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Check out Carrot Clothing….Radical designs, amazing graphic t’s…
Show some love to the new line…www.carrotclothing.net
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DJ DIVERSE = Rocking the dance floor
F.A.D - Fashion Alliance of Des Moines - Website Launch Party
Benefit Raffle will profit the Animal Rescue League of Iowa
many more details still to come….
les mots via sexinart
les mots - yummy grungey fashion goodness. Love it. I had to check it all out. (cheers joao for the link!). via sexinart
Nicholas Jones & Dan Tague via Art MoCo
There is fabulous interview with Australian artist Nicholas Jones over at Design Files, along with numerous photos of his work. Jones makes intricate sculptures out of old books, an elaborate series of cuts and folds.
Dan Tague’s prints of folded cash first look like crumpled up money, but when the viewer takes a moment to read the message created by carefully folding the bill just so, all is revealed. Via Notcot.
http://www.antoine-helbert.com/
This master painter, sculptor and illustrator from Strasbourg, France has the stylistic graphics that range from fashion, history, and advertising. Each illustrated compartment are very different. His portfolio is outstanding and pushes the envelope for the ability of illustrators to turn out more than just line and marker drawings.
Antoine Helbert’s portraits unleash a dark stare into the surreal surroundings of his models. He paints an ambiance so startling, you can’t help but stare. It should be no surprise that I relay he is also the scenic painter for Strasbourg’s Opera. His technique is oil on canvas for rich colors with eye-popping light sources.
His website contains a gorgeous collection of all his mediums and work. Antoine has created many posters for exhibitions, music festivals, and cultural events. He is a rising French star aiming high on his illustrative canvas of possibilities.
Shit We’re Diggin: The Artwork Of Paul Alexander Thornton via Wooster Collective
You can see more of Paul’s work here.
125 Magazine states that they are the only magazine in the world, which acts as a completely unbiased photography gallery, open to both emerging and established artists, and making affordable art available to all. That’s just awesome. Use the search field at the bottom left corner to search what you’re looking for (in this case, “sex” or “art”!).
Seen On The Streets Of Korea - via Wooster
via Wooster
Photo above by CRS8
Street Anatomy, a blog on medicine, art, and design. Terrific gallery of anatomically themed street art. check it out here.
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Shepard Fairey, founder of Obey Giant and world-renowned stencil artist, talks to Crave about the inspiration behind his work and his motivation as an artist.
Check out Part 1 of a 4 part video series here.
Amazing stuff!
Lee Ann just sent over a couple new pieces….I really love her work. The first one is called Eternal Embrace and it instantly moved me.
Isn’t that what most of us are looking for anyways? Someone to lay with forever?
Lee Ann Conlan
Kelly Tunstall’s paintings and illustrations of tall thin young women are almost like fashion design sketches. Tunstall’s heroines (based on friends, family, stylish women she sees walking down the street) are all beautiful, sexy and ladylike, to better show off their glamour dresses, ballet wear or lingerie. Yet some do sport quirks as well, maybe two heads here or a pair of antlers or bunny ears there, just to keep things interesting.
Artist: Kelly Tunstall
+ kellytunstall.com
Here’s some Banksy works that will be up for auction at Sotheby’s in London on the 28th of February.
Banksy - UNTITLED (HAPPY COPPERS)
Auction Estimate - 30,000—40,000 GBP
Banksy - UNTITLED
Auction Estimate - 15,000—20,000 GBP
Banksy - MONA LISA
Auction Estimate - 30,000—40,000 GBP
Banksy - POLICE
Auction Estimate - 30,000—40,000 GBP
Hazel Dooney is one of Australia’s most famous erotic painters and Self Vs. Self is her very smart, often insightful blog.
“Injected”thanks again Art Moco
Not hard to recognize Tim Biskup’s background in animation that shines through loud and clear in his painting. His skills as a draftsman and technical painter have stood Biskup in good stead as he applies his technique to fine art and vinyl figures and t-shirts. Biskup defines his work, which has become darker over the years, as “baroque modernism”. This evolution is certainly evident when one compares Injected (2007) to a piece such as Ghonner Group (2003), but this is not to say it is easy to choose one over the other.Artist: Tim Biskup
+ timbiskup.com
“Untitled Museum” thanks Art MoCo
Canadian-born and Barcelona-based, Michael Swaney creates surrealistic collages that are delicate works with much fine detail. Swaney’s scenes combine architectural forms as backdrops for figures that play out a narrative left to the viewer to decipher. There is recurring museum motif; the idea of artefacts is fairly strong in Swaney’s work and the mixture of elements in every composition is not dissimilar to an exhibition of the various components within every story.
