Art is
via my uncle Timbo:
Art is
more expensive than sausages
more expensive than women
more expensive than anything
Tinariwen on the speakers.
Archive for the art tag
Club Of The Waves
Club Of The Waves is a wicked surf culture and art site packed with surfing lore from artist and photography profiles to surf history, environmentalism, charity and user forums. It’s a great information resource, I’ve lost countless hours of valuable surf time perusing its intimidating amount of content. Andrew is the site’s curator and publisher. I hoping to see the spirit of COTW transitioned to art shows and books.
I’m honored to have been recently included in the photographer profiles.
If you don’t already know about The Club, head on over and don’t make any plans, it’s addictive. I especially dig the Where in the World… feature. It allows you to search artists and photographers by location – google maps style. PDNonline just launched something similar, PhotoServe (albeit slightly more involved), today actually. In other words, Andrew is ahead of the tech curve.
Maya Hayuk
paintings by Maya Hayuk
I’ve been diggin on the art work of Maya Hayuk recently. Her kaleidoscopic / day-glow / geometric / handmade/ abstractness is really doing it for me, right about now. You might have seen her work on the front of Mollusk NYC, which shares a building with her studio. Incidentally, they call the building Monster Island1. Fecal Face has a great interview with Maya, from Feb’08 and Etsy just put out a video feature on Maya’s work as well. I was poking around her site when I ran into her photography, it turns out she’s an accomplished photographer as well. Peep these shots from a brazilian mag called Trip of the Beastie Boys, amazing! [via Wooster]
- two words: RAD! ↩
Natasha @ Vemod
hand-drawn typography by Natasha
I stumbled upon these incredible hand-drawn typographicalizations over at flickr’s hand-drawn type group (awesome resource). The illustrations are by Natasha at vemod.no. amazing illustration work, both hand-drawn and vector. Her site also includes physical projects (zines, rings and other non-digital objects) photography. Peep her photography project toy cities, insane. There’s a whole slew of this on flickr, but Natasha does it extremely well.
The Solitary Arts
The Solitary Arts has a blog and it’s good! Their whole site is filled with interesting imagery and the blog is no exception. lots of interesting posts, usually about goings-ons and what-have-yous. but always on point.
No rss feed though.
Serena Mitnik-Miller @ Mollusk SF
Serena Mitnik-Miller just had her art opening at Mollusk SF and her pieces are for sale through the shop. The work is gorgeous, what looks to be a combination of photography, painting and wood-block printing, with a presentation style to match.
For those of us that are geographically challenged, Mollusk has a nice photo gallery ’simulating’ the show, complete with piece groupings and wall-direction markings. Go to the Mollusk site and click on “art” (no deep link).
Beautiful work.
Droog79
various pieces from Droog79
Droog79 is a Bristol UK based surfer/skater/artist with some wicked surf and skate culture inspired illustrations, paintings, board art and the occasional photo. Amazing stuff, peep his collection of old school skates or some recent ‘board graphics. Dude is killin’ it, Hello Mollusk!
For more good fun, check out his flickrstream.
Your Mom’s In My Business
CalArts homie Kevin Lyons has a new show Your Mom’s In My Business at the HVW8 Art+Design Gallery in Los Angeles, if you’re in the area and dig on hand-made design, go check out the show. Kevin is a heavyweight:
Printed Ephemera and New Works by Kevin Lyons
Opening Friday, May 9th, 6 - 10 pm, Show runs May 10th - June 15th
HVW8 Art+Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Gallery open: Wed - Sat, 1- 5pm
Or by appointment:
323 655 4898Kevin Lyons is a 1992 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where he received a degree in film. After working for Nickelodeon / MTV as an Associate Producer, he co-founded the NYC based design firm, stereo-type which for two years was responsible for much of the graphic look of the New York City underground Hip-Hop and Acid Jazz scene. This included the logo design for the long standing NYC based club, GIANT STEP. Stereo-type’s client list also included Soul Kitchen, 555 Soul and the LA-based, Brass Recordings. After receiving his masters degree from CalArts in 1998, Lyons has gone on to work for Nike, both in and out of house, was the former Art Director of Urban Outfitters on two separate occasions, and has been Art Director for filmmaker Spike Jonze’s Girl Skateboard Company. He was also the original US Art Director for TOKION Magazine and maintains long-standing freelance relationships with Nike, Jordan Brand, Adidas, Stussy and Stussy Japan, Beams Japan, HUF, Nieves Books, Stones Throw Records, Commonwealth Stacks, and long-time friend and collaborator NYC artist, SSUR.
[via Juxtapoz]
Toward The Great Expanse
Art by Ty Williams (L) and Julie Goldstein (R)
Montanaro Gallery in Newport Rhode Island, is having an art exhibition called Toward The Great Expanse that features the surf/water inspired work of Ty Williams and Julie Goldstein. The pieces are beautiful.
The Montanaro Gallery site has what looks like all of the pieces from the show, up on the site, in nice big jpegs. Very thoughtful of them, for us left-and-down-coasters. the name of the show couldn’t be more perfect for the flavor of art.
[via Foam]
LA vs War
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Mear One rocks some wicked pieces in promotion of LA vs War, a 4 day art + activism even in downtown Los Angeles, April 10-13:
LA vs WAR highlights the travesty of a senseless war now going into its 6th year, giving LA artists a platform to exercise their freedom of speech. Hundreds of artists representing our diverse communities unite in delivering a universal message of peace and understanding, and offering resistance and opposition to the US government’s war policies.
Good art + Good ideas. The Ghandi piece, in the video, is amazing!
[via Wooster]
Ooga Booga + Nieves
drawing by Geoff McFetridge | larger view
Hey Los Angeles peoples, Ooga Booga is a cool little store downtown that sells independently published art books, zines, etc… by tons of amazing artists and authors including: Geoff McFetridge, Mike Mills, Aaron Rose, Chris Johanson, Ed Templeton, Kevin Lyons, Kim Gordon and many many more.
Ooga Booga is having an exhibition of the entire library of zine publisher Nieves throughout the month of March and each Thursday there will be a signing from 7-9pm. Geoff M. signed this past Thursday, Mike Mills signs on the 13th and Ari Marcopoulus signs on the 27th. go check it out!
[via Fader]
Pottok
Oh Snap! Old school calarts homie Geoff McFetridge just started a wallpaper company called Pottok and the first designs are his. Gorgeous stuff. recycled paper? √. water-based inks? √. no varsols? √. no chem waterproofing? √. Can you put wallpaper on concrete walls? I’ll take one of everything.
It’s so cool to see Geoff finding new creative avenues to put out his art, independently. go Geoff!
[via it's nice that via +KN]
