The Installation and Painting Art Portfolio of Heimo Zobernig
Here and Now, (Installation view at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany) (Photograph by Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln / Marion Mennicken)Heimo Zobernig is an Austrian installation artist whose works use a variety of materials and sculptural forms to address self-referential modernist themes in carefully composed and curated spaces. The artist’s full-room installations are packed with detail and yet seem planned and positioned to a minute…
New Relevance: Art by Julie Cockburn
The Conundrum, hand embroidery on found photograph
Julie Cockburn is a London-based artist whose current body of work explores antique photographs and abstract interventions. The artist often layers colourful geometric compositions over black and white portraits and other found art pieces to bring new relevance to obsolete artefacts.
Honeymoon Period 7, hand embroidery on found photograph
The aesthetics of Cockburn’s recent works…
The Art of Graphic Designer and Sculptor Nancy Fouts
Bird on record player, taxidermy kingfisher, record player, vinyl record
Nancy Fouts was a graphic designer and sculptor known for her surreal and subversive images and sculptures. Based in London for the majority of her career, Fouts was a key figure in the London art scene as co-founder of Fouts and Fowler gallery.
Tarred Baby, resin-dipped fabric baby doll, black acrylic paint
The artist’s works draw on Fouts' background as a…
A Portfolio of Deep Blue-Hued Images by Casey Roberts
large bush, cyanotype on paper
Casey Roberts is an artist and printmaker currently based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The artist uses a combination of cyanotype printing and gouache to build deep blue-hued images that rely on sharp, simplified forms in stark compositions to build up a sense of narrative intrigue.
drawing birds at breakfast (dining room table), cyanotype on paper with gouache
I really love the consistency of the cyan…
Matchstick Men: The Art of Wolfgang Stiller
Matchstickmen, wood, rigid foam, acrylic paint
Wolfgang Stiller is a German sculptor who creates artworks that combine human figures with natural and man-made materials. The artist is known for his matchstick men -- larger-than-life sculptures of burnt out matches with realistic human faces.
Deceive, plastic shrimp traps, lights
Stiller’s sculptural process incorporates found materials -- the artist began creating his matchstick…
Folding Forms: The Ceramic Art of Tomomi Tanaka
UntitledTomomi Tanaka is a Japanes ceramic artist who uses papery, folding forms to express undulating movement. The artist’s pieces are a beautiful blend of quiet, subtle aesthetics and swift, complicated movements.
漲るIt’s fascinating to look at Tomomi’s ceramic pieces -- in many cases, it’s surprising to discover that the work is in fact ceramic. These look like they could be paper, or perhaps pieces of fabric, bundled…
Tension and Symbiosis: Art by Stephanie Kilgast
Coral Royal, mixed media sculpture on drinking can
Stephanie Kilgast is a French artist, originally from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and now based in Vannes, France. The artist’s current body of work centres on sculptures that combine organic forms with discarded man-made materials and detritus, expressing the tension and symbiosis between the natural world and human production.
Last Glow, mixed media sculpture on tin can
Despite the…
Techniques from Science and Medicine: Art by Angela Palmer
Susie Wolff: Portrait of a Racing Driver, crystal glass
Palmer is an English artist who produces sculptural and installation artworks in glass and other materials. In recent works, the artist has utilized techniques from science and medicine, such as MRI scans to build a layered self portrait.
Heart of Glass
I like the aesthetic that Palmer’s recent glass works take on -- these pieces seem to combine aesthetics from fine glass…
The Baroque and Romantic Painting of Roberto Ferri
CUPO FUOCO II, oil on canvasRoberto Ferri is an Italian painter whose work is heavily inspired by Baroque and romantic painting styles. The artist renders realistic human figures in dramatic postures and lush, symbolic scenes and settings.
ANGELO CADUTO, oil on canvas
I really appreciate the dramatic lighting, that Ferri uses in his paintings -- deep, almost black backgrounds and warm skin tones and highlights suggest the irregular…
Colour and Contrast: The Art of Pieter Vermeersch
Untitled, oil paint on wall and marble (Exhibition view at Artissima 2017, represented by Galerie Greta Meert, Turin, Italy)Pieter Vermeersch is an artist currently based in Brussels, Belgium. In his practice, Vermeersch capitalizes on colour and contrast, juxtaposing smooth gradients with more organic or geological textures and hues.
Untitled, acrylic paint on wall, bricks (exhibition view at Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain)…Cartoonish Exuberance: The Art of Shaun Keenan
Shaun Keenan is an illustrator and concept artist from the United States. In his portfolio of work, Keenan shows off his talent for taking realistic features and figures, and using exaggerated poses and viewpoints to lend them a sense of cartoonish exuberance.
Many of the artist’s works feature dinosaurs or other prehistoric animals in some manner. In fact, Keenan is perhaps best known for his viral book Dinosaurs of the Wild…
Virtual Visual Languages: Art by Jennifer Mehigan
Jennifer Mehigan is a mixed media artist based in Belfast, Ireland. In her current practice, Mehigan draws on digital rendering and imaging techniques to create complex, layered artworks that draw on aesthetics from mainstream advertising and social media, as well as more avant-garde virtual visual languages.
The smooth, obviously digital forms that populate many of Mehigan’s works are interesting in the way that they seem balanced…
Acceptance of the Inevitable: Art by Nicola Samorì
Interno assoluto, oil and sulphur on copper (photo by Rolando Paolo Guerzoni)
Italian artist Nicola Samorì creates rich mixed media artworks that deal with themes of death, decay, and loss. Though macabre in appearance, Samorì’s works take an attitude of fascination and exploration, eschewing depression in favour of a meditative acceptance of the inevitable.
Babette, fresco
I like the way that Samorì combines classical aesthetics…
A Portfolio of Painting by Howard Fonda
Untitled, acrylic and coloured pencil on raw canvas
Howard Fonda is a painter who works in a wide colour palette, building canvases that often seem more like drawings in the way that the pigment is applied and the way negative space is emphasized. The artist’s style is sketched and almost childlike in places, but Fonda’s expert eye for balanced composition lends the works an undeniable sense of intention.
Untitled, acrylic and…Installation Artworks by Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Surreptitious Plotting, concrete resin, copper, electrical cord, water pump
Koenraad Dedobbeleer is an artist who currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. In his practice, Dedobbeleer produces installation artworks and sculptures using a wide range of media and materials.
Those Unabused by an Awareness, spray painted wood, spray painted metal, wood, concrete, candies, textile
I really enjoy the way Dedobbeleer titles his…