan makes freehand drawings in sand, laboring up to seven hours and walking for as many as 30 miles to create artwork using no measuring aids whatsoever. (Click images for detail.) From above, the drawings are abstract patterns. But when looked at from the ground level, they take on a new form, challenging ideas of distance and perspective. Then,...
(15 February 2008) - Santa Cruz, CA-based artist Jim Denevan makes freehand drawings in sand, laboring up to seven hours and walking for as many as 30 miles to create artwork using no measuring aids whatsoever. (Click images for detail.) From above, the drawings are abstract patterns. But when looked at from the ground level, they take on a new form, challenging ideas of distance and perspective. Then,...
Tatsumi Orimoto Retrospective
(13 February 2008) - Believe in the power of bread. That was the idea behind Japanese artist Tatsumi Orimoto's "Bread Man" performance art series in the '90s. Meant as a unifying symbol of communication, he made his name with the body of work which involved global travel to places like Nepal and Germany with loaves of bread tied around his head while a puzzled public looked or laughed...
(13 February 2008) - Believe in the power of bread. That was the idea behind Japanese artist Tatsumi Orimoto's "Bread Man" performance art series in the '90s. Meant as a unifying symbol of communication, he made his name with the body of work which involved global travel to places like Nepal and Germany with loaves of bread tied around his head while a puzzled public looked or laughed...
Joe Sorren
(13 February 2008) - One would think a life out in Arizona would produce imagery of arid deserts and funny little plants that grow under such conditions. But Joe Sorren's paintings speak of hope, innocence and another world, with the bright sun rising high into the clouds over an endless ocean of dreams. Sorren's new painting "In the Morning, in the Tide," will show at Alix Sloan's new...
(13 February 2008) - One would think a life out in Arizona would produce imagery of arid deserts and funny little plants that grow under such conditions. But Joe Sorren's paintings speak of hope, innocence and another world, with the bright sun rising high into the clouds over an endless ocean of dreams. Sorren's new painting "In the Morning, in the Tide," will show at Alix Sloan's new...
Christopher Conte
(12 February 2008) - Picking up where H.R. Giger left off, Christopher Conte makes some pretty menacing bio-mechanical sculptures of robot insects and Terminator-esque skulls. It's nice to see the techno-goth flame still burning brightly....
(12 February 2008) - Picking up where H.R. Giger left off, Christopher Conte makes some pretty menacing bio-mechanical sculptures of robot insects and Terminator-esque skulls. It's nice to see the techno-goth flame still burning brightly....
Fray Issue 1: Busted!
(11 February 2008) - Busted! marks the first print edition of Fray.com’s long-running series of first-person true stories. Launched in the internet wilderness of 1996, it served the novel role of personal storytelling forum, eventually expanding to a series of live events and albums. With the new millennium came the inevitable over-saturation of blogs and online journals, pushing Fray into an indefinite hiatus, only to return last month...
(11 February 2008) - Busted! marks the first print edition of Fray.com’s long-running series of first-person true stories. Launched in the internet wilderness of 1996, it served the novel role of personal storytelling forum, eventually expanding to a series of live events and albums. With the new millennium came the inevitable over-saturation of blogs and online journals, pushing Fray into an indefinite hiatus, only to return last month...
Audrey Kawasaki: Mayoi Michi
(11 February 2008) - “Mayoi Michi” is a solo exhibit for Audrey Kawasaki that opened over the weekend and runs through next month at the Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica, California. The exhibition will highlight a new collection of Audrey's ethereal oil on wood paintings, along with a series of rare giclee prints on archival paper. (Click images for detail.) Previously noted on Cool Hunting in December...
(11 February 2008) - “Mayoi Michi” is a solo exhibit for Audrey Kawasaki that opened over the weekend and runs through next month at the Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica, California. The exhibition will highlight a new collection of Audrey's ethereal oil on wood paintings, along with a series of rare giclee prints on archival paper. (Click images for detail.) Previously noted on Cool Hunting in December...
Diem Chau and Jen Stark: In Effect
(08 February 2008) - "In Effect," another well-curated exhibition by the good folks at OKOK Gallery opens tomorrow and features new works and a collaboration from Diem Chau and Jen Stark, who both use common materials and turn them into subversive and sometimes hypnotizing works. Apparently we have a collective infatuation with the art of paper cutting, if our videos on Chen Hang Feng and Tom Gallant are...
(08 February 2008) - "In Effect," another well-curated exhibition by the good folks at OKOK Gallery opens tomorrow and features new works and a collaboration from Diem Chau and Jen Stark, who both use common materials and turn them into subversive and sometimes hypnotizing works. Apparently we have a collective infatuation with the art of paper cutting, if our videos on Chen Hang Feng and Tom Gallant are...
Pete Fowler: Bubblegum Psychedelic
(08 February 2008) - Pete Fowler's world is full of noisy guitars, big hair and cute monsters, all seen through very brightly-colored lenses. We've mentioned the cult graphic artist's work before with toys such as Action Man and his Be@rbrick, but his idiosyncratic style comes through to no better effect than in the new exhibition of paintings that opens today in London at the Stolen Space gallery. The...
(08 February 2008) - Pete Fowler's world is full of noisy guitars, big hair and cute monsters, all seen through very brightly-colored lenses. We've mentioned the cult graphic artist's work before with toys such as Action Man and his Be@rbrick, but his idiosyncratic style comes through to no better effect than in the new exhibition of paintings that opens today in London at the Stolen Space gallery. The...
Pop Subversion
(07 February 2008) - This Friday, 8 February 2008, Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, will play host to a large group of both established and emerging artists from the realms of street art, pop surrealism, lowbrow, illustration, print making, and tattoo. Through this group exhibition, promising young artists will have the chance to exhibit side by side with some of the more established artists in...
(07 February 2008) - This Friday, 8 February 2008, Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, will play host to a large group of both established and emerging artists from the realms of street art, pop surrealism, lowbrow, illustration, print making, and tattoo. Through this group exhibition, promising young artists will have the chance to exhibit side by side with some of the more established artists in...
Bongoût Gallery: Ghana Movie Posters
(06 February 2008) - For their premiere show, the new Bongoût Gallery in Berlin presents a show of '80s movie posters from Ghana opening tonight, Wednesday, 6 February 2008. Painted in oil on potato sacks, the paintings feature fantastic renderings of popular films which were shown in public screenings in homes, schools, social clubs and outdoors. Often the work of artists that may have not actually seen the...
(06 February 2008) - For their premiere show, the new Bongoût Gallery in Berlin presents a show of '80s movie posters from Ghana opening tonight, Wednesday, 6 February 2008. Painted in oil on potato sacks, the paintings feature fantastic renderings of popular films which were shown in public screenings in homes, schools, social clubs and outdoors. Often the work of artists that may have not actually seen the...
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