Ryan Bubnis Illustrations Have An Urban Folk Style That Draws On The Connectedness Of All Things

moray mair | Art and design | December 31, 2012

Ryan Bubnis illustrations have been described as ‘Urban Folk’, a style that attempts to draw on the connectedness of all things, the collective, the universal and the inherent power of objects.

His influences are derived from indigenous art, tribal markings and rituals full of geometric patterns, natural colours and bold lines. Working both traditionally and digitally he incorporates a variety of materials including found objects, paper, wood, canvas, aerosol, acrylics, vinyl, papier-mâché, graphite and India ink into his work. The result looks as if it could have been transcribed off an African mask or a Central American temple.

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Artemio Rodriguez Prints Are Medieval In Style And Satirical In Content

moray mair | Art and design | December 31, 2012

Artemio Rodriguez prints are grounded in the traditions of the Middle Ages while addressing contemporary issues in the social satirical tradition of Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada. He works primarily in black and white with a style that emphasises simplicity and clarity, the motifs so closely tied into Mexican Catholic culture.

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Edel Rodriguez Illustrations Are Heavily Influenced By The Colourful Revolutionary Posters Of Cuba

moray mair | Art and design | December 31, 2012

Sometimes when you’re trawling through the net looking for good art to show your readers you come across an artist whose work blows you way. Edel Rodriguez illustrations do that to me. They leave me speechless. They are magnificent.

Brought up in Cuba in the 70′s Rodriguez was heavily influenced by the colourful revolutionary posters and parades of his country before leaving with his family on the boats out of Havana to America. After training in New York he ended up as art director in Time magazine for over a decade before going out on his own to do his own thing; illustrating books, working freelance and exhibiting on a regular basis.

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Laurel Sparks Paintings Are Wonderfully Theatrical

moray mair | Art and design | December 31, 2012

Laurel Sparks abstract paintings come out of her love of theatricality, her canvases a cast of characters that shimmer and dance in a multitude of colour, texture and symbolism.

Her work is, oddly enough, based on photographs which she takes herself or collects and archives. When starting a new work Sparks draws from the photo until she’s broken down the image into abstract organic shapes in a sketchbook. These shapes are then applied to the canvas with a variety of materials including acrylic, pigment markers, gouache, silver and gold enamel in bright pop and psychedelic colours.

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Eleanor Crow Illustrations Of East End Cafes Are Wonderful

moray mair | Art and design | December 29, 2012

Eleanor Crow‘s illustrations of cafes and snack bars from the East End of London are a wonderful riposte to the drawings and paintings we too often see of the cafes of continental Europe. Her beautiful watercolours are a tribute to those establishments that hold onto a particular culture that has yet to be dismantled by globalisation and the onward march of Starbucks monster inc.

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Alex Ziv’s Paintings Are Pop Surrealist Compositions That Mash Up Biker Culture Andf Pop Art Iconography

moray mair | Art and design | December 29, 2012

Alex Ziv is young pop surrealist painter who marries his love of hot rod and biker culture with pop art iconography. This mash up of bikes and pop materialism has led to strange compositions that refer back to the pop art of the 60′s while appropriating biker culture to talk about wider cultural issues. It’s refreshing to see an artist painting about a sub culture he feels passionate about and better still to see that culture represented in such a way in a fine art gallery. He’s definitely one to keep an eye out for in the future.

Here’s what he has to say about his work:

My recent work has been the truest visual testament to a cultural phenomenon I have adored since a child. My visual rhetoric streamlined to manifest personified images composed of the dated yet relevant icons of hot rod and motorcycle cultures. The abnormal devotion seen within those who devote their lives to their mechanical crafts manipulated and extended through my choice method of mark making, pointillism. Brightly coloured planes of paper purely embodies the exuberant character gradually taking over my life more and more as I delve further into making about what is important to me, motorcycles, old cars, the politics surrounding itʼs culture and the dream of one day having many of my own.

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Amanda Stone Talley Paintings Are Decorative And Translate The Energy Of The Outside World Into Paint

moray mair | Art and design | December 28, 2012

Amanda Stone Talley‘s paintings are decorative and pleasing to the eye. They don’t scream and shout, make a point, are not political or cultural statements. Rather they are exactly what they look like. Beautifully patterned compositions. And why not.

Talley is interested in the energy about her, the life of the everyday and through her paintings is able to give that onto others. How I would love to be able to do that. To bring joy, peace of mind, a little bit of sunshine into someone’s life. These days she’s broadening out her work and transferring her paintings onto fabric. A good fit don’t you think?

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Brendan Kingsley’s Invisible Landscape Photo Series Is A Philosophical Look At Mankind

moray mair | Photography | December 28, 2012

Brendan Kingsley’s ‘Invisible Landscape’ photo series is a philosophical look at the universality of mankind. By stripping away place, individuality and colour Kinsley has created a series of images that ask questions about our collectivity, our relationship to the universe and each other. They are also beautiful pictures and give us, the viewer, the opportunity to wander through our mind, our own thoughts, our life in a world that is interconnected. Something we very rarely do in our busy individualistic lives.

