Leslie Awender, Lisa Bartleson, Kevin Bernstein, Richard Bruland, Todd Carpenter, York Chang, Hollis Cooper, Jennifer Faist, Steven Fujimoto, Libby Gerber, Michael Giancristiano, Tim Gratkowski, Jenny Hager, Steve Hampton, Stephanie Han, Brad Howe, Michele Jaquis, Flora Kao, Rebecca Lowry, Jason Macaya, Arlene Mead, Janet Milhomme, Andy Moses, Hung Viet Ngyuen, Jorge Oswaldo, Antonio Pelayo, Christina Pierson, Mei Xian Qiu, Bryan Ricci, Katherine Rohrbacher, Natasa Prosenc Stearns, Gina Stepaniuk, Sayon Syprasoeuth, Meeson Pae Yang, Penny Young
With the sun shining and scaffolding removed, wraps have come off London’s largest graffiti mural, covering two sides of a six-storey building in King’s Cross. Members of the Agents of Change crew with London based Remi/Rough, Edinburgh’s Steve More, LX.One from Paris, LA-basedAugustine Kofie, and David Shillinglaw created this colourful geometrical artwork using 160 litres of spray paint.
Looking forward to checking this out later in the summer.
Photo credit: Butterfly for Arrested Motion.
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This Mural was commissioned by SA Studios for Pepsi on the famed De La Barracuda wall. Artist Jorge Oswaldo paid homage to historic Pepsi-Cola logos by deconstructing them and rearranging them to create a subtle white backdrop. The foreground which resembles half of a “globe” centers around a more exuberant Pepsi Brand. With clusters of shapes, explosions, fizz and pop it fuses a classical Jorge style arrangement with the vibrant energy of a newer Pepsi generation. Check out the rest of the photos from day and see how install went.
Artist/Designer: Jorge Oswaldo
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Art Direction: Rob Abeyta
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SA Studios
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De La Barracuda
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I love clouds and installations and art. This dude’s stuff is pretty rad.
That’s not photoshop; that’s an actual cloud hovering inside an actual room. Artist Berndnaut Smilde merges art and science to create small man-made clouds that exist — albeit for just a moment — indoors.
Smilde uses a fog machine to make the actual clouds, but also carefully regulates the humidity and temperature. Even so, these installations exists for a mere moment before dissipating inside the room. If you’re not there in the moment, then you only get to experience these brief scientific sculptures as photographs.
I’ve often look at Ellsworth Kelly for inspiration on color and shape. His minimal aesthetics and mastery of clean surfaces makes him one of my art heroes. The fact that he is still creating some really great art and remains active in the art world sets such a high standard for the rest of the creative community. One can only aspire to have such a life. His works are timeless.
Throughout his career, Kelly has worked with curvilinear shapes, exploring their abstract potential without losing their biomorphic allusions. As seen in the first gallery, he introduces variations of scale and color, suspending forms gracefully on the white ground of the paper. The second gallery presents Kelly’s first engagement with printmaking — Suite of Twenty-Seven Lithographs (1964–65), created for Maeght Éditeur — which is a kind of concordance of forms Kelly had been refining in his paintings during the prior decade. The inherently repetitive nature of the printing process allowed the artist to reshuffle these basic shapes in a range of colors while maintaining cohesion throughout the suite.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents the first retrospective of the artist’s prolific print practice since the late 1980s. Runs through April 22, 2012.
I was recently asked to answer some questions for Skinit regarding my creative career. It was my pleasure to be able to reflect on my life a bit and see how far I’ve come. Shoutouts to the crew at Skinit for making it happen.
What has been your biggest challenge as an artist/designer?
My biggest challenge is balancing my time being both an artist & a designer. I think the best work I do usually involves handmade elements combined with good design. When you’re an “artist” it’s more about the expression and experimentation with different ideas and mediums. Whereas with design, it’s much more about consideration of a specific goal or audience and the execution so it has to be edited and reduced. To work as both a designer and artist efficiently, you have to focus and plan out a lot of your time.
What is the message that you hope to convey through your work?
I always wanted my work to connect to a broader audience no matter what the medium. Whether it’s through painting, sculpture or even through skins. I enjoy when people can connect with my ideas. Doing designs on skins has allowed me to reach a much broader audience.
How old were you when you first realized your artistic talent, and how long was it before you knew that this was what you wanted to do for a living?
I started drawing when I was about 10 years old, but it didn’t really get serious till I got into Mundelein High School. My school had a really great art department. The teachers there were all really amazing and they constantly pushed us to do more and seek out new opportunities. Pretty much after that, I really didn’t look back. Art became a part of who I was. It was in my DNA to make stuff. There was never a moment in my upbringing that I could ever see myself not doing something creative with my life.
Playing off of that last question, if you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing?
Okay, so not as exciting as you would expect, but I’d be sitting in a room somewhere just thinking. Lately I’ve been doing a lot more thinking about what the next project or art piece might be. Some people call it meditation, I like to call it spacing out. I’m always one step ahead of myself. The artwork that results is just a tangible, visual expression of all the thoughts in my head. I like to think. I’d be sitting on a rock somewhere just sitting and thinking – but it would be a cool rock. So yeah, probably that, oh, and probably traveling the world. I’d be on an exotic rock, somewhere cool, thinking.
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Here’s my latest creation and the beginning of a new direction for my work. I decided to create an abstract self portrait using the logos to represent the brands I drink, wear, and use on daily basis. The bright colors and composition are heavily influenced by Frank Stella, Murakami, and Keith Haring. The painting is made with Automotive florescent and sparklescent paint. Its painted on a canvas that measures 48″ x 48″.
