Matthew Cerletty produces strange and wonderful paintings, some look near enough real, other don’t.
It’s this weird range and variety that attracts me to his work. He was born in 1980, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, but now lives and works in New York.
Cerletty is foremost a portrait painter, with his canvases running from medium size to large size. His subjects are usually …
A real talent, Daniel Everett, his works are interesting, creative and distinctively stylish. He combines all sorts of different medias, exploring the possibilities and limits of personal meaning in public spaces.
Most of his work focuses specifically on aesthetics and implications of the outdated and now-obsolete technology of his youth: videogames, computers, and the early Internet. He uses their functions and …
Some cool works by American artist Justin Kemp. My favourite has to be the top two images titled ‘Surfing with the sand between my toes’, which is also one of his most recent projects.
His website contains all sorts of other video and photo works, accumulated since 2007 and it’s definitely worth a visit. Kemp’s work ironically plays with contemporary …
These images below and above are featured in an exhibition at the Metro Gallery titled This May Hurt by Michael Peck.
Michael creates through his paintings the sensation of disorientation and dislocation that is often felt within the post modern world. His work particularly focuses on the effects within minority groups and individuals existing on the fringe who are challenged …
This is quite an old piece of work from Leandro Erlich, the artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In one the Museum’s courtyards in Japan, the pool appears to be filled deep with water, however, a layer of water only some 10 centimetres deep is suspended over transparent glass. Thus creating the effect of a full swimming pool, throwing off the …
Keven Van Aelst lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, a photographer and artist who was born in New York. Apart from teaching photography at varies Universities, photos of his can be seen weekly illustrating “The Medium” in the New York Times Magazine.
This series i picked out focuses on a fingerprint concept, in which he tries to recreate a …
Laurie Kang has been in my eyesight for a little while now, based out of Toronto, she creates photographic work that explores the construction and staging of environments, a manipulation of the ordinary. Her images are imaginative and surreal, usually very open ended or having several possible meanings or interpretations.
This series shown here is titled ‘My Father and I’, which …
Christopher Nielsen uses vintage design as his inspiration, creating scratchy retro images that have been used by wineries, zoo’s, radio stations and fish mongers from around the globe.
He has a wide range of illustrations in his portfolio, you could spend hours looking through the character sets and weird scenarios depicted.
His client list includes the LA Times, ABC Radio and TIME …
Alastair Mackie, who lives and works in London, usually creates sculptural forms out of unusual materials, highlighting the tensions between natural and constructed structures.
Science, religion and tradition are just some of the themes Mackie tries to address in his work, sometimes even humouring the absurdity of everyday life.
From a distance his works appear to be beautiful objects, the result …
I just came across this great sculptor called Jared Pankin, whose work shown here was exhibited at the Carl Berg Gallery.
The basis of his work involves tiny chipped pieces of wood, in which he creates and builds fantasies from. These then come to life by mixing in worldly objects, seen here is mainly taxidermy ie. fox, goat etc.
“He …
