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DAF Group Feature: Vol. 94

February 6, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Davis Murphy, Drew Merritt, Kate MccGwire, Kikyz Trece, Lenette Newell, Nicholas O'Leary, Piers Secunda, Rogelio Manzoa, Shawn Huckins

Hybrid Thinking @ Jonathan Levine Gallery

February 2, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

A selection of work from Jonathan Levine Gallery’s exhibition “Hybrid Thinking”. Curated by Wooster Collective’s Marc + Sara Schiller, the show show features work by: Dal, from Beijing, China (now based in Cape Town, South Africa); Herakut, a duo based in Frankfurt, Germany; Hyuro, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently based in Valencia, Spain; Roa, based in Belgium; Sit, from the Netherlands; and Vinz, born and based in Valencia, Spain.

“With a wide array of discipline, medium, style and cultural influence, work by the six artists in this exhibition is thematically cohesive in its related subject matter—through figurative pairings of human and animal elements, the artists explore concepts of instinct, identity and metamorphoses. In the curators’ words: “Hybrid Thinking refers to the current zeitgeist of our time: disparate cultures coming together to create something completely new. Though from distinctly different cultural backgrounds, these artists share an understanding of our cities, of the human condition and our complex relationship with nature.”

“Hybrid Thinking” runs through February 11, 2012. To see more, visit JonathanLevineGallery.com.



Filed Under: ART, Collage, Digital, Drawing, Mixed Media, Street Art Tagged With: DAL, Herakut, Hybrid Thinking, Hyuro, Jonathan Levine Gallery, ROA, SIT, Vinz

DAF Group Feature: Vol 93

January 30, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Another Monday Mixx – enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Collage, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Andrew Salgado, Cil Laurens, Gabriel Neale, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Helen Warner, Jin Young Yu, Joel Cooper, Shichigoro, Vesna Pešić

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 92

January 24, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – on Tuesday – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Cally Whitham, Deborah Butterfield, Eoin Ryan, Michela Riba, Mirkow Gastow, Penny Putnam and Shauna Holiman, Rachel Meuler, Rodriguez Baptista, Shauna Richardson

Art-e-Facts: 5 Random Art Facts – XXII

January 17, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

1. Art Competitions were part of the modern Olympic Games from 1912 to 1952. Medals were awarded for works of art inspired by sport, divided into five categories: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture.

The juried art competitions were abandoned in 1954 because artists were considered to be professionals, while Olympic athletes were required to be amateurs. Since 1956, the Olympic Cultural Programme has taken their place. (wikipedia)

2. The famous marble sculpture Pietà created between 1498 and 1500 by Michelangelo Buonarroti, was the only work he ever signed. The story goes that Michelangelo overheard a pilgrim say that the work was created by rival sculptor Christoforo Solari. In a fit of rage, Michelangelo took hammer and chisel and scrawled: “Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine, made this” across Mary’s breast.  According to Italian Biographer Giorgio Vasari, he later regretted his passionate outburst of pride and determined to never again sign a piece of his work.(BBC)

3. Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since around Neolithic times (about 10,700 to 9400 BC). Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on various parts of his body. These tattoos were thought to be a form of healing because of their placement which resembles acupuncture. Other mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the second millennium BC have been discovered, such as the Mummy of Amunet from ancient Egypt and the mummies at Pazyryk on the Ukok Plateau. (wikipedia)

4. Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and so on. Commonly an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers. Each layer is sealed with varnishes (often multiple coats) until the “stuck on” appearance disappears and the result looks like painting or inlay work. The traditional technique used 30–40 layers of varnish which were then sanded to a polished finish. This was known in 18th century England as the art of Japanning (Asian lacquer work) after its presumed origins. (wikipedia)

5. Corbis Corporation, privately owned by Bill Gates, was founded in 1989 and owns the licensing rights to over 100 million digital images and 500,000 video clips. Gates started the company with the belief that people would someday decorate their homes with a revolving display of digital artwork using digital frames. Corbis’s collections include historical and editorial images from photojournalists, museums, and cultural institutions including Andy Warhol Foundation, Ansel Adams, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Gallery, London, The State Hermitage Museum, Christie’s Images, and the Bettmann, Hulton-Deutsch, Sygma and Brett Weston collections, and others. (Wikipedia, New York Times)

Filed Under: ART, Art History, Body Art, Collage, Digital, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Bill Gates, Corbis, Decoupage, Michelangelo, Olympics, Pieta, Tattoing

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 91

January 16, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Alex Kanevsky, Cybercraft Robots, Dennis Wojtkiewicz, elizabeth sillard, Kareena Zerefos, Monica Fernandez, Ryan Bubnis, Sean Madden, Serge Salat

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 90

January 9, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your 90th Monday Mixx!  Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: AJ Frena, Bethany Krull, Cathie Bleck, Jared Joslin, Jee Hwang, Jeff Huntington, Kaspian Shore, Poonam Mistry, Sergey Dikovsky

Loretta Lux: Photography

January 6, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Born in Dresden in 1969, Loretta Lux left East Germany in 1989 and from 1990-1996 studied painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. In 1999, she began taking photographs.

“Her subjects, with gazes ambiguously empty yet psychologically activated, assume formal poses and appear in calculated garb and hairstyles. Employing photography, painting, and computer manipulation, Lux alters the images, extracting extraneous details, distorting proportions, and setting the children against mediated backgrounds that exist somewhere between Old Master paintings and studio-portrait backdrops.”

Lux’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the globe and is included in the collections of major galleries and museums including: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco MoMA, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and others. In 2005 she received the Infinity Award for Art from The International Center of Photography in New York.

Lux currently lives and works in Monaco and is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York and Torch Gallery in Amsterdam.

To see more, visit LorettaLux.de.



Sources: Guggenheim

Filed Under: ART, Digital, Photography Tagged With: German Art, Loretta Lux, Monaco Art

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 89

January 2, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your first Monday Mixx of 2012 – Happy New Year everyone!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Ben Tolman, Gerhard Lentink, Matt Rota, Nicoletta Pagano, Philipp Zurmohle, Viktor Miller-Gausa, Vladimir Stankovic, Xavier Robles de Medina, Yeong-Deok Seo

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 87

December 19, 2011 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy!!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Adam Tredowski, Bathsheba Grossman, C215, Can Pekdemir, Heather Gillespie, Linnea Strid, Liz Tran, Robert Steven Connett, Simon McWilliams

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