Inspiring artist: Yasuki Onishi
Of course another excellent artist to look at if you're interested in the concept of negative space and ghostly memories is Rachel Whiteread. Check her out.
Images (c) the Rice Gallery.
Of course another excellent artist to look at if you're interested in the concept of negative space and ghostly memories is Rachel Whiteread. Check her out.
Images (c) the Rice Gallery.
All images copyright the artists.
Photos copyright the artists.
Artist Barry Underwood creates beautiful light installations in scenic locations and photographs them in the mists of the early morning or twilight. The lights adorn the landscape like gleaming jewellery in some and float like a vaporous will-'o-the-wisp in others.
From his website:
"These images are documentations of full-scale installations that are built on-site in the landscape. Using illusion, imagination, and narrative, my photographs explore the potential of the ordinary. I approach my photographic work with a theatrical sensibility, much like a cinematographer or set designer would. By reading the landscape and altering the vista through lights and photographic effects, I transform everyday scenes into unique images. Light and color alter the perception of space, while defamiliarizing common objects. Space collapses, while the lights that I install appear as intrusions and interventions. This combination renders the forms in the landscape abstract. Inspired by cinema, land art, and contemporary painting, the resulting photographs are both surreal and familiar. They suggest a larger narrative, and yet that narrative remains elusive and mystifying."
Images used with kind permission and are copyright the artist. Barry's site is here and he is represented by Johansson.
Image is of typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische presenting some of her ornate doily lettering and is copyright Eye Magazine.
He says: "The miniature scenes I depict are of locations on the edge of suburbia which seem mysterious or even slightly menacing despite their commonplace nature. The bottles add to the implied narratives of transgression. When found by the sides of roads or in the weeds near the edges of parking lots, empty liquor bottles are artifacts of consumption, delight, or dread. As art objects, they become hourglasses of sorts, their drained interiors now inhabited by dim memories.”
His work is currently on display at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, USA until 10 June 2012. The images are from McKenzie Fine Art.
Hello darlings. Apologies for my long absence.
Let us celebrate my return with the gorgeous Desktop Wallpaper Project, presented by the Fox is Black design blog. Every Wednesday they'll give you a high res wallpaper in lots of ready to use formats (iPhone, widescreen etc), as contributed by a plethora of designers, artists and photographers. Never again will I have to trawl through Flickr in the hope of finding something to inspire me... it's all distilled right here.
Featured image is by Shane McAdams, and he created it using only ballpoint pens, the clever thing.
The image here is of Angie Butler's Family Vespidae and is copyright Tom Sowden.
The exhibition runs 12 Oct - 4 Nov and more information is available here. Images copyright the gallery/the artist.
My website: http://www.vitrinedesign.co.uk
