In the digital age we are surrounded by perfect images, we keep them in our pockets and everywhere around us. The proliferation of perfect images has lead digital some digital artists to either manually or programmatically “glitch” the image.
Brazilian-born and berlin based painter Harding Meyer is painting larger than life portraits, and glitching them, not with code, but with brush strokes.
I have an intense love of maps, I always have. There is something about them that triggers my imagination, makes me think about where I am going and where I have been; and the dark corners where the monsters are.
Edward Fairburn is a portrait artist from Southampton, UK. His essential surface is the printed map. From that surface, he integrates human portraiture into the topography of the location. I connect to his work on a personal level because I see the portraits and the locales blending together, just as a city informs a personality and a personality impacts a city. Our location and origin inform our identity in ways that most are only slightly aware of.
Vaughn Belak is an artist out of Orlando, Florida. Over the years, he has been a touring musician and is a working artist, painting whimsical but dark characters with a with a solid dash if pop-culture. Vaughn and I knew each other in our misspent youth and recently had an opportunity to reconnect thanks to the technological terror of social media.
I first Evan during a Maker Faire at the now-on-hiatus Bull City Cider. He’s a very gracious fellow with an epic beard. We talked for a little at about his process and how came to be inspired to make the work he does. His work is instinctive and concise, his drawings of animals have lite anthropomorphized expressions and poses. My favorites are naturally his animal portraits of the characters from The Royal Tenenbaums which, unfortunately, have little on-line presence.
Have a look at this excerpt from his Wild Yoga poster, imagine track suits, disinterested stares, and you will get the idea.
Durham Artist Parasol B, is opening the latest show this week. These gorgeous constructions are encoded bits of sound represented by color and shape and vibrant motion. There are two series on display, Rachmaninoff, inspired by Mozart’s The Marriage or Figaro , La Wonkitania inspired by a slightly more psychedelic musical piece Wonkatania from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
The Carrack is an artist-centered, volunteer-run, zero-commission exhibition and event space in downtown Durham, North Carolina.
Past
July 7th – August 12th – ME|WE at Arrow Studios
06/2016 – The Carrack Community Show
01/2016 – The Carrack Community Show
11/2015 – SHVR: Traditional & Diverging Views of Beauty, Romance, and Darkness
05/2014 – interface | interference – The Carrack Modern Art
I once spent an entire semester in college writing an artist statement for a project that I never even presented, because my professor made me go back again and again and rewrite my artist statement.
The class was called Sex Lies and Everything Else and a was taught by my favorite pariah Robert Stewart. He was known for cutting through your bullshit artistic facade and forcing you to really examine what you were doing and why you were doing it; He was also known for making at least one student cry per semester.
So Robert, this one is for you; my Artist Statement for the Smartphone Art Show #interff, it is less than 140 characters, so it can be tweeted, and about as direct as I can imagine.
I’ve always been fascinated in how people view & project themselves. Mobile media allows me new ways to explore this. #selfie #privacy
I am now officially 4 weeks away from dropping off my work for the first gallery/group show that my work has been a part of in over 20 years. Nervous? Not really, but ask me again in 3 weeks while I am scrambling to get everything printed and framed.
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