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In response to the Japanese disaster on the 11th March our friend Daniel Freytag at Editions of 100 has designed and printed a special limited edition print simply entitled ‘Japan’.
He is donating 100% of all of the proceeds to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal, perfect if your looking for a lovely new print for your wall and want to help out with an extremely good cause.
Nice piece on Jetset Graffiti detailing images of the latest piece from French artist JR and his ‘Wrinkles in the City’ series, which you can see throughout L.A (FYI, JR won the coveted TED prize for 2011).
Beautiful artworks from Daniel Arsham, across any media (and dimension) he see’s fit.
Impressive layered landscape art by Japanese artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi.
Incredible colour installations from Mexican born Gabriel Dawe. Looks like a fantastic multi-coloured rainbow shower with the use of textiles and embroidery. Some beautifully vibrant work for this cold, white November day.
Love this piece of work by artist Sophie Whettnall, Endless Landscape. White pencil on 12 metres of black painted wall. Stunning
Great series by Croatian artist Igor Eskinja who works directly onto gallery surfaces with largely basic materials. Be sure to check his Flick’r photostream for some of his other works.
Axolotl Gallery (Venue 209) is soon to present its debut Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, ‘Young Northern British Artists’.
The event is sure to be a vibrant exhibition of figurative and narrative art from emerging graduates from the four Scottish Art Schools and featuring new work by international artists and jewellers.
The gallery is bringing together the very best of the 2010 Graduate Degree Shows emerging from the four major Scottish Art Schools; Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grays School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone. Many of the artists are as yet unknown but have already been chosen for the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries Scotland Exhibition in Spring 2011.
Also featured is a collection of unique jewellery by Jared Sanders exploring themes of love, loss and memory. Taking inspiration from traditional talismanic imagery using eclectic symbolism to illustrate the duality of love.
The exhibition runs 6 – 30 August daily 10-6pm Sunday 12-5pm / Free (non ticketed).
To coincide with this week’s documentary release ‘The Doors’, Idea Generation’s dramatic photographic exhibition follows the equally dramatic life of this revolutionary and controversial band, through the lenses of four photographers: Henry Diltz, Joel Brodsky, Bobby Klein and Ken Regan.
The Doors were created in 1965 by lead singer Jim Morrison and fellow band member Ray Manzerak. Their first LP ‘The Doors’ shot to the top of the charts, yet concern over their ‘corruption of youth’ made promoters nervous and soon their reputation as bad boys overshadowed their chart success. In fact the Los Angeles quartet continued to relentlessly challenge, confront yet inspire their fans, leaping headfirst into the heart of darkness as opposed to what were the more current popular topics of peace and love.
James Short a.k.a. Argyle Plaids is an artist/designer from Seattle who has spent the last decade developing a method of presenting Photoshop-based artwork in the form of tangible, mixed media art pieces that have the organic look and feel of more traditionally created work.
Derived from his photography, paintings and encaustic work. Finished pieces are constructed from acid-free watercolor paper, archival varnish, lacquer and acrylic on hand-built, finished wood box frames, lifting them out of their humble, pixel-based origins. All images are set as limited editions, yet all retain one-of-a-kind characteristics as they are custom made individually in varying sizes and dimensions.
His work found it’s way to us via our ever growing and popular pool of images found on Flickr.
David Jon Kassan’s paintings flicker in a liminal space between the real and the hyper real, narration and transformation. He also just crafted this unbelievable portrait by utilising an iPad.
