Brooks Salswedel

Brooks Salswedel at George Billis Gallery:

Through an extremely toxic, resin layering process Brooks Salzwedel creates multi-faceted pieces that seek to shine light towards the also toxic affect society is having on nature. Salzwedel's spectral, foggy dreamscapes often include massive man made contraptions looming desperately in the midst of their destructive paths, hints of nature's prior existence dotting the scene and we the viewers - thanks to Salzwedel's entrancing artistic process - gaze on these monsters from the safety and comfort of the as of yet undisturbed thicket. The irony being that our safety is simply a gag designed by Salzwedel's pencil which creates the illusion of a natural window, a window not to the future but to remind us of our past. Brooks has a show of brand new work opening on March 31st at George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles. - Zach Tutor

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Jennifer Maravillas

Surrealist Cartography by Jennifer Maravillas:


Artist Jennifer Maravillas was inspired by her many travels to US metropolitan areas, creating artistic cartography that feels more like abstract artwork than layers of urban space.









You can purchase prints in her online shop.

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Ana Soler

Ana Soler: Red Way:



Installation by Ana Soler titled Red Way. Red string on a teak pathway in Alishan Park, Taiwan

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Inna Babaeva

Inna Babaeva:


Sculptures by Inna Babaeva.

Reed Danziger

Reed Danziger:


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Ana Soler

Ana Soler: Causa-Efecto:

Spanish artist Ana Soler has a knack for taking the everyday object and creating spectacular installations. Her most recent, Causa-Efecto (Cause and Effect) involved 2000 tennis balls giving the illusion of bouncing all over the various rooms and levels of the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante this past fall. The multiple trajectories that these balls take have you looking in all directions. A bit like a three-dimensional airline route map.
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Seamus Conley

Seamus Conley:


Paintings by Seamus Conley.
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Erwan Frotin

Photographer Erwan Frontin‘s wildflowers, all of which he discovered while traveling throughout southern France.

These are beautiful.

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Dominic Cox

Moments in Time: Tiny Figures Balanced on Watch Hands: [ By Steph in Architecture & Design & Gadgets & Geek Art. ]



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.

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