It is hard not to be impressed by the young South Korean-born artist Minjae Lee. At just 22 years of age, he has amassed an impressive portfolio of colorful portrait illustrations created mostly with acrylic paint and markers. The dramatic pieces are full of pattern and texture that create the haunting imagery.
In her work, which scans a variety of mediums, including embroidery, found objects, and painting, Bay Area artist Lauren DiCioccio investigates the physical/tangible beauty of mass-produced media. As traditional media, especially newspapers and magazines, but even writing pads and office papers become obsolete, she wonders, “What will happen when we no longer touch information?”
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Brooklyn-based artist and designer Mike Perry does many different things but his paintings are unforgettable. While all of his work is unusual and innovative, it still has enough commercial appeal for big name companies to constantly hire him. I love his use of geometric shapes and bright, bold colors achieved with different mediums. He has such an impressive body of work that it’s impossible to choose favorites.
Argentinian artist Federico Saenz-Recio has some really great pieces of moody art. I especially love the pops of color in the black and white abstracts, as well as the mixture of simple childlike doodles and complex layers. Pictured above is Don’t Think…Feel.
While at the Architectural Digest Home Show, I discovered the amazing artwork of Amy Genser. These mixed media relief pieces are made of rolled up paper and resemble an underwater reef. I can’t imagine how much time it takes to roll up all of those pieces of paper. Pictured above is “Float.”
Rob the Life You Lead
Belgian artist Andy Wauman’s newest exhibition Black Fall begins on March 24th at Hunting and Collecting.
You might think that because I lean more toward a minimalist aesthetic that I don’t like glitter, sequins, or beads. Well, that’s not true when it comes to art. I’m really into the work of artist Stephanie Hirsch. A former fashion and swimwear designer with experience in beading and embroidery, she turned to the “canvas.”
London-based, Chilean-born artist Livia Marin has a new show coming up at House of Propellers called Nature Morte, in which she explores restoration and repair of modest historic objects through the joining of 2D and 3D.
From the press release:
Livia Marin’s second exhibition at House of Propellers brings together aspects of painting, photography, ceramic, textile, and sculpture. Under the formal rule of Nature Morte, the French term for Still Life, Marin appropriates this genre historically relegated to secondary spaces, supposedly lacking in greatness and scarcely ever displayed in the big salons. When we think of the Still Life as a work for interpretation, we see how Marin employs the genre by using its shortcomings, its ostensibly marginality, and its modest anonymity. The work becomes an exercise in precariousness and its possibilities, as well as an allegory for the Latin American contingency.
For Livia Marin to explore the composition of the Still Life is to think about the hierarchy of objects: both their spatial, social and political orders. And also to give a place to all that is forgotten and cast aside in aesthetic practice. The stitching technique applied to the photographs is related to a system of restoration and repair. In a contemporary culture of simultaneously buying and binning, these objects are a powerful reminder that no part of material culture can escape the ideological connotations of value.
What: Livia Marin Nature Morte
When: October 6, 2010 – October 29, 2010
Where: House of Propellers, 5 Back Hill London EC1R 5EN
