One Shot.
Pittsburgh’s Charles “Teenie” Harris loved taking photographs, and did so with such ease he was given the nickname “One Shot.”
Opening last October, the renowned Carnegie Museum of Art is presenting a groundbreaking retrospective of the hometown artist’s work ” in “Teenie” Harris, Photographer: An American Story. Open through April 7, 2012, the exhibition features 987 of Harris’s most beautiful, appealing, and historically significant images. Beginning this month, a smaller-scale version of the exhibit will go on national tour.
View the amazing collection on the museums’s “Teenie” Harris Exhibition microsite.
Layered Meaning.
Cecil Touchon assembles collages of distressed street posters then “paints a picture” of these papiers collés using painstaking trompe l’oeil techniques. The result is beautiful, rhythmic, type-driven and extremely thorough.
Found Here.
Collector Mark Payne has made his repository of vintage slides–mostly European locations post 1960– available for viewing and download at A Second-Hand Life.
Flowerhead.
Olaf Hajek‘s is one of the world’s most successful illustrators. His colorful work is infused with a folkloric naiveté and freshness and can be seen in works for clients such as Apple, United Airlines, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Nike, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, GQ and Volkswagen.
His current solo exhibition, “Dark Clouds,” is on view through April 11 at Whatftheworld Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. The blog, Freunde von Freunden features an interview and images of apartment/atelier. His debut monograph, Flowerhead, was just released and presents an extensive collection of his commercial work as well as personal art that he created exclusively for the book.
Ink Dropper.
These images by graphic designer and illustrator Alberto Seveso are created by taking high-speed photographs of ink mixing with water. These images are also available for download as desktop wallpapers.
Surreal Estate.
In Filip Dujardin‘s Fictions series, he has taken photographs of nondescript buildings and remixes them using Photoshop to create surrealist structures.
Upon Chance.
I love to work with found imagery and I really like what Sebastiaan Bremer is doing with these found photographs. By drawing and layering things on top of it you get the sense of looking through it. Especially when you look at a picture that has many details.
Vanity of Vanities.
James Hopkins‘ installations series Shelf Life is a set of standard pine bookshelves housing an assortments of everyday objects: Albums, a clock, a guitar, a globe, boxes, stemware, creating modern day vanitas.
Transportal.
Over the weekend I had an opportunity to see industrial designer, Marc Newson‘s inspiring exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery.
Newson approaches design as an experimental exercise in extreme structure and advanced technologies, combined with a highly tactile and exacting exploration of materials, processes, and skills. As an industrial designer, his reach is broad and diverse, from concept jets and cars to watches, footwear, jewelry, restaurants, and aircraft interiors.
Norman Wilfred Lewis.
Carnivale del Sol, 1962 Oil on canvas. 50 x 64 in.
I’ve recently rediscovered the Abstract Expressionist work of the African-American painter Norman W. Lewis. A lifelong resident of Harlem, he was mentored by the sculptor and teacher Augusta Savage, who provided him with open studio space at her Harlem Art Center.
Among his contemporaries was Jackson Pollock with whom he participated in WPA art projects. In 1934, he became a member of the 306 Group, a collective of artists and writers that included Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Ralph Ellison, and Jacob Lawrence. You can find some of his work at the Bill Hodges Gallery and on ArtNet.
Pachyderm.
Picked up Issue #3 of the art and visual magazine, Elephant. My favorite feature of this issue is To Live And Die Trying In LA, by Katya Tylevich which includes interviews and work by: Kozyndan, Ed Fella, Eddo Stern, Michael Worthington, Edgar Arceneaux, Rene Daalder and Folkert Gorter.
Anterior.
Now playing in heavy rotation, clients and friends round out this mix of jazz favorites. Fusing found imagery, typography and vintage family photography, the cover art is from my current exploration of mixed media collage.
Colour of Music.
Photographer GW Benson’s series of photographs exploring and titled the Colour of Music. The series purely looks at the color of the record sleeves grouping music by color alone, creating a rhythm of color, light and shade that resonates with its musical content.
Less and More.
Cool Hunting’s 2 minute video about the Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams exhibit.
Looks Delicious.
We’re fans of del.icio.us and data visualization, so we’re excited about the looks del.icio.us project, Kunal Anand‘s attempt to combine graphics design with programming. The concept is to see how users develop and sustain their tagging methodologies on del.icio.us.
Kees Goudzwaard.
Kees Goudzwaard‘s creates his paintings by transferring paper models, compositions he applies to the canvas using sheets of paper and tape. The process by which Goudzwaard’s work comes into being consists of two parts: he first makes a model which he then translates into paint on canvas.
Each painting is the product of an accumulation of strips of tape and areas of paper. Due to the transparent nature of the materials, there is a new nuance of colour in each overlap. Consequently, the strips of tape or the areas of paper are no longer independent entities. Whenever they coincide with other areas or strips they generate new areas and tones of colour. – Eva Wittocx
Flight of Stairs (2005)
Keith Loutit.
Photographer Keith Loutit creates these amazing time-lapse short films using the process of tilt-shift miniature faking. You can see more of his films on Vimeo.
Albert Neal.
This week, thanks to Facebook, I was able to reconnect with my college friend, photographer Albert Neal. Al’s beautiful black & white photographs can be found in many private, corporate and public collections, such as the Neuberger Museum at Purchase College and The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture.
His Harlem Series and Vernacular Visions are created traditionally, with film negatives printed in a darkroom in limited editions, number and signed.
Christopher Wynter.
Also, during the weekend we got to visit one of our favorite local artists Christopher Wynter. His paintings and sculptures are filled with subtle representational images, ideograms and cultural symbols. He was also commissioned by the MTA to create this mosaic installation found at the 110th Street / Cathedral Parkway Station.
Miranda Maher.
One of the highlights of the Arts Under the Bridge Festival was a visit to Miranda Maher’s studio. Miranda is captivated by birds, which are pervasive in her work. I really enjoyed the smartness of the series called Geometry, where the apparently random flight of birds are paired with mathematical diagrams and her installation Oneiric Oology is at once beautiful, delicate and thought provoking.