Dominic Cox

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Tiny colored figures balance delicately on the hands of watches are the latest imaginative creations from surrealist designer Dominic Cox, who is also known for his hooks made of hardened unwashed paintbrushes and a hilarious nose stylus for one-handed smart phone use. Commissioned by Dezeen, the ‘Moments in Time‘ series tackles themes like protest and surveillance.



Painted in shades of red and gray and protected by glass domes, the scenes include recreations of the infamous UC Davis protest in which peaceful students were pepper-sprayed by a bored-looking cop. Says the artist, “I find it disturbing when people in positions of power abuse it and lose any sense of humanity. I was shocked to see the footage of the pepper spraying of people sitting in a peaceful protest at UC Davis. I felt a need to capture this incident in time.”





In another scene, a protester and a police officer embrace in a kiss, and a third features CCTV cameras watching over three oblivious photographers. Seven of Wilcox’s miniature works are currently on display at London’s Phillips de Pury gallery.



See many more of these watch works, as well as a video interview with Dominic Wilcox, at Dezeen.


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Regina Silveira

Disorienting Depth: Amazing Optical Illusions in Art Galleries:



With some simple black markings that mimic the architecture of the gallery walls and windows, artist Regina Silveira makes visitors feel as if they’re walking on air. In an installation called ‘Depth’ at the Atlas Sztuki Gallery in Lodz, Poland, Silveira applied a large-format, digitally generated image to the flat floor surface to make it seem as if the room extended four stories below onlookers’ feet.



Silveira plays with light, shadow and perspective to create the optical illusions that make up the bulk of her oeuvre. Currently showing at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut is an installation called In Absentia, which gives empty pedestals exaggerated shadows that depict art objects that aren’t actually present.

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Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht:


Ori Gersht

Work from Blow Up and Time After Time.

“The large-scale photographs entitled Blow Up depict elaborate floral arrangements, based upon a 19th Century still-life painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, captured in the moment of exploding. Gersht´s compositions are literally frozen in motion, a process dependent on the ability of the advanced technology of photography to freeze-frame action. This visual occurrence, that is too fast for the human eye to process and can only be perceived with the aid of photography, is what Walter Benjamin called the ‘optical unconsciousness’ in his seminal essay ‘A Short History of Photography’.

Flowers, which often symbolise peace, become victims of brutal terror, revealing an uneasy beauty in destruction. This tension that exists between violence and beauty, destruction and creation is enhanced by the fruitful collision of the age-old need to capture “reality” and the potential of photography to question what that actually means. The authority of photography in relation to objective truth has been shattered, but new possibilities to experience reality in a more complex and challenging manner have arisen.

The small scale of the works in the series Time after Time [2007] references a Dutch still life painting tradition in which elaborate flower compositions were painted for domestic settings. These paintings often displayed flowers that bloomed at different times of the year, thus creating distorted images of reality and emphasizing the true purpose of such a painting: to display the wealth of its owners.” – Mummery and Schnelle

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Selena Kimball

Selena Kimball:


A stunning collage made from six months’ worth of front page photographs from the New York Times, by Selena Kimball.

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Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh: Floor plus Cause & Effect:

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Floor, which was recently exhibited at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, consists of almost 2,000 plastic little men pushing up on a walkable glass surface, trying to prevent being crushed. These small figures en-masse deal with individuality and collective force, a running theme in Suh’s work. Similarly, his installation Cause & Effect, a tornado-like structure made up of thousands of piggy-backed figures suggests, once again, that there is strength in numbers.

Cause & Effect is currently on display at Western Washington University.

Photos: Phaidon, Huffington Post, The Stranger, and Korea.net’s flickr

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Carsten Witte

Carsten Witte:

Untitled

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Heather Cleary

Heather Cleary:


Heather Cleary

Work from her oeuvre.

“Reality can be impossible to pin down, and these images intend to further explore this notion. I work at home with domestic objects such as side tables, fruit, magazines and houseplants. By selecting, modifying, segmenting, and/or isolating items from their context, I pull objects from utility into abstraction. I make the mundane questionable, playfully dubious. In this way, these photographs explore the relationship between impartial objects and personal perceptions, focusing on the subtleties that produce multiple layers of experience.

I could exhibit the objects, but I choose to use the photographic form because it evokes doubt. Photographs themselves are suspect, lending to both substantiated evidence, as in crime photos or photo identification, and to perpetuate fantasy, as in advertising or editorial images. One needs to know the purpose of the photograph in a context to trust its veracity. The act of viewing a photograph is now one of discernment. It is the act of establishing a relationship or finding orientation.

For me omitting information is a way to create focus. By choosing subjects that suggest multiple identities, placing originals next to replicas, allowing matter to hover between visible and invisible, by deconstructing objects and displaying them flat, I aim to activate the mind. I intend to splinter implicit assumptions by generating distrust. Pulling back the layers of belief and certainty to reexamine accepted truths is what engages me to make the next picture.” – Heather Cleary

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Seasons

Seasons, painting on glass:








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Andrei Varga

Andrei Varga:


Paintings by Andrei Varga.

Ali Bosworth

Ali Bosworth:


Photos by Ali Bosworth.

Office Supplies Inc.

Office Supplies Inc.:


Collage works by street artist Office Supplies Inc. Vancouver.

Steve Smith

Artwork by Steve:






















Steve Smith: website

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Nathan Ford

Nathan Ford:


Paintings by Nathan Ford.


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Mark Garry

Mark Garry:


“Being here”, by Mark Garry. Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh a few years ago. Thread, pins, beads, and carved basswood.

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Barbara Pichiecchio and Alessio Federico

Fashion, photography by Barbara Pichiecchio and Alessio Federico:








D-image studio, based in Pescara (Italy), came into existence in 2001 as a consequence of the collaboration of two photographers, Alessio Federico and Barbara Pichiecchio.

Barbara Pichiecchio and Alessio Federico: D-image studio


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