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DAF Group Feature: Vol. 169

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Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature the work of Sofia Bonati, Amy Gesner, Chrystal Wagner, Lisa Kristine, Izumi Kato, Jonathan Nyik Fui, Mike Dargas, Nazar Bilyk and a time lapse video of the making of Etnias (Ethnicities), a larger-than-life work created by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The 3,000 square metre mural depicts Indigenous faces from the five continents, and was created at Porto Maravilha in Rio.

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Video: Lost Paradise: Anish Kapoor by NOWNESS

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Lost Paradise: Anish Kapoor – Smart Talk #2

A playful beginner’s guide to the award-winning British-Indian sculptor’s work.


The latest installment of their humorous instructional art series, Lost Paradise, Paris-based directors Virgile Texier and Jules Theret show us how anyone can be an art expert in the age of at-your-fingertips connectivity. Aided by an on-the-spot web search, two inquisitive gallery goers reel off a beginner’s guide to the vast sculptures of Turner Prize winner Anish Kapoor.  Video is in French with English subtitles.

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James Oberschlake: Painting / Mixed Media

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James Oberschlake - Bestial, Oil and collage on board, 16 x 12 After some attention as a book illustrator in the late nineties, Ohio-based artist James Oberschlake returned to school and received his MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 2011. He is the founder and director of an online resource for American figurative art called Figure50, which features one artist from every state in the U.S. on a rotating basis. His time is currently divided between managing Figure50, painting nearly full time, and exploring the natural surroundings along the Ohio River. James recently returned from an extended visit to his wife’s home country, Thailand,  and suspects that the strange sights there will begin to filter into his new work. (Image left: James Oberschlake – Bestial, oil and collage on board, 16 x 12)

Artist Statement:

I nearly always begin an image by drawing loose forms with paint. Very quickly I will start to make associations with those forms and will then begin a lengthy process of continually reexamining and redefining the anatomical and spatial possibilities suggested by previous marks. A large portion of my intent, and a source of much enjoyment, is simply to explore a diverse range of textures and color/value relationships while the realization of subject matter morphs into focus. In utilizing a free association approach, layers of content build as a narrative in conjunction with the physical application of materials. With no initial objective for content, the stories found in the work typically remain ambiguous, allowing for a raw, emotional response and a variety of personal interpretations.

To see more works by James Oberschlake, visit oberschlake.com and connect with him on Instagram.

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 155

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Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.