Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
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Nick Mann >>> Art Murals Of Illumination
With the stroke of his brush, Nick Mann channels cosmic visions onto bare walls in America’s urban metropolises and native reservations. When he is not looking up at a wall, he is looking down upon paper illuminating its fibres with his paint and can be found on his Flickr:
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Randal Robert >>> Psychedelic Co-Creational Art
Randal Robert believes that when he paints there is a energetic co-creating force painting with him, as such he does not even sign his work. From looking at his psychedelic dreamscapes, I imagine this to be nothing but the truth: “My name’s Randal, and I am an artist.” In 2004, around the time I turned 30, I started introducing myself with that. I’d met and been deeply inspired by the great visionary artist Alex Grey, quit the factory job, and began ...
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Before I Die >>> Community Chalkboard Art Project Where People Can Share What Is Most Important To Them
New Orleans resident and artist Candy Chang did what many people wish to do before they die, to make a positive impact on people’s lives…not to mention leave behind a piece that defined our times like a monument or statue. Her ‘Before I Die’ community chalkboard art project is just that having now spread from it’s origins in New Orleans to cities around the world. On it’s walls are chalk declarations, wishes, and dreams of passersby packed with humility and ...
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Out of Line Theatre’s The Sandwich >>> Neo-psychedelic Theatre Work Inspired by the Discovery of LSD
What’s happening in Winnipeg? First it is listed as one of the up and coming hot beds for art and now a LSD theatre production inspired by Albert Hoffman’s discovery of LSD has popped up there titled The Sandwich: Transforming Consciousness Bite by Bite. Sounds like an influx of psychedelics might be responsible for fuelling the arts in a once unknown Canadian prairie town. Learn more below and check it out from May 9 to 12 at the Out Of Line Theatre if ...
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The Search For The Cremaster Cycle Film
I first encountered The Cremaster Cycle a few years ago in a christmas gift from my sister. We have a pact to not spend money on presents for each other, and so she usually gives me some interesting pages printed from her internet-rabbit-hole discoveries. The images, even printed in black and white, were strikingly beautiful, but hard to figure out. And so I did what many people do in the face of avant-garde anything and ignored them. I had zero ...
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Delving Into The Mystery Of Live Painting >>> Interview with Kris Davidson
Michael Garfield >>> Orginally Published on D|Visible Magazine After my last brief interview with live artist Kris Davidson, he and I decided that we hadn’t drilled quite deep enough into the mystery of what compels us both to paint. So over two weeks, while Kris was on the road in India and I was couch-surfing in Boulder, Colorado, we kept a lively correspondence about symbolism in art, mapping the unconscious, the visionary experience, anarchism, sacred geometry, and more. Here is the transcript of ...
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Stillness In Motion >>> Olga Ziemska’s Willow Branch Sculpture
Olga Ziemska is known for her nature manipulations. Here is her most recent work Stillness In Motion. Her inspiration, creative process, and her statement on life are clear from the words of her artist’s statement that reads like a poem: Art as a tool for understanding life. Helping us to discover how our minds create all these visions of reality. Art allows us to question values, morals, philosophies, religions, science, physics, and our selves. Giving us the tools to help understand and ...
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Life In Death >>> Optical Illusion Skull Paitings by Tom French
A preview of artist Tom French’s latest optical illusion skull paintings for his upcoming exhibition ‘Don’t Look Back’ in London next month at Zero Cool Gallery. These paintings remind me that death awaits us all and how beautiful the cycle of life and death really is and can be:
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Paris’ Museum of Tribal Arts that Pits Voodoo and Shamanic Artefacts Alongside Contemporary Artwork
Until July 29, 300 voodoo and shamanic ethnological objects alongside two dozen contemporary artists will be displayed at Paris’ Quai Branly museum. Its title, “Les Maitres du Desordre” (Masters of Chaos), is borrowed from a 1999 book on shamanism by French ethnologist Bertrand Hell. I wish I could get some photos of some pieces in the exhibit, but none have been made available. I guess you will just have to read about it or if you are making a visit to Paris, ...
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Psychedelic Surrealist Visions From the Inner Mind Of Naoto Hattori
Painterly visions from the mind of Naoto Hattori are organic and earthly yet totally from another world. Here is what Hattori says about his paintings: “I try to express something from my inner mind. I like to see what’s really going on in my head, and then find something from the stream of consciousness and paint it. Sometimes it comes out very weird and twisted, but I like to paint exactly what I see with no compromises. That way I can ...
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Michael Page’s Elan Vital Series Is A Morphogenisis Of Color, Consciousness, and Life
Looking at Michael Page‘s flowing paintings makes me wish he would paint a tsunami and it envelop me in it’s juicy swirling electrical colors. Here is a preview of his upcoming exhibition Élan Vital at White Walls in San Francisco. The meaning of the series title, Elan Vital, explains the morphing electric imagery seen in the artwork: Élan vital was coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in his 1907 book Creative Evolution, in which he addresses the question of self-organisation and spontaneous morphogenesis of things in an increasingly complex ...
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Art In The Era Of The Internet >>> Video On Impact Of Kickstarter, Creative Commons, and Creators Project
From PBS Arts’ Off Book web series, comes an episode examining how “the internet has intensified connections between people across the planet. [The] episode takes a look at the impact of this new interconnectivity on the art world. Traditional funding models are dissolving, new forms of expressing ownership have arisen to accomodate for remix culture, and artists are finding ways to connect physical art experiences and traditions to the internet. In the digital era, the experience of art from the ...