The Small Stakes
Love this guy! Jason Munn is a talented Poster Artist from the Bay area. Check out his designs below and then go to his site to view his entire portfolio.
Mary Iverson is Heavenly
Beautiful and mesmerizing, Mary Iverson’s paintings captivate you immediately with floating geometric shapes and perspective lines. As you take her work in visually the depth of her pieces start to seep in. Iverson’s latest series incorporates abstract geo shapes with appropriated art. Shapes, representing shipping containers, and a string of lines overlay the appropriated images showcasing scenes from nature (Think Romantic Landscape Paintings or The Sublime from the 19th c.) In this case, Industrialism and it’s effects on nature are the central themes.
Iverson’s work will be featured in an exhibition entitled ‘Frontier’ at Park Life in San Francisco, January 22nd, twenty ten
Artist: Robin Rhode
Robin Rhode is a multidisciplinary visual artist, utilizing performance, film and drawing to create his art. Rhode is most known for his street performances in which he draws ordinary 2 dimensional objects with chalk or charcoal and interacts with the object. Using public spaces as his backdrop, Rhode explores issues about race, identity, culture and politics. Rhode also has a sense of humor. Check out the slam dunk below.
…and most recently, Pictures Reframed, a collaborative performance between pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and visual artist Robin Rhode. An evocative and mesmerizing performance, creating a union of both music and film that has never been done before.
Solo Exhibition, Catch Air: Robin Rhode
Selected Works at Perry Rubenstein Gallery
Landscapes
Nigel Peake and His Book of Maps
Just received Nigel Peake’s small publication on maps in the mail. What a wonderful end of the year treat. If you are not familiar with Nigel please visit his website to view his portfolio. His drawings are intricate, precise, playful and certainly charming. Also, check out his blog.
Happy New Year!
Vintage Matchbook Covers
Paper Art
Bovey Lee creates intricate paper cut out drawings by hand using only rice paper and an X-Acto blade. Inspired by traditional Chinese paper art, Lee seeks to preserve an art form that is slowly becoming non-existent through the rapid modernization of China. Lee’s images are tiny microcosms morphing to produce a single unit. A thousand voices in unison to create a deafening singular note.
Sipho Mabona has been folding paper since he was a small child. Today, he is an internationally recognized Origami master. In 2008, Mabona was the first-ever foreigner to be invited to the Japan Origami Academic Society Convention. Mabona’s work ranges from incredibly intricate designs to abstract and simple forms. Each creation is folded from a single, square piece of paper and can take up to 20 hours to months to complete depending on the project. Often times Mabona’s work is playful, such as the dung beetle below, and other times his work’s beauty shines in it’s simplicity. The bird below is a perfect example as are the koi fish installation.
Also, check out the Asics corporate movie Mabona made entirely from his origami creations.
Crease pattern for a Trilobite. Go ahead try it, I dare you.
Chris Gilmour’s Recycled Cardboard Sculptures are paper replicas of everyday objects ranging from bicycles, scooters, a wheelchair and even a Fiat 500 engine. Using only cardboard and glue, Gilmour’s creations are often life size and executed with perfect accuracy. Gilmour retrieves the cardboard from wasteful shipping materials to construct his clever designs. The paper objects tempt the viewer to interact with the pieces, to open the car door, start the engine and drive away.
Lost Found Art
Vintage Japanese Fabrics
The vintage Japanese textiles below remind me of the Quilts of Gee’s Bend; recycled threads patched together to create a new and usable piece. Most of the fabrics were used to make futon covers, sake filter bags and throws. In Japan, mended and patched textiles are referred to as ‘Boro’, or rags.
Images courtesy of Sri Threads
1950′s Czech Hunting Map
A lovely little illustrated map found via Rifle who found the post via Hollister Hovey. Follow the breadcrumbs.
