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A New Global (Digital) Culture

June 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Martin Grasser and Jiyun Ha (aka 2ppl) are friends from Art Center who co-produced GFS using photocopiers and newspapers from all around the world. What they created was a wealth of new imagery, all appropriated from existing imagery. Their idea is very simple yet also pretty mind-blowing.

The Global from Scratch Project is an installation which attempts to capture the emergence of a new global culture born out of technological advances… (which have) eliminated many of the boundaries that in the past have separated people into unique geographic and nationalistic cultures. As these cultural traditions begin to fade and change, we see a new culture, a global culture, created almost from scratch.

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Xerox paintings – the artists’ favorites from GFS.

 

A Poetic Twist On Street Art

May 16th, 2011 · No Comments

Robert Montgomery’s WORDS IN THE CITY AT NIGHT and hijacked neon signs via design work life. Appropriation is a big theme in the British artist’s work – he is known for hijacking advertising space around cities and plastering his own politically-charged poetry on top.

I love his message here.

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Look familiar? This is an exact replica of  the iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada” sign.

Clark Goolsby’s Dead Man

February 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment

I don’t know what’s more impressive – Dead Man, this larger-than-life sculpture by Clark Goolsby or the fact that this is the artist’s first project of this kind.

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To further complicate matters Goolsby and his wife moved cross-country from LA to Brooklyn while Clark was working on Dead Man. So the piece has been shipped twice: once to Brooklyn while it was in-progress and then back again to LA after it was completed.

A few months ago while Goolsby was working on the piece in Brooklyn I was able to see the piece in-progress, and the scale and craftsmanship was really incredible. Dead Man, along with a sculpture of floating hands and several paintings, are at POVevolving Gallery in Los Angeles through March 12th.

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Curious just how someone puts together something of this magnitude? Clark put together this awesome time-lapse video that made me tired just watching him!

Out of Order

January 28th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Out of Order (via seesaw) was a collaborative installation by Laurenz Brunner & Marianne Vierø that took place back in 2005.

Don’t you love when art unveils more than what first meets the eye? (That element of surprise or intrigue is certainly one way of describing “good” art.) While this photograph looks like it’s of a grouping of Rothko-inspired paintings, it turns out you’re actually looking at the cover of library books (53 to be exact) that the artists hand-picked and mounted on the wall.

The back story of this project is that the artists combed a library to uncover visual patterns created by groupings of books. Would you have guessed that from that first shot?

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Sugar and Spice And Everything Nice

November 7th, 2010 · No Comments

How nuts are these installations by Pip and Pop (aka Tanya Schultz and Nicole Andrijevic) of Perth, Australia?  It’s a little girl’s gaudiest, wildest fantasy come true! via The Jealous Curator.

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And some likely inspirations from an 80’s upbringing…

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Isn’t it strange how every single one of these pop culture icons has been reinvented (and many have also been sexed up) for the next gen? What happened to liking something because it’s old-school?

What’s Pink and Sticky and Looks 3-D?

November 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Aakash Nihalani’s tape installations, of course! (via Pattern Pulp) Nihalani’s show Overlap opened yesterday at Bose Pacia Gallery in Brooklyn and features some of his more permanent work such as paintings and photography. While we’re on the topic of pink tape, I have to name-drop my other favorite pink-tape wielding artist, Esther Ramirez.

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