Posts Tagged ‘ art ’

Shaping Nature

The Land Art of Sylvain Meyer Some nice”land art” by Sylvain Meyer, similar in nature (ha!) to Andy Goldsworthy’s work. More on Goldsworthy, the grandfather of land art, soon. Via Colossal: Wonderful land art installations by French artist Sylvain Meyer who modifies wooded areas and landscapes to create various impermanent patterns, sculptures, and textures. Everything [ READ MORE ]

Pegboard Pointillism

Via The Cool Hunter, a selection of fantastic pointillism pieces by artist/photographer Philip Karlberg. Can you make out all of the following? Jackie O – Karl Lagerfeld  – Lady Gaga  – John Belushi – Johnny Depp[ READ MORE ]

Fleeting Light Sculpture

Some really nice examples of light installation art. Via Colossal: Landscape Light Sculptures Artist Barry Underwood photographs wonderfully mysterious light installations that he installs on-site in forests, mountainsides, or near lakes and rivers. Via his artist statement: By reading the landscape and altering the vista through lights and photographic effects, I transform everyday scenes into [ READ MORE ]

Drawn Today, Gone Tomorrow

Impermanent Sand Paintings by Andres Amador Via Colossal: San Francisco-area landscape artist Andreas Amador etches massive sand drawings onto beaches during full moons when his canvas reaches its largest potential. Using only a rake and often several helpers the geometric and organic shapes are slowly carved into the sand, often interacting with the physical topography [ READ MORE ]

Carl Jara’s Impressive Sand Sculptures

I spent the New Year’s weekend on the Oregon coast with friends, and one of my favorite memories of the weekend was a speed sand castle building competition. We had four minutes apiece, and they were glorious. But not quite like this. Colossal has a write up of serious artist Carl Jara and his jaw-dropping [ READ MORE ]

Bubble Photography

Colossal is a fantastic Art/Design blog that I’m a big fan of. One of their most popular posts from 2011 was of high-speed liquid photography by Heinz Maier. Via Colossal: It never ceases to amaze me: just when I think I’ve seen every possible permutation of an artform or technique—be it figurative sculpture, stop motion [ READ MORE ]

Anish Kapoor

I am only recently aware of Anish Kapoor’s work, although he’s been producing stunning minimalist sculpture/art for years. This small collection shows some of his use of pure color and form, and the three-dimensionality is really intriguing, and inspiring. So well known in his native Britain to be commissioned a huge 2012 Olympic sculpture, Kapoor [ READ MORE ]

Wire Sculptures by Gavin Worth

Via Colossal Artist Gavin Worth has followed a road less traveled (or perhaps, more traveled). He was born in Zimbabwe in 1981, grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico and then lived for nearly a decade in San Francisco where he found work as an actor and musician before leaving for Cairo, Egypt to teach [ READ MORE ]

Thinking Small, Dramatically

I explore the excellent and detailed work of Lori Nix, who hand makes scenes of decay, death, but also nature and the forces of time. [ READ MORE ]

Cereal Box Art: Hipster Vintage

If I know anything about hipsters, it’s that they love vintage triangles.  Say what? I happen to know a lot of hip, young, design-y types, and the work I see coming from them is geometric, pattern-based, and desaturated, usually with a lot of scenic outdoor photography.   There is a lot of cool looking stuff, don’t [ READ MORE ]

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