A slushy mix of art and non-art that I use as references for my own art.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Deep Sea Jellyfish


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Proving once and for all that even the artificiality of neon lights can have it's natural roots somewhere.

Nina Katchadourian

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Quote from her website:
"There is a type of lichen which is very common in the Finnish archipelago and my family's summer house sits on a large granite hill covered with it. I have always seen certain shapes as islands or continents, and decided to affix rub-on letters directly to the lichens to identify them as the places I recognized. When I had finished, the whole hill had become a kind of scrambled atlas. The Moss Maps series consists of about 20 photographs like those shown here."

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Alicja Kwade

Alicja Kwade

555 kg of grinded champange bottles

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Seth Fluker

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Most of his work is not of an abstract nature, but I could'nt help but post the following image for obvious reasons...

Seth Fluker

Website here. A pretty good interview is here also.

Kelly Kleinschrodt

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Mabye I'm just into peanut butter lately or something, I don't know. This is just kind of funny. Oppenheimer's version is way more seductive. Her website.

I also sort of like this photo of hers:

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For some inexplicable reason. It makes me a little nostalgic I guess, I used to collect those crystals. Her work is so random and patchy. I feel like that's becoming the trend as of late. Just look at how iheartphotograph blogs. It's a wonderful resource as I learn about so many artists very quickly but it is a little annoying as I rarely get a sense of whom the artist is that she is blogging about unless I go to their website. It's a good incentive to do more research, but if you're being lazy you're just going to stare at lots of random pictures, fffound style.

Abstract art at the white house?

Sweet.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Lee Miller

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Lee Miller

Man Ray's muse and assistant was a talented photographer and businesswoman in her own right. I found this book in the Enoch Pratt Library a while ago and it only reconfirmed these suspicions.

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