Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
3.15.2011
2.10.2011
Your Mum wont get mad..
Found these leather gloves by Chicago Artist Ellen Greene randomly cruising the internet. They're pretty cool although personally, I wouldn't spend a penny on them. One woman's junk is another woman's treasure. Good idea though, I wonder if Michael Jackson would've wanted a pair?
Photographs courtesy of:www.inkbutter.com
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Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea
The collection entitled 'Mars:Adrift on the Hourglass Sea' is a creation by Richard Salesnick & Nicholas Khan, two English artists living in America 'obsessed' by creating photo epics. This particular story is based around two fictional women stranded on the planet Mars. There's something quite old school sci-fi book cover about these...which is why I like them. Lots of empty spaces and crazy 60's/70's inspired geometry and costumes of the era's depiction of the future.
Photographs courtesy of: Yansee Richardson Gallery
The collection entitled 'Mars:Adrift on the Hourglass Sea' is a creation by Richard Salesnick & Nicholas Khan, two English artists living in America 'obsessed' by creating photo epics. This particular story is based around two fictional women stranded on the planet Mars. There's something quite old school sci-fi book cover about these...which is why I like them. Lots of empty spaces and crazy 60's/70's inspired geometry and costumes of the era's depiction of the future.
Photographs courtesy of: Yansee Richardson Gallery
Yumiko Utsu
Utsu combines food photography with the anthropomorphic aspects of anime culture. She shares her affinity for kitsch with British photographer Martin Parr. But instead of an exclusively documentary style approach to the Japanese relation to food, she uses fruit, vegetables and sea creatures to construct surreal fantasies. The world is inhabited by kraken-eyed kittens, octopus an old master and phallic carrots.
Contemporary artists such as Takashi Murakami utilise the animated figures of anime culture to overturn Japanese culture. Utsu manages to do the same, by contrasting the decaying products of nature with the antiseptic moral framework of modern society. Her work discusses our complex relationship to nature and our own physicality.
The Japanese artist is inspired by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer and his surreal short film Food (1992). She too offers unsettling scenes when she transforms the head of a piece of broccoli into an Alpine landscape. “The title means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork”.
Yumiko Utsu was born in 1978, Tokyo. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions in Hungary and Japan and Charles Saatchi has also been known to admire her work.
Words and photographs courtesy of: www.michealhoplingallery.com
Utsu combines food photography with the anthropomorphic aspects of anime culture. She shares her affinity for kitsch with British photographer Martin Parr. But instead of an exclusively documentary style approach to the Japanese relation to food, she uses fruit, vegetables and sea creatures to construct surreal fantasies. The world is inhabited by kraken-eyed kittens, octopus an old master and phallic carrots.
Contemporary artists such as Takashi Murakami utilise the animated figures of anime culture to overturn Japanese culture. Utsu manages to do the same, by contrasting the decaying products of nature with the antiseptic moral framework of modern society. Her work discusses our complex relationship to nature and our own physicality.
The Japanese artist is inspired by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer and his surreal short film Food (1992). She too offers unsettling scenes when she transforms the head of a piece of broccoli into an Alpine landscape. “The title means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork”.
Yumiko Utsu was born in 1978, Tokyo. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions in Hungary and Japan and Charles Saatchi has also been known to admire her work.
Words and photographs courtesy of: www.michealhoplingallery.com
1.14.2011
1.08.2011
Sketches by Kimberly Gordon of Wildfox California
Pen and Watercolour by Kimberly Gordon of Wildfox Couture
I wish I had just a fleck of Kimberly Gordon's artistic skills, and her job- take a look at the extract below (cheekily and lazily copied and pasted from their website). For British shoppers you can find a selection of the collection at Miss Selfridges. ALSO have a look at my previous post on the new Wildfox S/S11 White Label collection. Dribble dribble...
About Wildfox:
Childhood friends Emily Faulstich and Kimberley Gordon are the creative force behind Wildfox. Inspired by sleepovers, beautiful books, fairies, dreams, vintage t-shirts and their friendship, the young designers gave birth to a brand based on love and having fun! Things had gotten too serious in the world of fashion, and it was time for a change. They created their t-shirts for every person, soft, baggy, bright and fun.Together with musician Jimmy Sommers as CEO and President of Wildfox the brand was officially established in Los Angeles in 2007. Today, the girls spend their time visiting vintage shops and working out of their Silverlake-area design studio - where they ew their hearts on their sleeves and spread peace and love through design.
Photographs courtesy of www.ilovewildfox.com
Words from www.wildfoxcouture.com
1.05.2011
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