not sure if i want to take brooklyn-based artist julia dault‘s paintings too seriously or not. with titles like “rowdy cats,” “bunga bunga,” and “skull crusher,” it seems like julia’s not asking us to ponder silently about abstraction, but rather wants to engage the viewer with color and roller-coaster-rides along her lines. her sculptures...
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JIM ISERMANN—– born in the wrong decade? this southern california-based artist has been producing trippy technicolor paintings, furniture, shag carpet, rainbow textiles, and vinyl decals since the 80s, reaching into the depths of kitschy 60s and 70s design and appropriating essential elements. he’s also pretty good at securing corporate commissions, as is evident from...
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thanks to a tip from cp, we can add japanese artist, koichi kurita, to our list of dirt-lovers. koichi drives around japan collecting soil samples from various areas, spending the night in his pickup truck. after drying and sifting the dirt, he arranges it lovingly into “libraries” encased in glass tubes or installs precisely-arranged-piles...
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via girlhula my birthday’s not until february but i’m already having dreams of a RAINBOW CAKE with vanilla frosting topped & coconut!!!!! what could be better than that?!?!! then i started googling and got some pretty intense and slightly sickening results…i think i already have a sugar headache. via serious eats via omnomicon via...
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brandi strickland‘s colorful, age-of-aquarius collages have been catching my eye on various art blogs for a while now. her site & shop, paperwhistle, is a clever way of making her work available to the masses, documenting her process and offering affordable prints and original works. when i read that she had just moved to richmond, virginia,...
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today is diwali, the hindu festival of light! although every country and region celebrates in different ways for different reasons, it’s generally known as the celebration of the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness, and the inner, transcendent reality over all “real-world” obstacles. it’s kind of a mix of christmas and new...
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stripes. flag banners. rainbows. massive public installation. i’ve been obsessing over all of these things lately, so daniel buren’s work is really resonating right now.
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channeling the simplicity of the color wheel while doing some sketches for a HUGE upcoming project…..here’s some inspiration:
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i have this t-shirt by josh podoll that we got in the mail at metier a while back. it’s got botanical drawings and doodles of animals and it says “a diagram of poisonous thoughts” in a simple script. it includes “envy,” “self-destruction,” “never satisfied” and “paranoia” among other destructive behaviors and thoughts. i always...
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have you guys seen holy mountain? i watched it once before and was quite intrigued but confused. this time around i paid attention for as long as i could and was still unable to decipher the barrage of symbols and signs. visually very very stimulating (lots of pattern, repetition, multiplicity, psychedelic scenes and colors)...
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