Artist: Mike Swaney
+ michaelswaney.com
A lot of Ingmar Alge’s paintings are reflections of architecture that brings to mind a suburbia of “somewhere else”. There is a carefully constructed flatness to the work, as though the artist has built up layers to create a façade that hides the truth. The viewer is given a take-it-or-leave-it sort of choice, and to get through to the horizon, must first get lost in the lonely landscape provided. How refreshed will that swimming pool be? How cosy is that home? What sort of conversation takes place on the two chairs?
Artist: Ingmar Alge
+ kuckei-kuckei.de
“Portable Cellular Phone Booth”
Nick Rodrigues is a Boston-based performance sculptor whose unusual work is themed on human interaction. Rodrigues incorporates these pieces into public settings and captures public reaction on video. The Porta Party is a booth the size of a standard telephone booth or portable toilet, but when placed on a street corner with party sounds emanating, it gets more attention than the standard services would. The diePod is a statement on how anyone born now will have some sort of electronic device on them until their death, and the Portable Cellular Phone Booth speaks of avoiding real time interactions. Shown here are stills from the videos on Rodrigues’ website.Artist: Nick Rodrigues
+ nickrodrigues.com
A Short Video Of Anthony Lister’s Painting Process 
Fresh Stuff From l.e.t. via Wooster
AIA National’s Best of the Best
Honors for Architecture:
Honors for Architecture:
Honors for Interior Architecture:
Honors for Urban Design:
For those of you keeping score from Catalyst State, Note: Brown 1, Phifer 1.
MoMA goes pre-fab:
Pre-fab housing is not for the Trailer Park anymore and 2 years after the Walker did the same: http://design.walkerart.org/prefab/ (The Walker show was excellent).
Walden in 2008?
Finding a retreat in the carpark because you “wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived…”
For the Birds:
An estimated 1 billion birds die annually in the United States as a result of striking buildings, bridges, and other manmade structures.
When you have to go…NYC has you covered.
The new public toilets in NYC, 25 cents and you’re covered but what follows is “possibly the longest and most awkward 20 to 30 seconds of a person’s day. The door slips open like an elevator, but then it stays open, to accommodate those who need extra time getting in. Meanwhile, men and women in suits walk past. It is very difficult to look inconspicuous in a bathroom on a sidewalk in New York with the door open.”
Only a mere $100,000 each and 14 gallons of water per use.
Very interesting work by Jaleh Afshar www.JALEHAFSHAR.com draw.paint.design.shoot.
Artworks by tetheredto:
It is not common when I encounter an artist and think, “Okay, I clearly don’t understand all the good things going on here, but there is more talent in front of me than I have the ability to comprehend.”
(Click on images to view them individually.)
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Shit We’re Diggin: “The Decapatator” In London
From Wired:
“Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been bombarding the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the heads from major adverts around town, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps. (Before and after images of a gruesomely guillotined model in a print ad, right).
Based on the images uploaded to his/her Flickr stream, “The East London Decapitator” as he/she has been dubbed, is largely striking mainstream advertisements, like this (my personal fav) High School Musical 2 poster.”
Kate Marshall is a UK based artist who likes to flirt between painting and drawing, using loose, wet lines on pale grounds to create images of femininity inspired by china figurines, dated porn, Boucher and gossip magazines.
Thanks to Brad Rippey:
Tate Modern Receives Grant:
Herzog and De Meuron get the opportunity to complete their vision at the Tate. To be completed by 2012.
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=1702
Server Rooms:
“Computer server rooms are at least as great a threat to the climate as SUVs or the global avaiation industry.” - New Scientist
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/server-rooms-and-future-of-humanism.html
coincides with the future of books?
