This art project by Emily Grundon would probably be perfect for our Skim Milk column but I couldn’t wait. Called Nonspace, the projects aims to highlight the architectural geometry of space through a study of light and shadow. Looking to the corners, Emily puts the focus on the lines and angles of the art gallery itself – as opposed to that displayed within it. She hopes to draw more interest to the details that often go unnoticed, and as she says, “hopefully creating a quiet but intriguing view of the simplicity and value of architecture.”
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If you’ve never seen the work of Italian artist Alberto Seveso, well, get ready. His latest series of underwater ink photographs is entitled a due Colori and they are simply breathtaking. The images are made by taking high-speed photographs of two colors of ink mixing with water. The results are beautiful and serene studies of color and depth. The series is completely mesmerizing and dreamlike, and I just want to stare at them for hours.
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In a series of work entitled String Mirrors, South Korean artist Hong Sungchul creates three-dimensional sculptures/photographs made of string. The pieces consist of hundreds of printed on elastic strings that when lined up together, display an image. The strings are strung on several rows giving the pieces varied depth that is both delicate and beautifully presented.
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I just discovered Artlica, an exclusive art network that sells limited edition contemporary photographs from talented emerging artists. My favorite part of this website is looking at the photographs as a whole. They are so well-chosen and they set a mood and tone when viewed simultaneously. There is some lovely minimalism happening here…
Here are some of my faves:
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Chinese fashion designer Qiu Hao teamed up with French photographer Matthieu Belin to shoot his F/W 2011 Serpens Collection. The collection was named after the Serpens constellation (a reptile) and was meant to pay tribute to it. By working with Belin, the line in turn becomes a whole new work of art. The images are just as striking and edgy as the clothing, making this joint venture a strong one.
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Lucas Simões creates very dramatic and three-dimensional works created from portraits. He crafts a pattern and cuts away pieces from each photograph and then stacks them on top of one another to get a geometric topographic effect.
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I love Erin Hanson’s work that she features on her website called Recovering Lazyholic. The Austin, Texas-based photographer and illustrator started the site to, well, help cure her laziness.
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The Photographer
Fashion writer and photo stylist, turned photographer, Heidi Lender’s new series She Can Leap Tall Buildings, is a nod to her mom, and all women who do it all, and do it all well. Heidi poses wearing a black wig (along with the occasional prop) in front of black graphic backgrounds, representing all the different roles women take on. Having only picked up a camera in 2009, her impressive work in this self-portrait series is both whimsical and thoughtful.
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RIGHTTORETURN(DONAUDELTA), 2010
The Photo Drips series, by German-born, Brooklyn-based Markus Linnenbrink, is pure rainbow-colored goodness. His pieces are positively dream-like and are explorations in color and texture all rolled into one.
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Konstantin Grcic, In Periferia, color photography (2011), Limited Edition of 100
Filed Under is a project started by Annahita Kamali and Florian Böhm to explore contradictions in today’s society. Their idea was to show the ambivalence of excessively used images in our visually obsessed culture and publish them onto fabric, and in turn, they create a handmade item. Once that image is printed on silk, the image becomes an object and the object becomes an image.
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