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Showing posts with label Figure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Figure. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Vida Simon, Artist



"The Montreal-based artist creates gentle, introspective drawing installation/performances where we witness her artistic process live and in progress. She literally embodies her own art, working with practices of drawing, writing, object making, movement, and sound. " - source is ART 21.  Link here for more.

Christian Holstad, Artist




"Christian Holstad’s erased newsprint photographs, known collectively as the Erasurehead series, began as a way of killing time. Working as a waiter in a restaurant after graduation from art college, Holstad began to erase the images in newspapers while waiting for customers, finding that the action of rubbing out became a way of probing the complex depths of each image. Erasing is a kind of negative drawing: its marks are gestural, reminiscent of the physical action of the artist’s hand and arm, and yet their residue is a kind of blankness. Photographs in newspapers are used to widen the implications of the stories they accompany through the willful ambiguity of imagery: they say more than they mean."


Image and text source link here.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Cendrine Rovin, Artist






Link here to see more images and read an interview with the artist.

Link here for artist's website and to watch a video of a work in progress.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Kiki Smith, Artist
















Dowry Cloth, human hair and sheep wool, 1990





Link here to read an interview printed in Journal of Contemporary Art.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Maurizio Anzeri, Artist








"Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension where history and future converge. The image used in Round Midnight is an early 20th century ‘glamour shot’ that at the time would have been considered titillating for both the girl’s nudity and ethnicity. Anzeri’s delicately stitched veil recasts the figure with an uncomfortable modesty, overlaying a past generation’s cross-cultural anxieties with an allusion to our own."

Image and text source Saatchi Gallery.  Link here