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/future-warehouse-of-unwanted-books.html
Swank living in NoHo:
Subterranean Pharming:
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2007/12/cave-pharming.html
Vernacular innovation in the face of tragedy:
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2007/11/bridge-house-of-sierra-leone.html
Arcana Hotel:
http://www.monocle.com/sections/design/Web-Articles/Arcana-Hotel/
Steven Holl Talks with Charlie Rose:
30 minutes, but worth it and a plug for U of I School of Art and Art History (who wants to go on a road trip?).
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/07/23/3/a-conversation-with-architect-steven-holl
Some of Anish Kapoor’s recent work includes the Svayambh installation at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes and Munich’s Haus der Kunst where a huge beet red sculpture flows from one gallery to another, almost like a train car sliding through on matching red tracks. The material, which coats the doorways, is a mix of wax, paint and Vaseline, adding to the impression that the car-like structure has passed through. The name of the sculpture comes from Sanskrit and means self-generated, although there is an untitled sculpture of similar material and colour in Nantes as well.
Artist: Anish Kapoor
+ lissongallery.com
During New York Fashion Week, Elle MacPherson Intimates launched this cool interactive storefront that allows passersby to revel in voyeur style video footage of models through the window with their movements.
Shit We’re Diggin’: New Work By Jon Burgerman in Barcelona via Wooster
You can see more work from Jon’s current show in the ROJO space here.
YMI Jeans held a catwalk show in LA recently hosted by actress Brittany Snow (see below). (Source: Glam.com)
If you’re a marketer and trying to find a reliable and effective Street Team in Chicago.
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Resident Artists are very excited to present OUT OF PRINT, a collection of local artists all working within a printmaking medium or print related theme.
Exhibitors include Van Holmgren, Brent Houzenga, Michelle Phillips, Kyle Tehye, Adam Ferry, and John Solarz
The Fourth Street Theatre will be transformed for the evening into an overall visual experience showcasing established local artists.
Along with traditional 2D artforms there will also be installations, projections, performance art, and live music.
Expect the unexpected from these twenty somethings who are all trying to prove that they can make things happen right here in Iowa.
Musical entertainment will be provided by She Swings She Sways, an amazing four piece acoustic band from Fairfield, Iowa.
More musical acts are to be announced.
Brent E. Houzenga
Resident Artists, Director
www.brenthouzenga.com
brenthouzenga@hotmail.com
309-255-1209
What: Resident Artists : OUT OF PRINT
When: Opening Reception - November 2nd 5-10 PM
Displayed throughout November
Where: Fourth Street Theatre
214 4th St.
Des Moines, IA 50310
(next to Java Joes)
RESIDENT ARTISTS : OUT OF PRINT
From Art MoCo:
Oriol Nicolàs is a Barcelona-based artist and illustrator whose works are simple and bold. His use of line and colour is very effective, with striking results, especially through the use of red. The Red Ones, in fact, is a wonderful piece, and it is the combination of the hoods, the beards and the perspective that pull it all together. The detail of the two different pairs of footwear is also a nice touch.
Artist: Oriol Nicolàs
+ oriolnicolas.com
Went to the Chagoya opening at the Des Moines Art Center last night…And was quite impressed with his work….Went to the lecture on Tuesday and listened to him speak about his pieces - to see them in person was a great experience. I recommend this show to anyone…Amazing work!
Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia
September 21, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Anna K. Meredith Gallery and Print Gallery, Art Center on Grand
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This 25-year survey exhibition presents a “world of cultural hybrids and collisions” in the work of Mexican-born, San Francisco artist Enrique Chagoya. The artist taps Mexico’s complex history, international politics, world religions, art history, and popular culture in this exhibition comprising more than 70 lively paintings, mixed-media codices (accordion-folded books), large-scale charcoal and pastel drawings, and numerous prints. Drawing on the rich tradition of Mexican political prints, Chagoya’s intelligent and witty narratives satirize and, at times, celebrate the cultural and psychological consequences of more than 500 years of contact and influence between worlds.
A 100–page, full–color, bilingual–English and Spanish–catalogue spanning Chagoya’s career will accompany the exhibition and will include a foreword by Art Center Director Jeff Fleming; essays by Patricia Hickson, Daniela Pérez, and Robert Storr; a catalogue of works in the exhibition; an artist’s chronology; and selected exhibition history. The catalogue will be available for purchase in the Art Center’s Museum Shop.
This exhibition is organized by Patricia Hickson, curator and downtown gallery m