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William Edmonds Illustrations And Drawings Bring The Weird And Wonderful Together

moray mair | Art and design | December 28, 2012

William Edmonds is much more than an illustrator, yes his work is a weird amalgam of simply designed folksy drawings but he also makes zines, paints, collages, sculptures, prints, writes music and ceramics. Everything though comes from one place, drawing, and it’s in his drawing that we really see his unique perspective on things.

He’s also part of a really interesting arts collective called Nous Vous who see themselves as image makers who work in a wide variety of mediums and on various self – initiated arts projects and exhibitions. There is something innately positive about Edmonds work. Something that makes me smile and breathe well, think better of life in general, makes me realise that art is the only fire worth stoking. And for that I thank him.

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Casey Pierce’s Paintings Give Voice To Memory

moray mair | Art and design | December 28, 2012

Casey Pierce‘s paintings have a strong narrative, a moral story told in pop culture motifs such as TV, cowboys, credit cards and evangelists. His compositions are a materialistic recreation of something fleeting, an attempt to capture thoughts and experiences, to mine memory and dreams in a cogent way. Like all artists Casey works with images he knows; places, scenes and characters, all the while plugging the gaps that memory leaves behind in the fog of time. For Casey this is the point. Painting is a record of moments and Casey gives voice to those gaps. As Orwell once said “he who controls the past, controls the future.”

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Jim Kazanjian’s Composite Photographs Are Gothic And Fantastical

moray mair | Photography | December 27, 2012

Jim Kazanjian‘s composite photographs are the perfect example of how one can manipulate the honesty of a photographic image to create fantastical gothic pictures that defy the imagination. Having been in the CGI industry for over 18 years Kazanjian creates his pictures using up to 50 different archive photos to create his final image drawing on inspiration from writers such as H.P Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood.

Kazanjian has a gothic imagination, his buildings are decaying, ruined, absent of humanity. They remind me of stills from Christoper Nolan’s ‘Inception’. A surreal dark trip through a dreamscape.

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Drew Tyndall’s Cabin Series Is Playful Craft Art

moray mair | Art and design | December 27, 2012

Drew Tyndall‘s ‘Cabin Series’ is proof that following in your fathers footsteps can be a good thing. Something I wouldn’t know much about. As I didn’t. See Tyndall’s father is an architect and these playful, cardboard thin wooden models could be seen as an inspiration, a product of growing up under your fathers feet and learning how to build structures, being around blueprints, materials and so on. Definitely something I know nothing about.

Each piece looks like a series of wooden blocks taken from a puzzle, tetris perhaps, a sort of lego for people who are into a natural aesthetic.

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Flyn Vibert’s Photography Makes Fashion Apocalyptic

moray mair | Photography | December 27, 2012

I don’t usually post up fashion photography. I have no particular interest. But in Flyn Vibert we have a different animal altogether. This is a photographer who, from what I can gather, believes in the beauty and quality of imperfection while chasing the idea of perfection. As all artists do. And he’s doing it his way. He calls it ‘poorer’ photography, a technique that eschews photoshop, re-touching and darkroom manipulation. As for shop bought filters? No. Not for him. Instead this artist makes his own filters; using disparate materials such as coffee, milk and sugar and then re-lights and re-shoots for the final effect.

Vibert is interested in blurring the line between reality and fantasy, between the ancient and the magical. His is a apocalyptic take on fashion photography. A truly unique vision.

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Mia Christopher’s Paintings Are Minimal, Simple And Full Of Joy

moray mair | Art and design | December 27, 2012

Mia Christopher‘s illustrative paintings are simplicity itself. Nothing is excessive. Only the strictest forms and colours survive. The result of this minimal approach are delightful compositions that play in the light with humour and unadulterated joy.

Mainly using ink and coloured pencil on paper she forgoes backgrounds preferring to play with different papers and materials such as nail polish. glitter, latex, acrylic, oil, gouache and watercolour paint. This joy, that’s inherent in her work, is a delight to see and even better is the fact that you can see into her process by going to her site and checking out her sketchbooks.

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Jason Lazarus Photographs Personal Histories

moray mair | Photography | December 26, 2012

Jason Lazarus‘s photographs, whether they be pictures of himself sliding naked into a pool, doing projects with the occupy movement or talking photos of pictures are all linked through personal history, a quest to record contemporary culture and what it means to live in the world today.

His work is so wide ranging that it’s impossible to pin him down from installation work to performances to personal narratives about falling in love with Nirvana when he was 14. He is an artist, an archivist, a recorder, a dissenter. And while you may think such actions, conceptual processes are rather po-faced you’d be very much mistaken. There is humour in Lazarus’ work, so much to admire in his compositions, particularly his ability to frame and illuminate everyday situations.

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