Where one might only see ugly potholes and cracks Juliana Santacruz Herrera uses the grey asphalt as her canvas to create wonderful street art. By using bright yarns and fabrics, she braids and weaves site-specific pieces, injecting some colour into the urban landscape of Paris where she lives. Mon Dieu!
Installations, photography, video, music, performance, painting, drawing, texts… There doesn’t seem to be a single medium that German artist Theo Altenberg isn’t familiar with, but what we like the most are his candylicious oil on cardboard paintings.
On models, on old paintings, on Marilyn Monroe, if there is skin showing, Belgian artist Jean-Luc Moerman will make sure to cover it up with his black marker pens. As an artist Moerman prides himself in his ability to use unusual and eclectic objects as his canvases and has been compelled over the past 35 years by the infinite possibilities of the line. Past work has included creations on tables, walls, cars, stickers, robots as well as contemporary images of international supermodels and sports stars as well as reproductions of classical masterpieces. Basically anything you can cover in black tribal tattoos!
Conor Harrington is an Irish artist whose work could be described as an incredibly successful collusion between fine art and street techniques. According to Conor himself, central to his oil canvasses is “the male figure, referring to the masculinity of urban culture”. The images you see up here are from ‘Dead Meat’, his most recent show which opened the other week at Lazarides Gallery in London and runs through April 12, 2012. Stop by if you’re around!
Amy Stein is a photographer who was raised in Washington, DC, and Karachi, Pakistan. Nowadays she is based in New York City where she works as a photographer as well as a teacher in photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment and she has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Furthermore, her stunning work also forms part in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the George Eastman House Photography Collection.
Pat Perry is an artist and illustrator who calls Grand Rapids, Michigan home. The lands of the north, colorful people, music, and the ordinary streets of the Midwest have always moved him. In between showing his art from coast to coast or working with an assortment of clients, Pat travels as much as possible. Although he is happy to be able to speak and have an audience through his artwork, he does his best everyday to listen and learn from the world he lives in.
Jen Stark (born 1983 in Miami, Florida) is a contemporary artist who both draws and animates, but what really makes her stand out are her intriguing paper sculptures inspired by wormholes, microscopic patterns and sliced anatomy.
Through her mandala-like art she raises questions about spirituality, replication and infinity, echoing patterns and intelligent designs found in nature. She has exhibited her works in various galleries around the U.S. like the Girls’ Club Collection, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami. She was also the proud recipient of the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium’s Visual and Media Artists Fellowship in 2008.
Artistic statement:
The saying goes that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. It occurs in places you least expect. Revealing its art in the human body, but also cruelly absent in the presence of deformations and scars. Ashkan Honarvar (1980) depicts an undeniable, unavoidable beauty by accepting the darker sides of human ‘nature’. The body, torn by acts of war, exploited by the sex industry or used as a tool for seeking identity, is the focal point of his work.This constitutes a search for a universal representation of the evil latent in every human, providing an opportunity for reflection. His aesthetic dissection has an intriguing macabre nature, which opens the images to interpretation. Honarvar’s almost empiric exploration of the human condition knows no bounds. Its goal; the indefinable core.
Iranian artist Ashkan Honarvar currently lives and works in The Netherlands
Tri Nouio is an upcoming fashion designer based in Taipei, Taiwan. He studied at the Shih Chien University and graduated only last year but has already launched his own collection called ‘Noumenon’ where he combines art, technology and 3D imagery into dazzling garments. If you ask Nouio himself he believes that an image is easier to convey than a message and therefore uses 3D technology to develop motifs influenced by nature. By combining the familiarity of nature with new technology he wants to convey an ironic statement that modern technology cannot protect nature. Worn with 3D glasses, it is intended to be a distraction from the human form. Yummy!
Lola Dupré is a artist and illustrator currently working near Avignon in the south of France. Using paper, scissors and glue she disassembles and assembles photographs into meticulously, contoured mosaic-like collages. Wow wow wow!
Javier Piñon was born in Miami but grew up in sunny Texas. Nowadays he lives and works in Brooklyn,New York where he has made himself a name on the art scene with his amazing seamless collages filled with classical mythology and christian iconography. He is married to New York- based clothes designer Mara Hoffman, and togheter they sure make a booming couple.
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